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Masih Darbandi1, Tesfaye Gebre, Lucas Mitchell
1Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Masih_Darbandi@Brown.edu James_Dickerson@Brown.edu.
Nanoscale
|April 25, 2014
Abstract:
We report the novel synthesis of nanoporous TiO2 nanoparticle ensembles with unique mesoscale morphologies. Constituent nanoparticles evolved into multifaceted assemblies, exhibiting excellent crystallinity and enhanced photocatalytic activity compared with commercial TiO2. Such materials could be exploited for applications, like organic pollutant degradation.

