Effect of ambient pressure on the crystalline phase of nano TiO2 particles synthesized by a dc thermal plasma reactor

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 581-590

  Banerjee, I ^a   Karmakar, Soumen ^a   Kulkarni, Naveen V ^a   Nawale, Ashok B ^a   Mathe, V L ^a   Das, A K ^b   Bhoraskar, S V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Catalytic properties; Crystal growth; Nanoparticle manufacturing; Oxides; Phase transactions; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OXYGEN; AMBIENT PRESSURES; ANATASE TIO; AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; CHAMBER PRESSURE; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DIRECT CURRENT THERMAL PLASMAS; METHYLENE BLUE; NANO-TIO; OPERATING PRESSURE; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; PHASE TRANSACTIONS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RUTILE PHASE; RUTILE PHASIS; THERMAL PLASMA REACTORS; TIO;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DIFFRACTION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HARD FACING; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAYS;

X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77955772282     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-009-9627-9     Document Type: Article

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