Morphology and photoluminescence study of titania nanoparticles

Colloid and Polymer Science

Volumn 289, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 943-953

  Memesa, Mine ^a,d   Lenz, Sebastian ^a   Emmerling, Sebastian G J ^a   Nett, Sebastian ^a   Perlich, Jan ^c,e   Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^c   Gutmann, Jochen S ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GISAXS; DSSC; PL; Sol gel; Titania

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITIES; DIMETHYLSILOXANE; DSSC; ETHYLENE OXIDES; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; GI-SAXS; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; METHYL ETHERS; MICRO BEAMS; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; PACKING DENSITY; PL; POLYMER CONTENT; SOL-GEL CHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE SIZES; TEMPLATING AGENTS; TITANIA; TITANIA NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM TETRAISOPROPOXIDE; TRIBLOCKS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ETHERS; ETHYLENE; GELS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN VACANCIES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; SURFACE DEFECTS; TITANIUM; X RAY SCATTERING;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COPOLYMER; DIMETICONE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MACROGOL; METHACRYLIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 79958285392     PISSN: 0303402X     EISSN: 14351536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-011-2421-0     Document Type: Article

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