Issue 13, 2011
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Soft Matter

Multi-functional hybrid protonated titanate nanobelts with tunable wettability†

Yuekun Lai,*ab   Yuxin Tang,a   Jianying Huang,c   Hui Wang,d   Huaqiong Li,a   Dangguo Gong,a   Xianbai Ji,a   Jiaojiao Gong,b   Changjian Lin,*b   Lan Sunb  and  Zhong Chen*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, Singapore
E-mail: aszchen@ntu.edu.sg, yklai@ntu.edu.sg
Fax: +65 6790 9081
Tel: +65 6790 6727

b State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
E-mail: cjlin@xmu.edu.cn
Fax: +86 592 2189354
Tel: +86 592 2189354

c Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China

d Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

We present the preparation of millimetre-sized liquid marbles with strong mechanical strength and good deformability using self-assembled fluoroalkylsilane functionalized titanate nanobelt powder. The strength and deformability of the marbles are adjustable by changing the intrinsic wetting state of the titanate nanoparticles. The excellent chemical stability of surface layer on the liquid marbles consisting of the titanate nanobelts provides the possibility for qualitative and quantitative chemical sensing under a wide range of pH values.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SM05412K
Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Mar 2011
Accepted
03 May 2011
First published
03 Jun 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 6313-6319

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Multi-functional hybrid protonated titanate nanobelts with tunable wettability

Y. Lai, Y. Tang, J. Huang, H. Wang, H. Li, D. Gong, X. Ji, J. Gong, C. Lin, L. Sun and Z. Chen, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6313 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05412K

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