Mesoporous TiO2 core-shell spheres composed of nanocrystals with exposed high-energy facets: Facile synthesis and formation mechanism

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 8500-8508

  Liu, Baoshun ^a   Nakata, Kazuya ^a,b   Sakai, Munetoshi ^a   Saito, Hidenori ^a   Ochiai, Tsuyoshi ^a,b   Murakami, Taketoshi ^a   Takagi, Katsuhiko ^a   Fujishima, Akira ^a,b  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATASE TIO; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL SPHERES; ELECTROSPRAYS; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FACILE SYNTHESIS; FORMATION MECHANISM; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS TIO; N-VINYL-2-PYRROLIDONE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; PORE VOLUME; SPHERICAL CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE; TIO;

ACETIC ACID; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; SPHERES;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 79959805175     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la201547g     Document Type: Article

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