A simple UV-ozone surface treatment to enhance photocatalytic performance of TiO2 loaded polymer nanofiber membranes

S. Dilpazir, M. Usman, S. Rasul, S. N. Arshad*

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Abstract

Homogeneously dispersed titanium dioxide loaded polyacrylonitrile nanofiber membranes with increased active mass loading, Ti3+ surface defects and hydrophilicity were fabricated by combining electrospinning and UV-ozone surface treatment. The photocatalytic activity improved by a factor of ∼2 and the kinetics of photodegradation switched from pseudo-first order to pseudo-second order with increasing TiO2 content with a maximum rate constant of 20.7 h-1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14751-14755
Number of pages5
JournalRSC Advances
Volume6
Issue number18
Early online date29 Jan 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jan 2016

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