Abstract
To prepare the material for cleaning up the water polluted by the toxic organic compounds with poor polarity such the endocrine disruptor chemicals, we attempted to prepare the cation-exchangeable titania-pillared clay by the hydrothermal synthesis. White powder obtained by the hydrothermal treatment of the montmorillonite with titania precursor in water still had the cation-exchangeable property. Both TEM image and XRD patterns showed that anatase-type nano-crystals (crystalline size: ca. 20 nm) were incorporated in the montmorillonite interlayer space. The organoclay having titania nano-crystals (OCT) could be prepare by intercalating the cetyltrimentylammonium cations to the montmorillonite with titania nano-crystals (CT) due to the cation-exchange reaction. The adsorption amount of bisphenol A (BPA) by the OCT from water was about 6th times larger than that by the CT, because the OCT has higher hydrophobicity than CT. From UV irradiation experiment by 300 W high-pressure Hg lamp, it was found that OCT exhibited the higher photocatalytic decomposition ability for BPA dissolved in water than both CT and titania nano-crystal powder, which was synthesized under the hydrothermal condition. Moreover, the present OCT exhibited the high durability against the continuous UV irradiation.
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