Structure, Synthesis and Applications of TiO2 Based Nanomaterials
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 10764
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Interests: ceramic materials; cross-disciplinary integration; multi-scale systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Titanium dioxide represents one of the most widely used nanomaterials in contemporary applications, currently used widely in sunscreens, pigments, pharmaceuticals, and surface coatings. Being a versatile wide band-gap semiconducting oxide, TiO2 materials are the subject of extensive research toward new sustainability-enabling technologies envisaged in valuable energy and environmental applications. Titanium dioxide is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium and readily forms from a diverse range of precursors and bottom-up synthesis approaches. As the performance of TiO2 as a functional oxide is mostly driven by the nature and levels of expressed surfaces, the phase formation, dimensions, morphology, and crystallite growth habits of titania-based nanomaterials are critical in determining their efficacy in present and future applications. In particular, polymorph formation of anatase, rutile, brookite, and the recently reported bronze-type TiO2 is of great relevance in the study of these functional nanomaterials. The informed implementation of various synthesis methods is paramount in materials design. Consequently, studies which present the analysis of diverse TiO2-based nanomaterials in terms of their multiscale structure including aspects of polymorph formation, phase assemblage, growth habit and particle/film morphology, are an invaluable resource toward designing the functional materials of tomorrow.
Dr. Dorian A.H. Hanaor
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Keywords
- titanium dioxide
- TiO2
- nanomaterials
- structure
- synthesis
- polymorphism
