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Synthesis of Submicron-Sized Titania-Coated Silica Particles with a Sol-Gel Method and Their Application to Colloidal Photonic Crystals

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A previously proposed method for preparing monodispersed titania particles was extended to preparation of titania-coated silica spherical particles. The core silica particles with an average size of 264 nm were prepared with Stöber method. The titania-coating was performed in ethanol/acetonitrile solvent in the presence of silica particles by a sol-gel method with the use of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) and methylamine (MA) catalyst. Average size of the silica-titania particles decreased from 457 to 292 nm with an increase in concentration of silica particles. Coefficient of variation for the particle size was less than 5%. Colloidal crystals could be fabricated with a dip-coating technique and a sedimentation process, respectively. Measurements of reflectance revealed peaks based on the Bragg diffraction. Those peaks red-shifted with an increase in titania shell thickness because of a high refractive index of titania. Annealing at high temperature transformed crystal structure of titania shell from amorphous to anatase (500°C) and rutile (1000°C), which led to red-shift of reflection peak because of an increase in refractive index of titania due to the crystallization.

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    Eiichi Mine, Mitsuaki Hirose, Masaki Kubo, Yoshio Kobayashi, Daisuke Nagao & Mikio Konno

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Mine, E., Hirose, M., Kubo, M. et al. Synthesis of Submicron-Sized Titania-Coated Silica Particles with a Sol-Gel Method and Their Application to Colloidal Photonic Crystals. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 38, 91–95 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-006-5855-y

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