Abstract: The tree-like polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanofibrous membrane supported titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalyst was prepared using an electrospinning method by adding tetrabutylammonium chloride hydrate as the organic branched salt. The surface morphology and structure of the photocatalyst were characterized, and then its adsorption and photocatalytic degradation performance on the removal of dye wastewater was investigated using rhodamine B as the target pollutant. The results showed that the tree-like PVDF nanofibrous membrane consists of trunk fibers (310 nm diameter) and branching fibers (5—100 nm diameter), and TiO2 could be uniformly distributed on the surface of both trunk and branching fibers. Compared with normal PVDF nanofibrous membrane supported TiO2 photocatalyst, this tree-like nanofibrous membrane showed much higher hydrophilicity and specific surface area, which increased the equilibrium adsorption of rhodamine B in water at room temperature by 5.4 times;it also exhibited better photocatalytic performance, and the degradation rate constants of the dye under UV and visible light were increased by 1.0 and 2.3 times, respectively.
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