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CW-Laser-Induced Solid-State Reactions in Mixed Micron-Sized Particles of Silicon Monoxide and Titanium Monoxide: Nano-Structured Composite with Visible Light Absorption

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Silica–titania mixed oxides and composites have been broadly examined for their physical and catalytic properties, but titanium monoxide–silicon monoxide counterparts have yet drawn very little attention. Here we report that laser-induced processing of mixed silicon and titanium monoxides results in reactions yielding a nanostructured Ti/Si/O composite absorbing visible light. Changes in the composition of intimately mixed μm-sized particles of silicon monoxide (SiO) and titanium monoxide (TiO) induced by scanning of a cw CO2 laser beam along the TiO–SiO pellet surface were examined by FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. They are shown to consist in the evolution of TiO2 (rutile and anatase), titanium suboxides (Ti4.5O5, Ti2O3), silica and amorphous binary SiOx, TiOx and ternary SixTiyOz nano-phases which contain less or more O than SiO and TiO monoxides. These products are ascribed to concurrent silicothermal reduction of TiO and O-transfer between SiO and TiO due to interdiffusion of Si- and Ti-based species. These reactions taking place under transient localized heating are not inhibited by passivation shells around SiO and TiO particles. The laser-produced Ti/Si/O composite shows absorption band at 425 nm tailing up to 1100 nm. Its solar-light photocatalytic activity in decolorization of Methylene Blue is compared to that of the unheated SiO and TiO powders absorbing only in UV region.

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The results were developed within the CENTEM project, Reg. No.CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0088, in the follow-up sustainability stage, supported through CENTEM PLUS (LO1402) by financial means from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the “National Sustainability Programme I”.

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  1. New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, 30614, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Křenek, Jiří Tesař, Marie Netrvalová & Michal Pola

  2. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ASCR, v.v.i., 25068, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Kupčík & Petr Bezdička

  3. Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, ASCR, v.v.i., 16502, Prague, Czech Republic

    Věra Jandová, Dana Pokorná, Petra Cuřínová & Josef Pola

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Křenek, T., Tesař, J., Kupčík, J. et al. CW-Laser-Induced Solid-State Reactions in Mixed Micron-Sized Particles of Silicon Monoxide and Titanium Monoxide: Nano-Structured Composite with Visible Light Absorption. J Inorg Organomet Polym 27, 1640–1648 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-017-0624-7

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