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TiO2 nanoparticles with enhanced solid solution of Cr up to 16 wt% in polymorphs of rutile, anatase, brookite, α-PbO2-type, and occasionally baddeleyite-type were synthesized via pulse laser ablation on ceramic TiO2 target dissolved with Cr2O3 or clamped Cr/Ti plates in air. Analytical electron microscopic observations indicated these nanocondensates have prevalent crystallographic shear (CS) along specific planes to form superstructures. The rutile type typically shows (100) and (010) CS besides the conventional ones rotating about the [111] zone axis as reported for ambient samples. The CS planes are parallel to (001) for anatase, (001) and (\( \overline{1} \)10) for brookite, whereas (001) and {1\( \overline{3} \)1} for the α-PbO2-type TiO2 with varied extent of Cr dissolution. Surface modification, as a result of Cr dissolution and/or internal stress, was observed for all the polymorphs.
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This work was supported by the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at NSYSU and National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC under contract NSC96-2221-E-110-055-MY3.
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Schematic drawings of unrelaxed atom positions of Ti4+ (small spheres) and O2− (large spheres) on (131) surface for Cr-dissolved α-PbO2 type TiO2 assuming Cr3+ in substitution of Ti4+ with charge compensating oxygen vacancies (cf. text) not depicted. 
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Chen, CH., Huang, CN., Chen, SY. et al. Crystallographic shear of polymorphic TiO2 nanocondensates with enhanced Cr2O3 dissolution via pulsed laser ablation. J Nanopart Res 13, 3683–3692 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0289-z
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