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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 99, Issue -, Pages 6476-6481Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.251534898
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The energetics of the TiO2 polymorphs (rutile, anatase, and brookite) were studied by high temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry. Relative to bulk rutile, bulk brookite is 0.71 +/- 0.38 kJ/mol (6) and bulk anatase is 2.61 +/- 0.41 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy. The surface enthalpies of rutile, brookite, and anatase are 2.2 +/- 0.2 J/m(2), 1.0 +/- 0.2 J/m(2), and 0.4 +/- 0.1 J/m(2), respectively. The closely balanced energetics directly confirm the crossover in stability of nanophase polymorphs inferred by Zhang and Banfield (7). An amorphous sample with surface area of 34,600 m(2)/mol is 24.25 +/- 0.88 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy than bulk rutile.
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