SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISATION OF Mn

DOPED TiO2 NANOPARTICLES FOR

ANTIMICROBIAL APPLICATION

Submitted by
SHANMUGHA PRIYA G
18MPH021

Under the guidance of

Dr. ELANGO.M M.Sc., M.Phil ., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Physics
 SYNTHESIS OF TiO₂
NANOPARTICLES
TTIP (0.5N) +Deionised water (100 ml)
+Manganese Acetate

Stirred for 1 hour

Adding Ammonia solution drop by drop till desired pH

is reached, 0.1052g of manganese acetate is added
alongside.

Stirred for 3 1/2hours

Centrifuge (3000 rpm for 10 mins)

Calcination (4000c for 3 hours)

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 UV-VISIBLE INTERPRETATION

Fig:4 TiO2 Mn doped pH -6 Fig:5 TiO2 Mn doped pH -8

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 Fig:6 TiO2 Mn doped pH -10

• When dopants and defects are introduced, additional extrinsic

electronic levels can be located in the energy band gap of the
TiO2. UV-Visible spectra of pure and doped TiO2 are shown in
Fig. 4 ,5 and 6. It can be seen that with the pH of the solution
increasing the absorption and transmission energy increases
i.e. for pH of 6, 8 and 10 the energy gap is 4.0336 eV, 4.0600
eV and 4.1002 eV respectively. Thus the absorption edge
gradually shifted to the higher energy region in the
spectra(blue shift).
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 CONCLUSION
• TiO2 nano particles were prepared using wet chemical precipitation
method.
• The TiO2 matrix was impured with Mn2+ ions at of 5wt %. The prepared
doped nano particles with different pH were subjected to analytical
techniques for material confirmation.
• From the XRD analysis, it was inferred that the prepared TiO 2
nanoparticles are in anatase phase. From which we also attributed that the
particles were in nano dimensional state.
• The UV visible spectra shows a strong blue shift in band edge absorption
further confirms the nano dimensional state of the material prepared.
• The functional groups are analyzed using FTIR spectroscopy and the
absorption peaks in the region 400 – 800 cm-1 confirms the formation of
TiO2 nano particle. The peaks in the region 1600 cm-1 indicates the doping
in the nanomaterials.
• The Antimicrobial activity shows no effect on antibacterial activity with
variation in pH while there is a considerable difference in the antifungal
activity with increase of pH which is attributed to the increase in basicity
of nano material doped with 5% transition metal Mn.
• Hence from the present work, we can conclude that increasing the pH of
TiO2 nanoparticles doped with transition metals like Mn increases the
antifungal activity against Aspergillus which is recommended for indoor
pollution control using TiO2 nano particles. 5