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Preparation and Evaluation of Hybrid Composites of Chemical Fuel and Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes in the Study of Thermopower Waves
Published on: April 10, 2015
Metal Oxide/TiO₂ Hybrid Nanotubes Fabricated through the Organogel Route
Masahiro Suzuki1, Keita Tanaka2, Yukie Kato3
1Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan. msuzuki@shinshu-u.ac.jp.
Abstract:
Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) nanotube and its hybrid nanotubes (with various metal oxides such as Ta₂O₅, Nb₂O₅, ZrO2, and SiO₂) were fabricated by the sol-gel polymerization in the ethanol gels formed by simple l-lysine-based organogelator. The self-assembled nanofibers (gel fibers) formed by the gelator functioned as a template. The different calcination temperatures gave TiO₂ nanotubes with various crystalline structures; e.g., anatase TiO₂ nanotube was obtained by calcination at 600 °C, and rutile TiO₂ nanotube was fabricated at a calcination temperature of 750 °C. In the metal oxide/TiO₂ hybrid nanotubes, the metal oxide species were uniformly dispersed in the TiO₂ nanotube, and the percent content of metal oxide species was found to correspond closely to the feed ratio of the raw materials. This result indicated that the composition ratio of hybrid nanotubes was controllable by the feed ratio of the raw materials. It was found that the metal oxide species inhibited the crystalline phase transition of TiO₂ from anatase to rutile. Furthermore, the success of the hybridization of other metal oxides (except for TiO₂) indicated the usefulness of the organogel route as one of the fabrication methods of metal oxide nanotubes.
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