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Precise Design of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Using Nanostructured Solids as Template

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Precise design of the shape and the size of titanium dioxide particle is a key for many application. Among available methods, in the present review, those using porous template are summarized. Porous materials especially nanoporous materials with periodic pore structures are attractive to prepare nanoparticles with precisely controlled shape and size. SBA-15, one of the mesoporous silica, has been used most extensively due to the pore size suitable as template to design titanium dioxide nanoparticle. Synthetic methods and characterization have been extensively examined to design nanoarchitecture of titanium dioxide-nanoporous solids precisely.

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The authors are grateful to the Distinguished Professor Grant (Grant number N41A640072) from the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT). This work was also supported by a Moonshot project (Grant number JPNP18016) from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, and joint research program of the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University.

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Vejchakul, K., Ogawa, M. Precise Design of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Using Nanostructured Solids as Template. Top Catal 66, 1649–1661 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-023-01845-0

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