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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 511, Issue 1, Pages 202-208Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2011.09.032
Keywords
Mesoporous; Chemical vapor deposition; TiO2; Ostwald ripening
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- Key Item for Basic Research of Shanghai [05JC14058]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50672069]
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Anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) mesoporous microspheres with core-shell and hollow structure were successfully prepared on a large scale by a one-step template-free chemical vapor deposition method. The effects of various reaction conditions on the morphology, composition and structure of the products were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) technique and photoluminescence (PL) method. The results indicate that the product near the source was composed of core-shell structure TiO2 microspheres with diameters from 3 to 5 mu m. With increasing the distance between the source materials and the substrate, the hollow TiO2 spheres with 1-2 mu m dominant the products. A localized Ostwald ripening can be use to explain the formation of core-shell and hollow structures, and the size of the initial TiO2 solid nanoparticles plays an important role in determining the evacuation manner of the solid in the ripening-induced hollowing process. The surface area of TiO2 hollow microspheres determined by the adsorption isotherms was measured to be 74.67 m(2)/g. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis revealed that the O-H peaks of hollow structures have a chemical shift compared with the core-shell structures. The optical property of the products was also discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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