title: Application of tetrahydrofuran dispersant in microemulsion for fabricating titania mesoporous thin film.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Jueshi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Jiamu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaohong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu