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Photoinduced hardness change on TiO2 single crystal surfaces

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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume -, Issue 25, Pages 3735-3737

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b903084k

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  1. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

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The dynamic hardness of rutile TiO2 single crystal surfaces was investigated using a nanoindentation technique and the hardness increase was observed only in the near-surface region, possibly due to the volume expansion accompanied by the photoinduced high hydrophilicity.

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