• Titania (TiO2) has superior physic-chemical properties, making it structural stabile, non-toxic, highly photocatalytic active and of low cost.
• To Improve catalytic properties of TiO2 different morphologies, generation of defects with various synthetic strategies.
• Therefore it is important to study ordered mesoporous titania (OMT) materials which is difficult to synthesize due to the high electrophilicity of Ti4+ ion making uncontrolled hydrolysis-condensation and phase separation between surfactant template and precursor, resulting in rapid dense phase disordered materials formation.
• Based on the foregoing a need therefore exists for an improved process to synthesize an advanced material that addresses above mentioned issues.

• The present patent proposes an improved process for synthesis of ordered 2D-hexagonal mesoporous titania using cationic surfactant  cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), structure directing template Titania (TMC-016).

  Refer FIG 1 and FIG. 2 with respect to Table 1

PROCESS

The method comprises of the following steps:

• Preparing a first solution (Solution A) was prepared by dissolving 0.896 mmol (326 mg) CTAB in 0.162 mo/ (12 g) n-butanol to obtain homogenous solution;
• Preparing a second solution (Solution-B) by dropwise addition of 0.0324 mol (3.2 g) conc. HCl into 0.0147 mol (4.2 g) titanium (IV) tetra-isopropoxide under 30 min vigorous stirring
• Adding Solution-A dropwise into Solution-B under uniform stirring at room temperature and further stirred for 6 h to get a clear, homogenous solution;
• Pouring resulting clear solution into Petri-dishes with uniform thickness and evaporating it in hot oven at 45°C for 7 days to trigger self-assembly;
• Forming organic-inorganic mesostructure with hydrolysis and condensation of the inorganic precursor into a periodic mesoporous network;
• Calcinating the synthesized resultant sample at 350°C for 4 h in air at heating rate of 0.5°C/min to obtain 2D-hexagonal ordered mesoporous TiO2 (TMC-016).