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Facile Fabrication of Hollow Mono‐Dispersed TiO 2 Spheres in an Aqueous Solution
Author(s) -
Li Guangqin,
Liu Chunyan,
Liu Yun
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2007.01810.x
Subject(s) - spheres , fabrication , aqueous solution , polystyrene , materials science , chemical engineering , methacrylic acid , nanotechnology , copolymer , composite material , chemistry , polymer , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , astronomy , engineering , physics
A simple one‐step process was developed to fabricate hollow mono‐dispersed TiO 2 spheres with different shell thickness using methacrylic acid functionalized polystyrene spheres as a template and TiCl 4 solution as the precursor. The whole process was carried out in an aqueous solution. A plausible mechanism was proposed to elucidate the formation of the hollow TiO 2 spheres.