Lanthanum-cerium co-doped titanium oxide material based on mixed rare earth carbonate and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of inorganic nano materials, relates to a rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide photocatalytic functional material and a preparation method thereof, and particularly relates to a method for preparing lanthanum-cerium co-doped titanium oxide by using mixed rare earth carbonate, so that the titanium oxide has higher visible light catalytic capability.
Background
The nano-grade anatase titanium dioxide has large forbidden bandwidth and good effect of degrading organic pollutants by ultraviolet light catalysis, but the relative content of the ultraviolet light in natural light is less (only 3% -5%), and the utilization rate of solar energy is low. In addition, the anatase titanium dioxide powder has small specific surface area and poor dispersibility, electrons and holes generated by light excitation are easy to combine, so that the light quantum efficiency is very low, the visible light catalytic activity is not high, and the wide application of titanium oxide is greatly limited. The rare earth doping can form a capture center to inhibit the recombination of photo-generated electrons and holes; forming a doping energy level to reduce the band gap of the titanium oxide; the grain size is reduced, the specific surface area of the particles is increased, and the photocatalytic activity of the titanium oxide under visible light is greatly enhanced. Therefore, research on doping titanium oxide with rare earth has been receiving increasing attention.
The rare earth doped titanium dioxide nano material can be conveniently prepared by utilizing an organic titanium source, for example, Zhongping et al, in rare earth lanthanum and cerium doped mixed crystal titanium dioxide nano tube photocatalysis performance research, introduced that butyl titanate is used as a raw material, and a Sol-Gel (Sol-Gel) method is combined with a microwave method to prepare rare earth lanthanum and cerium doped TiO2A method for mixing crystal nanotubes. Prepared TiO2The outer diameter of the nano tube is 15nm, the inner diameter of the nano tube is 10nm, and the shape of the nano tube is uniform; when the lanthanum is doped by 0.5 percent and the cerium is doped by 0.5 percent (molar mass fraction), and the calcining temperature is 900 ℃, the photocatalytic activity is best. Such as Guo Li, Wang Danjun, Lidong Sheng, etc. in La-Ce-TiO2The synthesis of nano photocatalyst by sol-microwave method, the spectral characterization and the activity research thereof are successfully carried out by using tetrabutyl titanate as raw material and adopting the sol-microwave methodPreparing nanometer TiO co-doped with lanthanum and cerium2The powder has a continuous broadened absorption band under 400nm, the efficiency of light absorption is greatly improved, when the doping amount of lanthanum is 2% and the doping amount of cerium is 0.04% (mole fraction), the co-doping effect is good, and after 15 hours of natural illumination, the removal rate of COD in the wastewater can reach 86.11%. However, the cost of the organic titanium source and the organic modifier is high, and the organic groups dissociated from the raw materials bring great pressure to the later-stage wastewater treatment, so that the popularization and the application of the preparation method are limited.
For this reason, many researchers have considered the synthesis of rare earth doped titanium oxide nanomaterials using cheaper inorganic titanium sources. Chinese patent CN1631521 by naval university, zhao qinghua, tan hua qin et al discloses a technology for preparing rare earth doped titanium dioxide by coprecipitation-calcination of titanium tetrachloride, and finally obtains a modified nano titanium dioxide photocatalyst with high photocatalytic activity. However, titanium tetrachloride has irritant, toxic and sour taste, is easy to smoke in the air, is corrosive, has very high hydrolysis reaction speed, is inconvenient to take in the production process, is difficult to accurately control the hydrolysis process, and is easy to cause larger quality fluctuation of products.
In Chinese patent CN106621807A, the Shanghan Yihong, Zhang Dan and the like propose a flue gas treatment method of catalytic reduction of a titanium dioxide nanotube array doped with lanthanum-cerium oxide and simultaneous desulfurization and denitrification. The desulfurization efficiency is 96%; denitration efficiency of 99.9%, elemental sulfur recovery rate of 97%, and N2The recovery rate was 98%. However, cerium oxide is toxic, has too low solubility, and is difficult to control in proportion during doping, thereby bringing difficulty to production and application.
Although many progress has been made in the current research, the rare earth doped titanium oxide always faces the problems of expensive rare earth raw materials, high product cost and the like, and the rare earth oxide is often difficult to dissolve in a common acid environment, so that the large-scale application of the rare earth in the field of visible light type catalyst preparation is limited. China is a big rare earth country, besides high-purity rare earth oxides, a lot of cheap rare earth resources such as mixed rare earth carbonate are also available, the mixed rare earth carbonate is a primary product in the separation and purification process of rare earth concentrate, the price is lower (main rare earth components are La and Ce) because the separation of different rare earths is not realized, the mixed rare earth carbonate is active in chemical property, and is easy to react with dilute acid to generate rare earth ions for doping, so the mixed rare earth carbonate is an ideal cheap rare earth doping industrial raw material. If the mixed rare earth carbonate is used as the titanium oxide doped rare earth raw material, the raw material cost of the rare earth doped titanium oxide and the requirement on the acid resistance of equipment are obviously reduced, but no relevant report is found at present.
To solve the above problems, TiO is economically and efficiently upgraded2The invention provides a method for preparing a nano catalyst by utilizing lanthanum-cerium mixed rare earth carbonate co-doped titanium oxide, and the method has the advantages of high photocatalytic activity under visible light. The mixed rare earth carbonate is produced in city of autonomous region of inner Mongolia, wherein lanthanum and cerium rare earth exist in the form of carbonate, and the mixed rare earth carbonate is environment-friendly, cheap and easily available, easily soluble in water, convenient in regulation and control of doping proportion, and remarkably reduces difficulty in the production process. Meanwhile, the method uses inorganic titanium salt with moderate hydrolysis speed as a precursor, thereby obviously reducing the pressure of post-treatment of wastewater and improving TiO2The stability in the hydrolysis nucleation process can obtain ideal visible light catalytic performance, and the cost performance of the product is improved.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a brand-new preparation method of lanthanum-cerium rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material aiming at the defects of the prior art. The invention overcomes the problems of expensive raw materials, inconvenient taking and use, complex preparation process, uneven nucleation and growth of titanium oxide, poor crystallinity and the like in the prior synthesis technology, and obtains the nano photocatalytic functional material with high degree of crystallization, uniform particle growth and positive response to visible light by selecting cheap mixed rare earth carbonate, regulating and controlling the constant temperature hydrolysis of inorganic titanium source, doping proportion of rare earth elements and calcining and activating processes.
The purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
the lanthanum-cerium-rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material has the advantages that the total amount of lanthanum and cerium in titanium oxide is within the range of 0.2-5 mol%, the preferable content of rare earth lanthanum is 1-2 mol%, and the content of rare earth cerium is 0.2-1 mol%.
The preparation method of the lanthanum-cerium-rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material provided by the invention comprises the following steps of:
(1) preparing a titanium dioxide precursor: weighing a certain amount of titanium-containing sulfate, adding distilled water to prepare 0.1-1 mol/L titanium sulfate solution, and magnetically stirring for 30 min.
(2) Doping lanthanum and cerium rare earth elements: under the condition of stirring, the mixed rare earth carbonate solution is doped into the precursor solution obtained in the step (1), so that the total amount of lanthanum and cerium and TiO in the mixed solution2The molar percentage of the lanthanum and the cerium is 0.2-5%, wherein the molar ratio of the lanthanum to the cerium is 0.3-3, after the mixture is fully stirred, the pH value of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 1-5 by using an alkaline solution, and then the mixture is magnetically stirred for 1-3 hours.
(3) Doped nano TiO2The crystallization treatment: and (3) placing the emulsion obtained in the step (2) into a water bath kettle, and carrying out water bath treatment for 2-8 h under the condition of magnetic stirring at the constant temperature of 30-90 ℃. After cooling, the emulsion is washed centrifugally several times to remove free CO3 2-、SO4 2-And (3) ionizing the obtained white precipitate, drying the white precipitate for 3-5 h at the temperature of 80-120 ℃, grinding the white precipitate to obtain a powder sample, and calcining the powder sample for 1-6 h in a muffle furnace at the temperature of 300-700 ℃ to obtain the lanthanum-cerium rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material.
The titanium-containing sulfate salt is defined as: titanium sulfate or titanyl sulfate.
Advantageous effects
(1) The method uses the titanium-containing sulfate as the precursor for preparing the titanium oxide, avoids the use of an organic precursor and a modifier, and obviously reduces the difficulty of sewage treatment. Meanwhile, the precursor is low in price, the hydrolysis speed is relatively slow, and the phenomenon that nucleation is not uniform due to too fast hydrolysis, which is caused by the fact that some titanium salts which are hydrolyzed rapidly are not the same as the titanium salts which are hydrolyzed rapidly, is avoided, so that TiO is caused2The catalytic performance is unstable. Which are beneficial to the industrial production, popularization and application of the rare earth doped titanium oxide nano material.
(2) The invention uses lanthanum-cerium mixed rare earth carbonate as a doped rare earth source, is cheap and easy to obtain, has no toxicity and stability, is convenient to take and use, is easy to regulate and control the doping proportion, and is convenient for more efficient production and application.
(3) The lanthanum-cerium-rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide is used, and lanthanum doping can generate a capture trap in the catalyst to inhibit the recombination of titanium oxide photogenerated electrons and holes; the doped cerium can form an impurity energy level, reduce the band gap of the titanium oxide and enhance the response capability of the titanium oxide to visible light. According to the invention, titanium oxide is modified by regulating the doping proportion of lanthanum and cerium and utilizing the synergistic effect of lanthanum and cerium co-doping, so that a high-performance nano photocatalytic functional material is obtained, and the use effect of the catalyst is remarkably improved.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is an X-ray diffraction pattern of lanthanum-cerium co-doped titanium oxide in the methods of examples 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a SEM image of lanthanum-cerium co-doped titanium oxide in the method of example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 3 shows the UV-vis UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra of pure titanium oxide and lanthanum-cerium co-doped titanium oxide in the methods of examples 1 and 4 of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a graph showing the visible light catalytic performance of pure titanium oxide in the method of example 3 of the present invention and lanthanum-cerium co-doped titanium oxide in the methods of examples 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Detailed Description
The invention will be described in further detail below with reference to specific embodiments and the attached drawings:
example 1
(1) 3.6g of titanium sulfate is weighed, 50mL of distilled water is added to prepare 0.3mol/L titanium sulfate solution, and then magnetic stirring is carried out for 30 min.
(2) Under the condition of stirring, doping the mixed rare earth carbonate solution into the precursor solution obtained in the step (1) to ensure that lanthanum, cerium and TiO in the mixed solution2Are 1.5% and 0.5%, respectively, and after sufficient stirring, the pH of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 1 with 2mol/L sodium hydroxide solution, followed by magnetic stirring for 1 h.
(3) And (3) placing the emulsion obtained in the step (2) into a water bath kettle, and treating for 5 hours in a water bath under the condition of constant temperature of 90 ℃ and magnetic stirring. After cooling, the emulsionRemoving free CO by multiple centrifugal washing3 2-、SO4 2-And (3) ionizing, drying the obtained white precipitate at 80 ℃ for 3h, grinding to obtain a powder sample, and calcining the powder sample in a muffle furnace at 600 ℃ for 2h to obtain the lanthanum-cerium rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material. After 6 hours of visible light illumination, the degradation rate of methyl orange MO can reach 97.99%, which is 71.67% higher than that of pure titanium oxide.
Example 2
(1) 1.6g of titanyl sulfate was weighed, 50mL of distilled water was added to prepare a 0.2mol/L solution of titanium sulfate, followed by magnetic stirring for 30 min.
(2) Under the condition of stirring, doping the mixed rare earth carbonate solution into the precursor solution obtained in the step (1) to ensure that lanthanum, cerium and TiO in the mixed solution2The molar percentages of (a) and (b) are 1% and 1%, respectively, and after sufficient stirring, the pH of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 3 with 2mol/L aqueous ammonia solution, followed by magnetic stirring for 2 hours.
(3) And (3) placing the emulsion obtained in the step (2) into a water bath kettle, and treating for 2 hours in a water bath under the condition of constant temperature of 60 ℃ and magnetic stirring. After cooling, the emulsion is washed centrifugally several times to remove free CO3 2-、SO4 2-And (3) ionizing, drying the obtained white precipitate at 100 ℃ for 4h, grinding to obtain a powder sample, and calcining the powder sample in a muffle furnace at 400 ℃ for 6h to obtain the lanthanum-cerium-rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material. After 8 hours of visible light illumination, the degradation rate of methyl orange MO can reach 85.78%, which is improved by 56.94% compared with pure titanium oxide.
Example 3
(1) 8g of titanyl sulfate is weighed, 50mL of distilled water is added to prepare a 1mol/L titanium sulfate solution, and then the solution is magnetically stirred for 30 min.
(2) Under the condition of stirring, doping the mixed rare earth carbonate solution into the precursor solution obtained in the step (1) to ensure that lanthanum, cerium and TiO in the mixed solution2The molar percentages of (a) and (b) are 3% and 2%, respectively, and after sufficient stirring, the pH of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 5 with 2mol/L aqueous ammonia solution, followed by magnetic stirring for 3 hours.
(3) Placing the emulsion obtained in the step (2) into a water bath,under the condition of constant temperature of 30 ℃ and magnetic stirring, the mixture is treated in water bath for 8 hours. After cooling, the emulsion is washed centrifugally several times to remove free CO3 2-、SO4 2-And (3) ionizing, drying the obtained white precipitate at 120 ℃ for 5h, grinding to obtain a powder sample, and calcining the powder sample in a muffle furnace at 700 ℃ for 4h to obtain the lanthanum-cerium-rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material. After 8 hours of visible light illumination, the degradation rate of methyl orange MO can reach 48.42%, which is 19.58% higher than that of pure titanium oxide.
Example 4
(1) 3.6g of titanium sulfate is weighed, 50mL of distilled water is added to prepare 0.3mol/L titanium sulfate solution, and then magnetic stirring is carried out for 30 min.
(2) Under the condition of stirring, doping the mixed rare earth carbonate solution into the precursor solution obtained in the step (1) to ensure that lanthanum, cerium and TiO in the mixed solution2Are 1.5% and 3.5%, respectively, and after sufficient stirring, the pH of the mixed liquid is adjusted to 1 with 2mol/L sodium hydroxide solution, followed by magnetic stirring for 1 h.
(3) And (3) placing the emulsion obtained in the step (2) into a water bath kettle, and treating for 5 hours in a water bath under the condition of constant temperature of 90 ℃ and magnetic stirring. After cooling, the emulsion is washed centrifugally several times to remove free CO3 2-、SO4 2-And (3) ionizing, drying the obtained white precipitate at 80 ℃ for 3h, grinding to obtain a powder sample, and calcining the powder sample in a muffle furnace at 600 ℃ for 2h to obtain the lanthanum-cerium rare earth element co-doped titanium oxide nano material. After 8 hours of visible light illumination, the degradation rate of methyl orange MO can reach 64.46 percent, which is 35.62 percent higher than that of pure titanium oxide.