Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2009, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 335-339.

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Highly Photocatalytic Active and Easily Recycled Sulfur-Doped TiO2 Nanotubes

WEI Fengyu*, SANG Lei   

  1. School of Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, Anhui, China
  • Received:2009-04-25 Online:2009-04-25 Published:2013-01-21

Abstract: Sulfur-doped TiO2 nanotubes (STNTs) were prepared by the two-step hydrothermal method. It has the single-crystalline anatase TiO2 with outer diameter of 10–20 nm and length of approximately 200 nm. The pseudo-first-order reaction rate constant k of STNTs is about 5 times higher under UV-light and 10 times higher under sunlight irradiation than those of undoped TiO2 nanotubes.

Key words: two-step hydrothermal method, sulfur doping, titania nanotube, photocatalytic activity, sedimentation