Nitrogen doping in combination with the brookite phase or a mixture of TiO2 polymorphs nanomaterials can enhance photocatalytic activity under visible light. Generally, nitrogendopedanatase/brookite mixed phases TiO2 nanoparticles obtained by hydrothermal or solvothermal method need to be at high temperature and with long time heating treatment. Furthermore, the surface areas of them are low (<...

Anatase nanoparticles were synthesized from a titanium isopropoxide solution using a hydrothermal process at different pressures in an autoclave system while keeping the volume of the solution constant. As the autoclave pressure was increased from 1 to 71 atm (23 to 210 °C), the crystal size in the nanoparticles increased from 9 to 13.8 nm. The anatase nanoparticles were used to build dye-sensi...

The anatase form of TiO2 has been examined for the sensing of CO and CH4 at temperatures of 873 K. Though, there were differences in the sensitivity of the anatase sensor towards CO and CH4, both gases showed considerable resistance changes. However, in the presence of lanthanum oxide and copper oxide (labeled as ALC sensor), the sensor showed minimal response towards CH4, while still exhibitin...

In this work, the development of a new crystallization technique is reported, using nitrogen plasma (AC) to obtain nanostructured anatase and rutile from amorphous titanium oxide (TiO2). This methodology increases throughput and minimizes thermal effects. Nanostructured amorphous TiO2 was obtained by the sol-gel method and subsequently subjected to AC treatment, at a controlled pressure, applyi...

The prototypical photocatalyst TiO2 exists in different polymorphs, the most common forms are the anatase- and rutile-crystal structures. Generally, anatase is more active than rutile, but no consensus exists to explain this difference. Here we demonstrate that it is the bulk transport of excitons to the surface that contributes to the difference. Utilizing high -quality epitaxial TiO2 films of...

The influence of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (pure anatase and 15% N doped anatase) on the growth of Chlorella vulgaris, Haematococcus pluvialis, and Arthrospira platensis was investigated. Results showed that pure anatase can lead to a significant growth inhibition of C. vulgaris and A. platensis (17.0 and 74.1%, resp.), while for H. pluvialis the nanoparticles do not cause a significant in...

We use density functional theory to examine structure− activity relationships of small vanadia clusters supported on anatase TiO2(001) and rutile TiO2(110) surfaces. A thermodynamic analysis indicates that the vanadia monomer cluster can be stabilized on the anatase TiO2(001) surface in a catalytically relevant oxygen environment. On the other hand, vanadia clusters tend to aggregate into dimer...

−A study of the phase transformations generated by chlorine during the calcination of clays and kaolins is presented. The original samples and residues of the thermal treatment carried out in air and chlorine atmospheres are analyzed at different calcination times and temperatures. Sample characterization was performed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Xray micr...

A facile and efficient approach for the fabrication of mesoporous spherical aggregates of anatase nanocrystals is reported in this paper. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide was used as the structure-directing agent, and the interaction between cyclohexane microdroplets and the cetyltrimethylammonium bromide self-assemblies led to the assembly of 4-5-nm-sized anatase nanocrystals into spherical aggr...

Research has been carried out on the effect of adding isopropyl alcohol (IPA) formation nano titania. This study aims to determine IPA phase and particle size TiO2. In this study, titania was synthesized by hydrothermal method at a temperature 250oC with variety different additions, namely 0.2 ml, 0.4 0.6 0.8 ml. Samples were characterized using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Scanning Electron Microsc...