Anatase TiO2 single crystals with a large percentage of reactive facets

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7195, 2008, Pages 638-641

  Yang, Hua Gui ^a   Sun, Cheng Hua ^a,b   Qiao, Shi Zhang ^a   Zou, Jin ^c   Liu, Gang ^a,d   Smith, Sean Campbell ^a,b   Cheng, Hui Ming ^d   Lu, Gao Qing ^a  

^a (NSW/ACT Node) ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials   (Australia)

^b Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM;

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORINE; HEATING; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; THERMODYNAMICS; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HEATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEAT; QUANTUM THEORY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HEAT; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; TITANIUM;

EID: 44449091492     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06964     Document Type: Article

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