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Insights into a selective synthesis of anatase, rutile, and brookite-type titanium dioxides by a hydrothermal treatment of titanium complexes

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Novel water-soluble titanium complexes coordinated by hydroxycarboxylic acids or amines were developed, and the hydrothermal treatment of the new complexes was carried out to elucidate the formation mechanism of the titania polymorphs including rutile, anatase, and brookite. An empirical relationship among the crystal structure of TiO2, the ligand, and the complex structure was found. Anatase, rutile, or a mixture of both was obtained by the hydrothermal treatment of the complexes coordinated by hydroxycarboxylic acids. The structure of complexes prepared using hydroxycarboxylic acids, which have one hydroxyl and one carboxylic groups, seems to be preferable for the formation of rutile. It was also found that the hydrothermal treatment of titanium complexes coordinated by amine with NAc2 structure resulted in the formation of brookite. Thus, the effect of ligand and complex structure on the crystal structure of TiO2 synthesized by the hydrothermal treatment of the complexes was proposed.

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This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant No. 22107002) on Innovative Areas of “Fusion Materials: Creative Development of Materials and Exploration of Their Function through Molecular Control” (Grant No. 2206) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT).

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    Mitsuru Yoshizawa, Makoto Kobayashi, Valery Petrykin, Hideki Kato & Masato Kakihana

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Yoshizawa, M., Kobayashi, M., Petrykin, V. et al. Insights into a selective synthesis of anatase, rutile, and brookite-type titanium dioxides by a hydrothermal treatment of titanium complexes. Journal of Materials Research 29, 90–97 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2013.229

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