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Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry of Nanosize Monosodium Titanate
Published on: February 23, 2016
Single-Walled TiO2 Nanotubes: Enhanced Carrier-Transport Properties by TiCl4 Treatment
Imgon Hwang1, Seulgi So1, Mohamed Mokhtar2
1Department of Materials Science Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstrasse 7, 91058 Erlangen (Germany), Fax: (+49) 9131-852-7582.
Abstract:
In the present work we report significant enhancement of the photoelectrochemical properties of self- organized TiO2 nanotubes by a combined "de-coring" of classic nanotubes followed by an appropiate TiCl4 treatment. We show that, except for the expected particle decoration, a key effect of the TiCl4 treatment is that the electron transport characteristics in TiO2 nanotubes can be drastically improved, for example, we observe an enhancement of up to 70 % in electron-transport times.

