Flower-like TiO2 nanostructures with exposed {001} facets: Facile synthesis and enhanced photocatalysis

Min Liu; Lingyu Piao; Weiming Lu; Siting Ju; Lei Zhao; Chunlan Zhou; Hailing Li; Wenjing Wang

doi:10.1039/C0NR00050G

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Flower-like TiO₂nanostructures with exposed {001} facets: Facile synthesis and enhanced photocatalysis†

Min Liu,^a Lingyu Piao,*^b Weiming Lu,^ac Siting Ju,^b Lei Zhao,^a Chunlan Zhou,^a Hailing Li^a and Wenjing Wang*^a

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^a Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, 100190 Beijing, China
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^c Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Abstract

Flower-like TiO₂ nanostructures with exposed {001} facets were synthesized by a low-temperature hydrothermal process from Ti powders for the first time, and they exhibited enhanced photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye under ultraviolet light irradiation.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C0NR00050G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 24 Jan 2010
Accepted: 17 Feb 2010
First published: 17 Mar 2010

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Nanoscale, 2010,2, 1115-1117

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Flower-like TiO₂ nanostructures with exposed {001} facets: Facile synthesis and enhanced photocatalysis

M. Liu, L. Piao, W. Lu, S. Ju, L. Zhao, C. Zhou, H. Li and W. Wang, Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1115 DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00050G

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