Sutradhar, Narottam and Pahari, Sandip Kumar and Jayachandran, Muthirulandi and Stephan, A. Manuel and Nair, J R and Subramanian, Balasubramanian and Bajaj, Hari C and Mody, Haresh M and Panda, Asit Baran (2013) Organic free low temperature direct synthesis of hierarchical protonated layered titanates/anatase TiO2 hollow spheres and their task-specific applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1 (32). pp. 9122-9131. ISSN 2050-7488

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Abstract

Layered protonated titanates and corresponding anatase TiO2 shapes, specifically the hollow spheres, are the most important functional materials and have attracted much attention because of their superior performance. Here, a facile organic substrate (both as solvent or surfactant) free, low temperature aqueous solution based chemical protocol for the direct synthesis of 3D arranged hierarchical hollow spheres of protonated layered dititanate (H2Ti2O5 center dot H2O), is proposed. The spheres had a high surface area (as high as 334 m(2) g(-1)), and were prepared through hydrothermal treatment of freshly prepared peroxo titanium carbonate complex in the presence of ammonium hydroxide. Ammonium hydroxide is crucial in the formation of spherical arrangement of titanate sheets and the size of the spheres is tunable by changing the amount of ammonium hydroxide. The titanate spheres can easily be converted to pure anatase TiO2 with identical morphology on subsequent calcination. The synthesized titanate spheres showed very high removal capacity for toxic heavy metals like Pb2+ and methylene blue from aqueous solution. Corresponding anatase TiO2 spheres manifested as a brilliant anode material for lithium ion batteries with excellent cyclability. TiO2 spheres also showed good photocatalytic activity.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Engineering Materials
Divisions:	Nano-Structured Materials
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2013 09:27
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2013 11:26
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/2185

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