Molten Salt Synthesis of SrTiO 3 Using TiO 2 with Different Morphology as a Precursor.

SrTiO3powders were synthesized by molten salt method with homemade different morphology TiO2in the eutectic NaCl-KCl salts. The phases, crystallite sizes, morphologies and band gap of the as-prepared products were characterized using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra respectively. The photocatalytic activity of SrTiO3with different morphology was measured by CO2reduction device. The morphologies of the as-synthesized SrTiO3depended on the morphologies of TiO2precursors, indicating that the formation process of SrTiO3in the molten salts was mainly controlled by the template formation mechanism. The results show that compared with different morphology SrTiO3, sphere-shaped SrTiO3exhibit best activity loaded 5%Cu, showed the least Eg and crystallite size. The photocatalytic activity has something to do with the crystallite and the Eg with different morphology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]