The use of nanomaterials in several application fields has received in the last decades a great attention due to their peculiar properties, but also raised many doubts about possible toxicity when these materials are used for some specific applications, such as water purification. Indeed a careful investigation is needed in order to exclude possible harmful side effects related to the use of na...

In this paper, we study synthesis and characteristics of mesoporous silica nanotubes modified by titanium dioxide, as well as their antimicrobial properties and influence on mitochondrial activity of mouse fibroblast L929. Nanocrystalized titania is confined in mesopores of silica nanotubes and its light activated antibacterial response is revealed. The analysis of the antibacterial effect on E...

Polyimides are widely used for the external surfaces of spacecraft. In low Earth orbit (LEO), they are exposed to atomic oxygen (AO) and to problems of electrostatic discharge (ESD). This work demonstrates that liquid-phase deposition (LPD) of titania creates a protective coating on Kapton polyimide that is effective in reducing AO-induced surface erosion and in preventing ESD. Adherent titania...

Synchrotron-based high-resolution photoemission, X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, and first-principles density functional (DF) slab calculations were used to study the interaction of NO(2) with a TiO(2)(110) single crystal and powders of titania. The main product of the adsorption of NO(2) on TiO(2)(110) is surface nitrate with a small amount of chemisorbed NO(2). A similar result is ob...

Catalyst layers (4-20 microm) of rhodium (1 wt%) supported on alumina, titania, and ceria-zirconia (Ce(0.5)Zr(0.5)O(2)) were coated on stainless-steel corrugated sheets by dip-coating in very stable colloidal dispersions of nanoparticles in water. Catalytic performances were studied for low-temperature (< or = 500 degrees C) steam reforming of propane at a steam to carbon ratio equal to 3 and l...

Widespread use of titania nanoparticles (TNPs) has caused a significant release of TNPs into the environment, increasing human exposure to TNPs. The potential toxicity of TNPs has become an urgent concern. Various models have been used to evaluate the toxic effects of TNPs, but the relationship between TNPs' toxicity and physicochemical properties is largely unknown. This review summarizes rele...

sulfated titania nanoparticles (so42-/tio2 nps) were synthesized using titanium tetraisopropoxide (ttip) by the sol-gel method. the structure and morphology of the prepared nanocatalyst was characterized using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and brunauer–emmett–teller (bet) methods as well as fourier transform infrared (ft-ir) and energy dispersive x-ray (edx) spectr...

Titanium oxide (TiO2 , titania) is well-known as an important ceramic material. Due to its versatile optical, electrical and photochemical properties, it has found extensive applications in high-refractive index devices, optical waveguides, photo-catalysts and photovoltaic cells. Particularly, in the form of very fine particles on the scale of ten to hundreds of nanometers, TiO2 , along with ot...

Nitrogen-doped titania nanosheets with visible light response were synthesized by exfoliating a layered titanate with homogeneous nitrogen doping.