Synthesis and characterization of the air–water interfacial TiO2/ZrO2 binary oxide film

Self-assembly and photocatalytic property of amorphous cubic-like TiO2-ZnO hybrid film

“…The wide-angle XRD pattern of TiO 2 -ZnO film has no obvious diffraction peaks appeared between 10º to 80º, suggesting this film is amorphous. According to literature [12][13][14][15][16][17], the recorded d value corresponding to the strongest XRD peak located at 2θ < 10° means the spacing between high-ordered lamellar nanostructures or the diameter of well-ordered mesoporous nanostructures in analogous surfactant-templated inorganicorganic films. In this work, the low-angle XRD pattern has a diffraction peak appeared at 2θ angle of 4.67º, corresponding to a d value of 1.89 nm.…”

“…An effective preparation method, namely self-assembly technology [9] has been widely applied to direct synthesis of well-ordered structural metallic oxide films. White et al [10,11] and our group [12][13][14][15][16][17] have successfully prepared a number of high-ordered SiO 2 , TiO 2 , ZrO 2 , SnO 2 , TiO 2 -ZrO 2 and ZrO 2 -SnO 2 films by a facial self-assembly method, using surfactants as structure-directing agents and organometallics as precursor under mild chemical reaction conditions. Accordingly, we are inspired to prepare well-ordered TiO 2 -ZnO film by the similar self-assembly method.…”

Influence of counter-ions on the self-assembly of ZrO2 nanodisks

“…ZrO 2 films templated by DBSA were self-assembled following the method reported earlier [18][19][20][21]. The optimized growth temperatures for ZrO 2 films were chosen at 21 and 50°C, respectively.…”

“…A number of surfactant-templated air-water interfacial metal oxide films with special physical and chemical properties have been successfully self-assembled. For instance, TiO 2 , SiO 2 , ZrO 2 and TiO 2 -ZrO 2 films were prepared by White's group [14][15][16][17] and our group [18][19][20][21]. During the self-assembly of these films, the effects of counter-ions were usually ignored.…”

Synthesis of Rutile Nb:TiO2 Free‐Standing Thin Film at the Liquid–Air Interface

“…While there are only a few reporting fabrication of metal oxide free-standing films [6][7][8][9] , most of them grow free-standing films using surfactant tempalting.…”