Abstract:
The present invention relates to a photocatalytic material having a visible light activity which includes a tungsten-doped titanium oxide or a tungsten/gallium-codoped titanium oxide, and a divalent copper salt and/or a trivalent iron salt supported on a surface of the doped or codoped titanium oxide, and a process for producing the photocatalytic material.
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A carbon dioxide enrichment device includes first and second gas diffusion electrodes; an anion exchange membrane; and an electrolytic solution partitioned by the anion exchange membrane. The electrolytic solution contains solvent and solute, and the solute is dissolved to form a dissolved inorganic carbon containing carbonic acid, hydrogen carbonate ions, or carbonic acid ions. The oxygen is consumed by an oxygen reduction reaction on the first gas diffusion electrode, whereby, a dissolved inorganic carbon is formed by a dissolution and ionization reaction of carbon dioxide in the solvent. The dissolved inorganic carbon from the solute or the dissolved inorganic carbon is transported to the second gas diffusion electrode through the anion exchange membrane, and oxygen is formed from the solvent near the second gas diffusion electrode by an oxidation reaction of the solvent on the second gas diffusion electrode, and carbon dioxide is formed from the dissolved inorganic carbon.
Abstract:
A divalent copper salt and/or trivalent iron salt is supported on a surface of a metal ion-doped titanium oxide obtained by doping titanium oxide with metal ions to give a metal ion-doped titanium oxide with a valence band potential of 3 V or more (vs. SHE, pH=0) and a bandgap of 3 V or less between the valence band and an energy level of electrons excited from the valence band (including conduction band minimum potential and isolated potential). The metal ion-doped titanium oxide can be made to exhibit strong oxidative decomposition activity when irradiated with visible light based on the fact the divalent copper salt or trivalent iron salt functions as a catalyst for multi-electron reduction of oxygen.
Abstract:
Provided is an electrode for a microbial fuel cell, which is capable of generating high-power electric current in the microbial fuel cell and the microbial fuel cell using the electrode. Specifically, the invention relates to an electrode (as an anode of a microbial fuel cell) for a microbial fuel cell which contains a carbon-containing electrode base and carbon nanowires formed across the whole or a part of the surface of the electrode base is provided. Consequently, the electrode surface area is significantly increased and the affinity between an electron conductive microorganism and the electrode is increased. The efficiency of charge transfer from the microorganism to the electrode can thus be dramatically increased.
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A microstructure that can develop non-conventional and novel physical properties and a method for producing the same are provided. Ethanol is added to a mixture solution produced by adding a surfactant solution to a peroxotitanic acid aqueous solution to produce precipitates, and the precipitates collected from the mixture solution are let dried to produce precursor powders 5. The precursor powders 5 are calcined at a predetermined temperature. Accordingly, a microstructure 2 can be produced which is formed of monophasic Ti4O7 in nano size. The microstructure 2 of monophasic Ti4O7 produced in this fashion can be fine-grained in nano size unlike prior-art crystals.
Abstract translation:提供了可以开发非常规和新型物理性能的微结构及其制备方法。 将乙醇加入到通过向过氧钛酸水溶液中加入表面活性剂溶液产生沉淀物而制备的混合溶液中,并将从混合溶液中收集的沉淀物干燥以制备前体粉末5.将前体粉末5在预定温度 。 因此,可以制造由纳米尺寸的单相Ti 4 O 7形成的微观结构2。 与现有技术的晶体不同,以这种方式制造的单相Ti 4 O 7的微结构2可以以纳米尺寸细粒度。
Abstract:
To provide a method for inactivating a virus which is in contact with a photocatalyst material, the method including irradiating the photocatalyst material with light from a light source, and an article provided with an anti-viral property, the article containing a visible-light-responsive photocatalyst material deposited on the surface thereof.
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A method of preventing or reducing fogging of a surface of a composite when subjected to humid conditions includes providing a composite with a surface. The composite includes a substrate and a photocatalytic surface layer. The photocatalytic surface layer includes a photocatalyst. The method further includes subjecting the photocatalyst to photoexcitation to render the surface of the composite hydrophilic, wherein, after the photoexcitation, the surface of the composite has a water wettability of less than 10° in terms of the contact angle with water. The method further includes subjecting the composite to humidity that is sufficient to induce fogging of the substrate if the photocatalytic surface layer were absent.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a new photocatalyst sheet in which the substrates coated with fluorocarbon resin are readily weldable mutually, and also of the high antifouling and water-repellant property by coating the outermost surface of film/fabric structure with fluorocarbon resin containing a photocatalyst and a photocatalyst sheet comprises a substrate (2), a first fluorocarbon resin layer (3) coated on said substrate (2), a second fluorocarbon resin layer (4) coated on said first fluorocarbon resin layer (3), and a third fluorocarbon resin layer (5) containing photocatalyst coated on said second fluorocarbon resin layer (4). The melting point of the first fluorocarbon resin layer (3) may be higher than the melting points of the second and the third fluorocarbon resin layers (4), (5).
Abstract:
A photocatalyst composite is provided which comprise a substrate having particles of a photocatalyst such as titanium oxide, adhered thereon via a less degradative adhesive such as a fluorinated polymer comprising a copolymer of a vinyl ester and/or vinyl ether and a fluoroolefin, or a silicon based polymer or cement. Furthermore, a process for producing the photocatalyst composite and a coating composition containing the photocatalyst composite are provided.