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Inside Cover: Spiky Mesoporous Anatase Titania Beads: A Metastable Ammonium Titanate‐Mediated Synthesis (Chem. Eur. J. 43/2012)
Author(s) -
Chen Dehong,
Huang Fuzhi,
Cao Lu,
Cheng YiBing,
Caruso Rachel A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201290188
Subject(s) - anatase , materials science , mesoporous material , amorphous solid , chemical engineering , crystallization , titanate , metastability , nanotechnology , crystallography , photocatalysis , chemistry , ceramic , composite material , catalysis , organic chemistry , engineering
Spiky mesoporous anatase titania beads have been fabricated and are described in the Full Paper by R. A. Caruso et al. on page 13762 ff. These unique nanostructures were prepared through a controllable phase transformation and crystallization process from amorphous precursor beads to metastable amorphous titania/ammonium titanate core‐shell structures, and then finally to anatase beads. The resultant spiky titania beads show great potential as working electrodes for high‐performance dye‐sensitized solar cells.