Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 2, Issue 29, Pages 5892-5901Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4tc00796d
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- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC [311529]
- Alexander von Humboldt foundation
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Because of its unique properties, titania (TiO2) represents a promising candidate in a wide variety of research fields. In this paper, some of the properties and potential applications of titania within rolled-up nanotechnology are explored. It is shown how the structural and optical properties of rolled titania microtubes can be controlled by properly tuning the microfabrication parameters. The rolling up of titania films on different sacrificial layers and containing different shapes, achieving a control on the diameter of the fabricated titania microtubes, is presented. In order to obtain the more photoactive crystalline form of titania, one during-fabrication and two post-fabrication methods are demonstrated. Interesting applications in the fields of photocatalysis and photonics are suggested: the use of titania rolled-up microtubes as micromotors and optical microresonators is presented.
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