Differently modified TiO2 nanotubes were used to achieve a drastic change in the selectivity of a photocatalytic reaction. For the photocatalytic oxidation of toluene, depending on the electronic properties of TiO2 (anatase, rutile, Ru-doped), a strong change in the main reaction product (namely benzoic acid versus benzaldehyde) can be achieved, and certain undesired reaction pathways can be co...

The structural stability of some nanostructured titanates was investigated in terms of their subsequent processing and possible applications. With the aim to investigate their mechanochemical stability, we applied high-energy ball milling and studied the resulting induced phase transitions. Hydrogen titanates with two different morphologies, microcrystals and nanotubes, were taken into consider...

It is empirically known that titanium dioxide nanoparticles stabilize the contact and frictional charge of host polymers to which they are added. However, mechanism for stabilization process has not yet been elucidated. In this study, polyester films doped with different crystalline forms were triboelectrically charged effect humidity on their charging characteristics was subsequently investiga...

Anodic oxidation is used to evaluate the effects of pure titanium in a sulphuric acid electrolyte in order to evaluate the relationship between the Ti02 anatase crystalline phase formation and anodization parameters. Multiple characterisation techniques were used and found that the thickness showed significant increase in TiOz at 70V, FESEM observed significant porosity at the arcing voltage co...

The scarcity of low temperature syntheses of anatase nanocrystals prompted us to explore the use of surface-reactive fourth generation phosphorus-dendrimers as molds to control the nucleation and growth of titanium-oxo-species during the sol-gel mineralization process. Unexpectedly, the dendritic medium provides at low temperature, discrete anatase nanocrystals (4.8 to 5.2 nm in size), in marke...

Abstract: TiO2 thin films were prepared by spray pyrolysis technique at a substrate temperature of 350C under optimum conditions. Films have uniform thickness varying from 0.3–6 μm and good adhesion to substrate. The films were characterized by XRD, SEM and EDAX measurements. XRD profile shows poly crystalline nature of films. As deposited films have anatase phase. Transformation from anatase t...

TiO2 films were grown on silicon substrates by atomic layer deposition (ALD) using tetrakis-dimethylamino titanium and ozone. Amorphous TiO2 film was deposited at a low substrate temperature of 165°C, and anatase TiO2 film was grown at 250°C. The amorphous TiO2 film crystallizes to anatase TiO2 phase with annealing temperature ranged from 300°C to 1,100°C in N2 atmosphere, while the anatase TiO...

A new methodology was developed to synthesize uniform titania anatase nanocrystals by the hydrolysis of titanium chloride in sulfuric acid aqueous solutions at 0-90°C. The samples were characterized by Raman spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electron diffraction (ED), and an Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The effects of the reaction temp...

Abstract Pure and Cu doped anatase/rutile mixed TiO 2 nanomaterials were fabricated through sol-gel method. The obtained photocatalysts characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS, PL DRS, the influences of doping on structure photocatalytic property studied. results show that when molar ratios Cu/Ti are 1% 2%, promotes anatase → rutile phase transformation. When ratio is 4%, transformation inhibited. ...