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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 132, Issue 36, Pages 12605-12611Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja101810e
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- Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
- DFG in Germany
- Elite Network of Bavaria
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [104/08/0435-1]
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Ultrasmall and highly soluble anatase nanoparticles were synthesized from TiCl4 using tert-butyl alcohol as a new reaction medium. This synthetic protocol widens the scope of nonaqueous sol-gel methods to TiO2 nanoparticles of around 3 nm with excellent dispersibility in ethanol and tert-butanol. Microwave heating was found to enhance the crystallinity of the nanoparticles and to drastically shorten the reaction time to less than 1 h at temperatures as low as 50 degrees C. The extremely small size of the nanoparticles and their dispersibility make it possible to use commercial Pluronic surfactants for evaporation-induced self-assembly of the nanoparticulate building blocks into periodic mesoporous structures. A solution of particles after synthesis can be directly used for preparation of mesoporous films without the need for particle separation. The mesoporous titania coatings fabricated using this one-pot procedure are crystalline and exhibit high surface areas of up to 300 m(2)/g. The advantages of the retention of the mesoporous order with extremely thin nanocrystalline walls were shown by electrochemical lithium insertion. The films made using microwave-treated nanoparticles showed supercapacitive behavior with high maximum capacitance due to quantitative lithiation with a 10-fold increase of charging rates compared to a standard reference electrode made from 20 nm anatase particles.
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