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medical questions,go here: http://www.healthqas.org Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has attracted much attention because of its specific properties: photocatalytic activity, photovoltaic effects, long-term stability, nontoxicity, and low cost. The photochemical reactivity, physicochemical properities and application for TiO2 strongly depends upon the crystal structure, morphology, size and microstructure of the particles. Therefore, it is of great important to develop an effective method to synthesize TiO2 with controllable phases and morphologies and it has been an impertant research focus in the field of materials and photocatalysis. The the transformation between different phases has been achieved by adding different additive in the reaction system. The mechanism of transformation has been studied on the basis of experiments and the effect of mixed phases on the photocatalytic activities was also studied. Besides the work on the phase control of TiO2, we synthesized nanostructured titanates with different morphologies such as nanoflakes, nanotubes, and nanowires by a simple solvothermal treatment of commercial anatase TiO2 of work was about the transformation from titanate to TiO2, and TiO2 with different morphologies was synthesized by different methods based on titanate nanofibers. The details are listed as follows:1. Microemulsion-mediated solvothermal synthesis of crystalline TiO2 with controllable phases and the study on the formation mechanism.We adopted a reverse microemulsion-mediated (W/O) solvothermal synthetic method, and TiO2 nanocrystals with a tunable anatase/rutile ratio were successfully prepared. Titanium trichloride was chosen as the titanium source, which could be easily manipulated, and the ratio of anatase to rutile and morphologies in mixed-phase TiO2 nanocrystals were able to be easily tuned by simply changing the amount of additive. In route one, urea acted as the "in situ pH adjusting reagent", promoting the formation of anatase. The contents of anatase in the products can be controlled by simply changing the amount of urea in the aqueous phase. A possible explanation of formation mechanism was proposed, and 52.4% rutile presented the highest photocatalytic activity for decomposition of Rhodamine B, due to the existence of a synergistic effect between anatase and rutile. promotong the formation of anatase. The contents of anatase in the products can be hydrothermal synthesis of crystalline TiO2 with controllable phases and the study on the formation mechanism.First, in the tartaric acid-assisted alkaline hydrothermal synthetic system, the ratio of anatase to brookite and morphologies in TiO2 nanocrystals were able to be easily tuned by simply changing the amount of tartaric acid. Tartaric acid (C4H6O6) is a typical a-hydroxycarboxylic acid, which would make the tartaric acid chelate with Ti center to form a relatively stable titanium complex. It benefited the formation of anatase crystallites, due to the large steric hindrance of carboxylic acidic ligands. The as-prepared TiO2 containing 78.7% anatase and 21.3% brookite exhibitted the highest photocatalytic activity for decomposition of Rhodamine B, which was 1.2 times that of commercial P25. Second, we adopted a tartaric acid-assisted acidic hydrothermal synthetic method, and the contents of anatase and rutile in the TiO2 particles have been successfully controlled by simply adjusting the amount of C4H6O6. The adjustment of C4H6O6 to phases of TiO2 could be controlled by adding different amount of NaCl in the system, due to the competition between tartaric acid and Cl- ions, chaleting with Ti center. The presence of Cl- could promote the formation of rutile. The as-prepared TiO2 containing 77% anatase and 23% rutile presented the highest photocatalytic activity for degrading Rhodamine B and methyl orange. Third, we presented a simple hydrothermal method by treating of TiCl3 in aqueous ammonia with the assistance of NaCl, and TiO2 with different phases of anatase and brookite was achieved. The ratios of brookite to anatase could be controlled by concentration of NaCl and ratio of ammonia to H2O. The content of brookite in TiO2 was

can stablize the layered structure of titanate better than ammonia, and the layered Na-titanate could be transformed to brookite. The product containing 46.6% anatase and 53.4% brookite showed the highest photocatalytic activity for decomposition of Rhodamine B.3. Tailoring of Titanate Nanostructures at Low Alkaline Concentration by a Solvothermal Route and the transformation from titanate to TiO2 photocatalysis.First, nanowires have been selectively synthesized by a simple solvothermal treatment of commercial anatase TiO2 using the mixed water-ethanol cosolvent at low alkaline concentration. The effects of solvothermal temperature, volume ratio of H2O to C2H5OH, amount of NaOH and solvents on the formation of titanate nanostructures have been by simply changing the volume ratio of H2O to C2H5OH at 180and titanate nanotubes could be synthesized between 100 and 180. Second, we utilized different methods to prepare TiO2 catalysts with different morphologies and phases from 1D titanate nanostructures. These methods included:HF-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of TiO2 microparticles with different morphologies from 1D titanate nanowires, water/benzyl alcohol-mediated hydrothermal synthesis of anatase TiO2 with different morphologies, and post-calcination treatment of 1D titanate nanofibers. Reference: Medical information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ medical questions answered: http://www.healthqas.org health news: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com