The effects of n-type carrier doping by Li intercalation on magnetism in undoped and Co-doped anatase TiO2 are investigated. We have found that doped n-type carriers in TiO2 are localized mainly at Ti sites near the intercalated Li. With increasing the intercalation, local spins are realized at Ti. In the case of Co-doped TiO2, most of the added n-type carriers fill the Co 3d bands and the rest...

Materials with controllable multifunctional abilities for optical imaging (OI) and magnetic resonant imaging (MRI) that also can be used in photodynamic therapy are very interesting for future applications. Mesoporous TiO2 sub-micrometer particles are doped with gadolinium to improve photoluminescence functionality and spin relaxation for MRI, with the added benefit of enhanced generation of re...

The structural parameters, band structures and density of states of anatase TiO2 co-doped with Cu and S were calculated by first-principles based on the density functional theory. The results indicate that the volumes of the co-doped TiO2 increase due to the lattice distortion. The calculated X-ray diffraction pattern shows that the crystal phase of TiO2 is still kept as anatase after Cu and S ...

Anatase TiO2 nanocrystals doped with nitrogen and sulfur, where substitutional N and S atoms for lattice O, respectively, locate in the bulk and the surface layer of the crystals, were designed and prepared. As a result of remarkably lowered electronic resistance, the N/S doped TiO2 shows a superior high rate lithium storage capability to that of reference TiO2 nanocrystals, though the former h...

Three dimensionally ordered nitrogen-fluorine (N-F) co-doped TiO2 inverse opals (IOs) were fabricated by templating with polystyrene (PS) colloidal photonic crystals (CPCs) by infiltration. During preparation, the TiO2 precursor was treated with a mixture of nitric acid and trifluoroacetic acid to facilitate N-F co-doping into the TiO2 lattice. Enhanced solar light absorption was observed in th...

Niobium and antimony doped tin oxide loose-tubes decorated with Pt nanoparticles present outstanding mass activity and stability, exceeding those of a reference carbon-based electrocatalyst. Physico-chemical characterisation and in particular X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy demonstrate that this observation can be ascribed to the strong metal-support interaction promoting electroactivity and P...

We prepared of electrodes that consist of TiO2 with addition of tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) or fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) nanoparticles and the application of such electrodes on dye-sensitized solar cell. As compared to TiO2 alone, the addition of ITO and FTO nanoparticles resulted in an efficiency improvement of ~ 20% up to ~ 54% for the TiO2ITO and TiO2-FTO systems, respectively. This im...

Eu(3+),Tb(3+) doped and undoped NiO films were deposited on TiO2 by a sol-gel spin-coating method as the photoanodes of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). A comparative study with different structures including TiO2, TiO2/NiO and TiO2/NiO:Eu(3+),Tb(3+) as the photoanodes was carried out to illustrate the photovoltaic performance of solar cells. NiO could enhance the performance of DSSCs ascrib...

In this research, undoped and doped (Fe, Ce, and Ag) antibacterial coatings of nanostructured TiO2 films were prepared by a sol-gel dip coating method. Doped and undoped TiO2 films were excited with ultraviolet (UV) radiation to improve their photo catalytic activity. The antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria was studied using an antibacterial–drop test and colony count ...