Kelvin probe force microscopy of nanocrystalline TiO₂ photoelectrodes

• Alex Henning,
• Gino Günzburger,
• Res Jöhr,
• Yossi Rosenwaks,
• Biljana Bozic-Weber,
• Catherine E. Housecroft,
• Edwin C. Constable,
• Ernst Meyer and
• Thilo Glatzel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 418–428, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.49

• , the SPV decreases exponentially with decreasing illumination energies and we conclude, therefore, that the number of trap states also decreases exponentially with decreasing trap state energy relative to the conduction band edge of the TiO2 nanoparticles. The buried TiO2/SnO2-interface is reached by

Photocatalytic antibacterial performance of TiO₂ and Ag-doped TiO₂ against S. aureus. P. aeruginosa and E. coli

• Kiran Gupta,
• R. P. Singh,
• Ashutosh Pandey and
• Anjana Pandey

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 345–351, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.40

• ., India Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad -211004. U.P., India. 10.3762/bjnano.4.40 Abstract This paper reports the structural and optical properties and comparative photocatalytic activity of TiO2 and Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles against different

• that the annealed sample of TiO2 has both anatase and rutile phases while only an anatase phase was found in Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles. The decreased band-gap energy of Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles in comparison to TiO2 nanoparticles was investigated by UV–vis spectroscopy. The rate of recombination

• and transfer behaviour of the photoexcited electron–hole pairs in the semiconductors was recorded by photoluminescence. The antimicrobial activity of TiO2 and Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles (3% and 7%) was investigated against both gram positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and gram negative (Pseudomonas

Near-field effects and energy transfer in hybrid metal-oxide nanostructures

• Ulrich Herr,
• Barat Achinuq,
• Cahit Benel,
• Giorgos Papageorgiou,
• Manuel Goncalves,
• Johannes Boneberg,
• Paul Leiderer,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Peter Marek and
• Horst Hahn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 306–317, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.34

• nanoparticles. The oxide particles were doped with rare-earth (RE) ions, which show a large shift between absorption and emission wavelengths, allowing us to investigate the energy-transfer processes in detail. The main focus is on TiO2 nanoparticles doped with Eu3+, since the material is interesting for

• Eu fluorescence can be suppressed by covering the nanoantennas with a 10 nm thick SiOx layer. Keywords: confocal microscopy; energy transfer; field enhancement; light harvesting; luminescence; nano-antennas; nanosphere lithography; nanostructures; plasmonics; simulation; TiO2 nanoparticles

• . [16] on Eu-doped TiO2 nanoparticles with comparable Eu3+ concentration obtained by a plasma-pyrolysis synthesis route. The excitation spectrum of the TiO2:Eu nanoparticles is shown in Figure 4. The emission intensity at 617 nm was recorded and shows several maxima for excitation at around 400 nm as

Reduced electron recombination of dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO₂ spheres consisting of ultrathin nanosheets with [001] facet exposed

• Hongxia Wang,
• Meinan Liu,
• Cheng Yan and
• John Bell

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 378–387, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.44

• recombination rate compared to the conventional TiO2 nanoparticles. In contrast, the effective electron diffusion coefficient, Dn, was not sensitive to the variation of the TiO2 morphology. The TiO2 spheres showed the same Dn as that of the nanoparticles. The influence of TiCl4 post-treatment on the conduction

• powder were prepared. Paste A contained 13 wt % TiO2 powder, 2.6 wt % methylcellulose and 84.4 wt % α-terpinol. Paste B contained 25 wt % TiO2 powder, 2.5 wt % methylcellulose and 72.5 wt % α-terpinol. A commercial TiO2 paste (DSL-18-NR, Dyesol) consisting of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles with an average

• [001] facet exposed, were assembled and characterized in terms of the device performance, the kinetics of electron transport and back reaction. It was found that the TiO2-spheres-based DSCs generated an energy conversion efficiency of 7.57%, which is comparable to the conventional TiO2 nanoparticles

Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• are linked by intermolecular hydrogen bonding. An interesting phenomenon was found with SAMs connected to the TiO2 surface through a carboxylic acid group. Here, doping TiO2 nanoparticles with Co2+ at high concentrations (up to 23%), where the Co2+ replaces Ti4+ by substitution, was found to

• to adsorption onto the gold surface. It was found that the one-step process yielded a lower coverage of the TiO2 nanoparticles due to the formation of HS–(CH2)10–COOH spacers connected to the titania nanoparticles. Similarly, Langmuir–Blodgett films of 1,12-dodecane dicarboxylic acid were used to

Schottky junction/ohmic contact behavior of a nanoporous TiO₂ thin film photoanode in contact with redox electrolyte solutions

• Masao Kaneko,
• Hirohito Ueno and
• Junichi Nemoto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 127–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.15

• simultaneously both Schottky junction and ohmic contact behavior. Sensitization and electron transfer in TiO2 nanoparticles and nanoporous electrodes by [Fe(CN)6]4− has been thoroughly investigated [8][9][10], but such multi-nature behavior of both Schottky junction and ohmic contact has not been reported. In