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A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity
The present study involves the fabrication of tungsten trioxide (WO(3)) nanofibers by an electrospinning technique using polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP)/citric acid/tungstic acid as precursor solution. It was found that the PVP concentration was one of the most crucial processing parameters determining...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30464974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40820-015-0042-8 |
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author | Ofori, Frank Agyemang Sheikh, Faheem A. Appiah-Ntiamoah, Richard Yang, Xinsheng Kim, Hern |
author_facet | Ofori, Frank Agyemang Sheikh, Faheem A. Appiah-Ntiamoah, Richard Yang, Xinsheng Kim, Hern |
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description | The present study involves the fabrication of tungsten trioxide (WO(3)) nanofibers by an electrospinning technique using polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP)/citric acid/tungstic acid as precursor solution. It was found that the PVP concentration was one of the most crucial processing parameters determining the final properties of WO(3) nanofibers. The optimum concentration of PVP was from 75 to 94 g L(−1). The average diameter of the nanofibers increases with increasing the PVP concentration, whereas it is decreased after sintering and orthorhombic structure were formed at 500 °C. The photocatalytic properties of the as-synthesized nanofibers were also investigated by degrading methylene blue and twofold efficiency was obtained compared with that of commercial WO(3) microparticles. |
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spelling | pubmed-62238962018-11-19 A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity Ofori, Frank Agyemang Sheikh, Faheem A. Appiah-Ntiamoah, Richard Yang, Xinsheng Kim, Hern Nanomicro Lett Article The present study involves the fabrication of tungsten trioxide (WO(3)) nanofibers by an electrospinning technique using polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP)/citric acid/tungstic acid as precursor solution. It was found that the PVP concentration was one of the most crucial processing parameters determining the final properties of WO(3) nanofibers. The optimum concentration of PVP was from 75 to 94 g L(−1). The average diameter of the nanofibers increases with increasing the PVP concentration, whereas it is decreased after sintering and orthorhombic structure were formed at 500 °C. The photocatalytic properties of the as-synthesized nanofibers were also investigated by degrading methylene blue and twofold efficiency was obtained compared with that of commercial WO(3) microparticles. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-06-04 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC6223896/ /pubmed/30464974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40820-015-0042-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Ofori, Frank Agyemang Sheikh, Faheem A. Appiah-Ntiamoah, Richard Yang, Xinsheng Kim, Hern A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity |
title | A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity |
title_full | A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity |
title_fullStr | A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity |
title_full_unstemmed | A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity |
title_short | A Simple Method of Electrospun Tungsten Trioxide Nanofibers with Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity |
title_sort | simple method of electrospun tungsten trioxide nanofibers with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30464974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40820-015-0042-8 |
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