Application of tetrahydrofuran dispersant in microemulsion for fabricating titania mesoporous thin film.
A new strategy was used to fabricate titania mesoporous thin film by incorporating tetrahydrofuran (THF) into the CTAB/n-butyl alcohol/cyclohexane/water reverse microemulsion as a micelle disperser. Highly dispersed and congregated TiO(2) particles in the microemulsion with and without THF were observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), respectively. The photographs observed by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) show that a uniform titania mesoporous thin film with monodisperse TiO(2) spherical nanoparticles of ca. 20 nm was obtained using the microemulsion with THF.
Tang
Xiao
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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Qian
Jueshi
J
Huang
Jiamu
J
Wang
Hua
H
Zhu
Xiaohong
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