Preparation and Photocatalytic Ability of Magnetic Nanosized Titania/Expanded Graphite Light Catalyst

By using hydrothermal synthesis method, successively adding tetrabutyl titanate and expandable flake graphite in 40 mL 0.95% NH4Cl solution prepared the nano TiO2/expandable flake graphite, which was then settled in muffle furnace in the expansion of 10 s under 800 ℃ and got nanosized TiO2/expanded graphite. Synthesized that with CoFe2O4 by chemical coprecipitation method finally prepared magnetic nanosized photocatalyst TiO2/expanded graphite. Magnetic nanosized TiO2/expanded graphite was studied on the photodegradation performance of methyl orange solution and the magnetic recovery after the degradation of methyl orange solution. The experiment result showed that in 50 mL 25 mg/L methyl orange solution joined 120 mg loading 50% TiO2 of the expanded graphite, exposed to ultraviolet irradiation for 1 h, the methyl orange decolorization ratio was 90%. When the load of CoFe2O4 in nanosized TiO2/expanded graphite reached 40%, its magnetic recovery efficiency reached 94.3%.