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EPFL2020

Synthesis of Pure Brookite Nanorods in a Nonaqueous Growth Environment

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mahmoud Saeed Qaid Mohammad Hezam

Brookite TiO2 is the most difficult TiO2 polymorph to synthesize. The available methods in the literature to produce brookite nanostructures mostly use water-based techniques for the preparation of water-soluble Ti complexes first, followed by a hydrotherm ...

2019

Synthesis and characterization of fluorinated anatase nanoparticles and subsequent N-doping for efficient visible light activated photocatalysis

Paul Bowen, Sami Rtimi

Fluorinated-titanium dioxide (TiO2-F) nanoparticles in a pure anatase polymorph was precipitated from solution by hydrolysis of titanium oxychloride, using urea and ammonia as precipitation agents and potassium fluoride as a source of fluorine anion. A fur ...

2018

Electron Kinetics in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Employing Anatase with (101) and (001) Facets

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Ladislav Kavan, Thomas Moehl, Aswani Yella

Two phase-pure nanocrystalline anatase materials differing in the exposed crystal facets (001) or (101) are studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and by transient photovoltage and photocurrent decay in dye sensitized solar cells. A larger chemi ...

Elsevier2015

Hyperbranched Anatase TiO2 Nanocrystals: Nonaqueous Synthesis, Growth Mechanism, and Exploitation in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Raffaella Buonsanti

A colloidal crystal-splitting growth regime was used in which TiO2 nanocrystals, selectively trapped in the metastable anatase phase, can evolve to anisotropic shapes with tunable hyper-branched topologies over a broad size interval. The synthetic strategy ...

2011

Synthesis of poly(methacrylic acid) brushes via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization of sodium methacrylate and their use as substrates for the mineralization of calcium carbonate

Harm-Anton Klok, Stefano Tugulu, Raphaël Barbey

This manuscript describes the synthesis of poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) brushes via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) of sodium methacrylate (NaMA) and their use as substrates for the mineralization of calcium carbonate. A C ...

2007

Si,C1-xO2 alloys: A possible route to stabilize carbon-based silica-like solids?

Nicola Marzari, Ajay Kumar

Novel extended tetrahedral forms Of CO2 have been synthesized recently under high-pressure conditions. We perform ab initio density functional theory calculations to investigate whether doping with Si can extend the stability range of such tetrahedral form ...

2007

Melting experiments of a chondritic meteorite between 16 and 25 GPa: Implication for Na/K fractionation in a primitive chondritic Earth's mantle

Philippe Gillet

Melting experiments at high-pressure and temperature were conducted at pressures from 16 to 25 GPa using chondritic starting material but with slightly enhanced Na- and K-contents while keeping the chondritic Na/K ratio constant. The experiments revealed t ...

2004

Chemical beam deposition of titanium dioxide thin films

Giacomo Benvenuti

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a widely investigated material for its biological compatibility, high dielectric constant and refractive index, chemical and mechanical resistance, and catalytic activity. Several different techniques are available to produce TiO ...

EPFL2003

An In-Situ High-Temperature Structural Study Of Stable And Metastable Caal2Si2O8 Polymorphs

Philippe Gillet

High-temperature Raman spectroscopy and optical microscopic observations have revealed a new metastable polymorph of CaAl2Si2O8 composition, which brings to four the number of known crystalline phases in this system. Similar to the metastable monoclinic ps ...

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