Efficient removal of aromatic pollutants via catalytic wet peroxide oxidation over synthetic anisotropic ilmenite/carbon nanocomposites

Characterization of FeTiO₃/C nanocomposites

Figure 1 showed the XRD patterns of samples made from different initial molar compositions of 1.0Fe : 1.0Ti : xCTAB : yTEA (x = 0, 0.67 or 1.33, y = 0 or 4.0). The sample obtained without the addition of TEA (denote as FeTiO₃/C-NT, NT for No TEA (y = 0)) to the initial reaction mixture contained only low-crystalline FeTiO₃ particles, as manifested by weak and broad peaks with low signal-to-noise ratio in Fig. 1d. At the fixed amount of TEA (y = 4.0), different FeTiO₃/C samples prepared with varying concentrations of CTAB (denoted…