Imaging Science and Photochemistry ›› 2005, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (5): 382-388.DOI: 10.7517/j.issn.1674-0475.2005.05.382

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The Preparation of Ag/TiO2 Polypropylene Membrane and Its Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Property

TANG Bin, ZHANG Qing-qing, XUE Zheng-lian, TAO Yu-gui, HUANG Xiao-dong   

  1. Department of Biochemical Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology Wuhu 241000, Anhui, P.R. China
  • Received:2005-04-05 Revised:2005-05-27 Online:2005-09-23 Published:2005-09-23

Abstract: Ag/TiO2 loaded membrane was prepared with TiO2 loaded polypropylene membrane as its carrier. Photo-reduction technology was used to reduce silver in AgNO3 water solution of a certain concentration. The antibacterial and photocatalytic specificity of Ag/TiO2 polypropylene membrane, TiO2 polypropylene membrane and active carbon polypropylene membrane was studied under room light and sunlight. The result showed that Ag/TiO2 loaded membrane exhibited good antibacterial property,because it had the activity of both the Ag and TiO2. No matter when it was under room light or under sunlight, there were no live microbes examined. By examining the photocatalytic specificity of Ag/TiO2 and TiO2 loaded membrane, it was found that the ability of Ag/TiO2 loaded membrane to photocatalyze methyl orange had been increased by 10% compared with that of TiO2 loaded membrane which showed that Ag/TiO2 membrane had good photocatalytic specificity.

Key words: Ag/TiO2 polypropylene membrane, photo-reduce, antibacterial, photocatalytic property

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