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The study of the applicability of ionizing radiation to increase the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 thin films

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The paper presents the results of studying the efficiency of using ionizing radiation to modify the surface morphology and structural properties of TiO2 thin films, and the effect of ion modification on the photocatalytic activity of Rhodamine B. decomposition. Structural and morphological changes in thin films were characterized by irradiation with doses of 1014–1016 ion/cm2 using scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, energy-dispersive analysis and X-ray diffraction. Modification by ion irradiation of thin films leads to a change in grains orientation, a decrease in their size, and an increase in the active surface area. Formation of grains preferred orientation at high radiation doses is caused both by grains rotation as a result of distorting and deformation factors caused by radiation, and by grains partial fragmentation. It was shown that in the case of modified samples of thin films, not only an increase in the rate decomposition reaction constant by 2–4.5 times compared with the initial samples, but also the degree of mineralization is observed. According to the data obtained, the maximum value of mineralization as a result of photocatalytic reactions for initial films was no more than 75–76%. While for irradiated samples, this value varies from 83 to 90% depending on the irradiation dose. For modified films, an increase in crack resistance and resistance to degradation to prolonged tests of photocatalytic activity is observed.

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This research was funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (no. BR05235921).

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  1. Laboratory of Solid State Physics, The Institute of Nuclear Physics, 050032, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    A. Kozlovskiy, M. Zdorovets & I. Kenzhina

  2. Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30, Lenin Ave., Tomsk, 634050, Russia

    A. Kozlovskiy

  3. Engineering Profile Laboratory, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010008, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

    M. Zdorovets & I. Kenzhina

  4. Department of Intelligent Information Technologies, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, 620075, Russia

    M. Zdorovets

  5. S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

    A. Berguzinov

  6. Laboratory of Magnetic Films Physics, Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 220072, Minsk, Belarus

    D. Tishkevich, T. Zubar & A. Trukhanov

  7. Laboratory of Single Crystal Growth, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia

    D. Tishkevich, T. Zubar & A. Trukhanov

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Conceptualization, AL, IK, and MZ; methodology, IG and AK; formal analysis, TZ, AK, DT, AT; investigation, AB, AK, DT, TZ, MV; resources, MZ; writing—original draft preparation, review and editing, MV, AK; visualization, AK; supervision, MZ, AK.

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Kozlovskiy, A., Zdorovets, M., Kenzhina, I. et al. The study of the applicability of ionizing radiation to increase the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 thin films. J Nanostruct Chem 10, 331–346 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40097-020-00353-x

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