Digital light processing of SiO2-TiO2 materials by combining ceramic slurries and metal precursors
One-step additive manufacturing of functional ceramics via Digital Light Processing (DLP) is still under development. The increased demand of such kind of materials creates new opportunities to investigate alternatives and new methodologies. In this work, a combination of photocurable SiO2 slurries...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repository: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/415714 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/415714 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/105008092777 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Additive manufacturing Ceramics Photocatalysis SiO2 TiO2 |
| Summary: | One-step additive manufacturing of functional ceramics via Digital Light Processing (DLP) is still under development. The increased demand of such kind of materials creates new opportunities to investigate alternatives and new methodologies. In this work, a combination of photocurable SiO2 slurries with Ti metal precursor (titanium isopropoxide, TIPO) is used to fabricate SiO2-TiO2 materials by DLP. Slurries with different solids content and metal precursor concentration were prepared. The obtained materials were characterized and evaluated as photocatalysts. The anatase-TiO2 phase was retained at temperatures as high as 1200 ºC in all cases, although for higher concentrations the rutile phase was also detected at such temperature. From the methylene blue degradation experiments it can be extracted that the SiO2 surface was fully covered when a 10 wt% of metal precursor was added, and the highest photocatalytic activity was obtained for the samples with 10–20 wt% of TIPO sintered at 1000–1100 ºC/1 h. |
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