Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, Modifications, and Applications

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) offer the possibilities to design solar cells with a large flexibility in shape, color, and transparency. DSC research groups have been established around the worl ...

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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

2.3. Evaluation of Photocatalytic Water Splitting 6507 2.3.1. Photocatalytic Activity 6507 2.3.2. Photocatalytic Stability 6507 3. UV-Active Photocatalysts for Water Splitting 6507 3.1. d0 Metal Oxide Photocatalyts 6507 3.1.1. Ti-, Zr-Based Oxides 6507 3.1.2. Nb-, Ta-Based Oxides 6514 3.1.3. W-, Mo-Based Oxides 6517 3.1.4. Other d0 Metal Oxides 6518 3.2. d10 Metal Oxide Photocatalyts 6518 3.3. f0 Metal Oxide Photocatalysts 6518 3.4. Nonoxide Photocatalysts 6518 4. Approaches to Modifying the Electronic Band Structure for Visible-Light Harvesting 6519

Semiconductor-based Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

TiO 2 photocatalysis is widely used in a variety of applications and products in the environmental and energy fields, including self-cleaning surfaces, air and water purification systems, sterilization, hydrogen evolution, and photoelectrochemical conversion. The development of new materials, however, is strongly required to provide enhanced performances with respect to the photocatalytic properties and to find new uses for TiO 2 photocatalysis. In this review, recent developments in the area of TiO 2 photocatalysis research, in terms of new materials from a structural design perspective, have been summarized. The dimensionality associated with the structure of a TiO 2 material can affect its properties and functions, including its photocatalytic performance, and also more specifically its surface area, adsorption, reflectance, adhesion, and carrier transportation properties. We provide a brief introduction to the current situation in TiO 2 photocatalysis, and describe structurally controlled TiO 2 photocatalysts which can be classified into zero-, one-, two-, and three-dimensional structures. Furthermore, novel applications of TiO 2 surfaces for the fabrication of wettability patterns and for printing are discussed.

TiO2 photocatalysis: Design and applications

There is a special reason for reviewing this book at this time: it is the 50th edition of a compendium that is known and used frequently in most chemical and physical laboratories in many parts of the world. Surely, a publication that has been published for 56 years, withstanding the vagaries of science in this century, must have had something to offer. There is another reason: while the book is a standard fixture in most chemical and physical laboratories, including those in medical centers, it is not as frequently seen in the laboratories of physician's offices (those either in solo or group practice). I believe that the Handbook can be useful in those laboratories. One of the reasons, among others, is that the various basic items of information it offers may be helpful in new tests, either physical or chemical, which are continuously being published. The basic information may relate

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Electrochromic displays based on nanostructured films modified with electrochromophores are capable of becoming high quality paper-like displays due to their excellent ink-on-paper optical qualities, fast response times, and low power consuming features. The nanostractured films are composed of nanoparticles of a semiconductor, e.g., TiO 3 and other doped metal oxides. The high coloration efficiencies of these devices is due to the use of organic chromophores and the umplification of the color change due to the extremely high surface area of the nanostructured film they are bound to.

Nanomaterials‐Based Electrochromics for Paper‐Quality Displays

In the absence of a dopant or precursor modification, anatase to rutile transformation in synthetic TiO2 usually occurs at a temperature of 600−700 °C. Conventionally, metal oxide dopants (e.g., Al2O3 and SiO2) are used to tune the anatase to rutile transformation. A simple methodology is reported here to extend the anatase rutile transformation by employing various concentrations of urea. XRD and Raman spectroscopy were used to characterize various phases formed during thermal treatment. A significantly higher anatase phase (97%) has been obtained at 800 °C with use of a 1:1 Ti(OPr)4:urea composition and 11% anatase composition is retained even after calcining the powder at 900 °C. By comparison a sample that has been prepared without urea showed that rutile phases started to form at a temperature as low as 600 °C. The effect of smaller amounts of urea such as 1:0.25 and 1:0.5 Ti(OPr)4:urea has also been studied and compared. The investigation concluded that the stoichiometric modification by urea 1:1 Ti...

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Synthesis of High-Temperature Stable Anatase TiO2 Photocatalyst

Coloured electrochromic “paper-quality” displays based on modified mesoporous electrodes

The fabrication of paper quality electrochromic displays based on the viologen modified TiO2 electrodes (Vio2+/TiO2) requires a cost-effective, energy efficient and rapid synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 with high yield in short reaction time. A straightforward and industrially viable process for the preparation of mesoporous nanocrystalline titania (meso-nc-TiO2) for NanoChromics™ display device applications by the use of microwave synthesis is presented here. Spherical aggregates of meso-nc-TiO2 were rapidly achieved using titanium butoxide, deionised water and common alcohols (isopropanol, ethanol and butanol) at comparatively low microwave power intensity (300 W) for 2 min irradiation. The material has been characterised by a range of different techniques such as XRD, Raman spectroscopy, SEM and BET surface area analysis. These materials possess surface areas up to 240 m2 g−1, which is significantly higher than similar traditional sol–gel or commercial samples. This meso-nc-TiO2 prepared was used as the working electrode for an electrochromic display device with Sb doped SnO2 as the counter electrode material on an ITO coated conducting glass. A working prototype of a NanoChromics™ display was successfully fabricated using this approach.

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David Corr

Papers

Nanomaterials‐Based Electrochromics for Paper‐Quality Displays

Synthesis of High-Temperature Stable Anatase TiO2 Photocatalyst

Coloured electrochromic “paper-quality” displays based on modified mesoporous electrodes

Rapid microwave synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 for electrochromic displays

Switchable Electrochromic Images Based on a Combined Top–Down Bottom–Up Approach