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Hierarchical structure engineering of brookite TiO2 crystals for enhanced photocatalytic and external antitumor property

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Here we report a hydrothermal approach to build and tailor the hierarchical structure of brookite TiO2 crystal under multiple hierarchical scales. Benefiting from the hierarchical structure and the existence of oxygen vacancy, these as-prepared hierarchical brookite TiO2 crystals can not only enhance photocatalytic activity, but also demonstrate their potential in the treatment of superficial malignant tumor.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21573068), Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (15XD1501300), the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WD1313009).

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  1. Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Zhifei He, Shuang Yang, Long Wu, Shengyou Liu & Huagui Yang

  2. Changhai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Yonghua Su & Changquan Ling

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He, Z., Su, Y., Yang, S. et al. Hierarchical structure engineering of brookite TiO2 crystals for enhanced photocatalytic and external antitumor property. Sci. Bull. 61, 1818–1825 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-016-1199-3

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