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Preparation and photocatalytic performance of fibrous Tb3+-doped TiO2 using collagen fiber as template

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Fibrous Tb3+-doped TiO2 were prepared using collagen fiber as template. Morphology, crystalline structure, surface area, element content, chemical composition and elemental chemical status, microstructure and element distribution of the prepared samples were characterized by using scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, specific surface area analysis, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscope and element mapping, respectively. The photocatalytic activities were evaluated by following degradation of methyl orange. The results showed that the fiber structure of collagen template was fully preserved when the calcination temperature was 500–800 °C. However, with the increase of calcination temperature, crystallinity and average particle size were increased, and the photocatalytic performance was decreased. For 2% Tb3+–TiO2 calcined at 500 °C, the degradation rate of methyl orange reached 93.87% after 6 h when a high-pressure mercury lamp (150 W) was used as the light source for photocatalytic degradation. Titanium tanning agent performance was excellent, the yield of TiO2 was high, and the fiber structure was presented when 0.2 mol/L citric acid/sodium citrate buffer solution was used.

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This work was funded partially by Students’ Scientific Research Project of Neijiang Normal University (NO. 16NSD-24) and Doctoral Research Start-up Funding of Neijiang Normal University (NO. 15B16). Thanks are due to Prof. Zeng Huang for language revision.

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    Ting Luo, Xiang-Jun Wan, Shang-Xuan Jiang, Li-Yuan Zhang, Zheng-Qu Hong & Jiao Liu

  2. Key Laboratory of Fruit Waste Treatment and Resource Recycling of the Sichuan Provincial College, Neijiang, 641112, China

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Luo, T., Wan, XJ., Jiang, SX. et al. Preparation and photocatalytic performance of fibrous Tb3+-doped TiO2 using collagen fiber as template. Appl. Phys. A 124, 304 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-1700-8

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