Tube-in-tube TiO2 nanotubes with porous walls: Fabrication, formation mechanism, and photocatalytic properties

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Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 445-449

  Xu, Xijin ^a,b   Fang, Xiaosheng ^a   Zhai, Tianyou ^a   Zeng, Haibo ^a   Liu, Baodan ^a   Hu, Xiaoye ^c   Bando, Yoshio ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

electrochemical properties; nanotubes; photocatalytic properties; semiconductors; TiO2

Indexed keywords

FORMATION MECHANISM; LARGE ASPECT RATIO; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; OUTER DIAMETERS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTY; POROUS WALLS; SELF-ORGANIZED; SEMICONDUCTORS; TIO; TUBE MORPHOLOGY;

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NANOTUBES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

NANOTUBE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POROSITY;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POROSITY; TITANIUM;

EID: 79952300350     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201001849     Document Type: Article

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