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TiO2-coated Hollow Glass Microspheres with Superhydrophobic and High IR-reflective Properties Synthesized by a Soft-chemistry Method
Published on: April 26, 2017
Application of microwave superheating for the synthesis of TiO2 rods
Vilas G Pol1, Yaakov Langzam, Arie Zaban
1Department of Chemistry, Nano-energy Research Center, Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, and Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel. vilaspol@gmail.com
Abstract:
A simple microwave irradiation method for the large-scale synthesis of submicrometer-sized TiO2 rods at normal atmospheric pressure and the boiling temperature of the solvent is demonstrated. It is emphasized that only 1-3 min of microwave irradiation is adequate to react tetra-isopropyl orthotitanate with ethylene glycol to produce rods of titanium glycolate [TG] with diameters of approximately 0.4 microm and lengths up to 5 microm. The as-formed TG rods, followed by calcination under air for 2 h, fabricated anatase (500 degrees C) and rutile (900 degrees C) titania without changing their rod-shaped morphology. The crystallinity, structure, morphology, and thermal analysis are carried out by several techniques. A mechanism based on microwave superheating phenomena is presented with the support of previous reports and several control experiments.
