Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) nanoparticles are widely used in cosmetics, sunscreens, biomedicine, and food products. When used as a food additive, TiO₂ nanoparticles are used in significant amounts as white food-coloring agents. However, the effects of TiO₂ nanoparticles on the gastrointestinal tract remain unclear. The present study was designed to determine the effects of five TiO₂ particles of di...

It is known that TiO2 exhibits good photocatalytic properties which could be used in various commercial applications such as water and air purification or photo-induced biodegradation of microbes. TiO2 occurs in nature in the form of three crystal polymorphs: anatase, brookite and rutile. For photocatalytic applications only anatase and rutile are of interest, however anatase shows greater phot...

Anatase-to-rutile phase transformation was studied in milled and unmilled samples. Ball milling was carried out in two types of ball mills, planetary and tumbler, with a ball-to-powder ratio of 40:1 over 2-48 hours. First, the unmilled samples &#10were heated in the furnace at various temperatures for different periods of time. The results revealed that the anatase-to-rutile transformation comp...

The degradation of alachlor has been investigated using sonolysis (US), photocatalysis (UV) and sonophotocatalysis (US/UV) using three photocatalyst viz. TiO2 (mixture of anatase and rutile), TiO2 (anatase) and ZnO. The effect of photocatalyst loading on the extent of degradation of alachlor has been investigated by varying TiO2 (both types) loading over the range of 0.01 g/L to 0.1 g/L and ZnO...

Electrical and optical properties of low-temperature, plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposited films of TiO2 have been studied; the source gases were TiCl4 and O2. The amorphous, as-deposited films had a dielectric constant ∼33 consistent with their measured density of 3.2 ± 0.2 g cm−3. Films deposited using a −41 V substrate bias contained the anatase phase and some rutile as evidenced from i...

Titania films were grown on BaTiO3 (BTO) substrates by pulsed laser deposition to create (001)Anatase||(100)BTO, (100)Rutile||(111)BTO, and (110)Rutile||(110)BTO heterostructures. The photochemical reactivity was evaluated by observing the amount of silver reduced by each film under identical conditions. The thickest films (100 nm) had reactivities that varied with the phase of titania and the ...

Molecular-dynamics simulations have been carried out to study diffusion of water molecules adsorbed to anatase-(101) and rutile-(110) interfaces at room temperature (300 K). The mean squared displacement (MSD) of the adsorbed water layers were determined to estimate self-diffusivity therein, and the mobility of these various layers was gauged in terms of the “swopping” of water molecules betwee...

The photocatalytic degradation of the emerging contaminant paracetamol in aqueous solution has been studied under 1 SUN (~1000 W m−2) presence four commercial TiO2 powders, namely sub-micrometric anatase and rutile, nanometric brookite P25 (the popular anatase/rutile mixture used as a benchmark most papers). rutile powder showed low activity, whereas, interestingly, powders outperformed terms t...

The solid-state hydrolysis and air calcination of aluminum-doped TiCl3 leads to crystalline anatase TiO2 that is stable on heating to 1000 degrees C, in contrast to control studies with related AlCl3 and TiCl3 physical mixtures that produce rutile TiO2 under the same conditions.

(18)O-isotope labelled titania (anatase, rutile) was synthesized. The products were characterized by Raman spectra together with their quantum chemical modelling. The interaction with carbon dioxide was investigated using high-resolution FTIR spectroscopy, and the oxygen isotope exchange at the Ti(18)O(2)/C(16)O(2) interface was elucidated.