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Copper oxide-titania catalysts with nanocrystalline mesoporous structure were prepared by sol-gel technique using tetra isopropyl ortho titanate (TiPT) as the inorganic precursor and amino-2 ethanol as the swelling agent. Characterization was performed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), fourier transformed infrared spectra (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), diffuse reflectance UV-Vis spectroscopy (DRS), and N2 adsorption-desorption measurements. It was found that CuO (0.025–0.1 mol ratio) has some effect on the particle size, surface area, pore-volume, pore-diameter, crystallinity of the particles, and crystalline phase of TiO2 nanocrystalline. The results indicated that 0.1 CuO-TiO2 had higher surface area and total pore volume among all CuO-TiO2 samples. The SBET value of 0.1 mol ratio CuO-load TiO2 sample is approximately similar to that of Degussa P25 while its pore volume (0.1198 cm3 g−1) is larger than Degussa P25 due to production of large number of pores. Therefore, the physical property of 0.1 CuO-TiO2 catalyst is comparable with Degussa P25.At 823K, the 0.1 mol ratio CuO-load TiO2 sample shows the phase transformation from anatase to rutile in the ratio of 1:1.1. The synthesized CuO-TiO2 nanocrystalline will be able to show photocatalytic reaction under visible light.
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Rahimnejad, S., Rahman Setayesh, S. & Gholami, M.R. A credible role of copper oxide on structure of nanocrystalline mesoporous titanium dioxide. JICS 5, 367–374 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03245990
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