Recently, under the circumstances of pandemic of COVID-19 much attention has been paid to titanium dioxide TiO 2 as bactericidal agent; however, conventional TiO 2 requires ultraviolet radiation or visible light to exercise its photocatalytic properties and its induced antimicrobial activity. In order to expand its applications directed at wide civil life, antibacterial TiO 2 being usable under dark conditions has been demanded. The present paper describes the powder characterization of newly developed potassium K and phosphorous P co-doped nanometer-size anatase TiO 2 powders using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM & TEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method (BET), fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), electron spin resonance (ESR) and chemiluminescence (CL). It was found for the first time that thus prepared anatase TiO 2 could submit much reactive oxygen species (ROS) even in the dark, which has close relation with bactericidal activity in light interception.
KeywordsAnataseMicrobial Activity under Dark ConditionsPotassium KPhosphorous P
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