Anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) has emerged as a potential anode material for sodium-ion hybrid capacitors (SICs) in terms of its nontoxicity, high structure stability and cost-effectiveness. However, its inherent poor electrical conductivity and lim...
Nickel-doped titanium dioxide (NIT) with different nickel contents (0.1–1.0 wt%) was prepared via the sol–gel method, combined with mechanical ball milling. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and UV–Vis dif...
The nanosheet-seeding growth (NSG) technique is an interesting synthesis method for preparing two-dimensional (2D) materials by employing ultrathin nanosheets as templates. In this work, the synthesis of 2D TiO2 nanoplates using Ti0.87O2 nanosheets v...
Nowadays, wearable and flexible nanogenerators are of great importance for portable personal electronics. A flexible piezoelectric energy harvester (f-PEH) based on Bi3.15Nd0.85Ti3O12 single crystalline nanoplates (BNdT NPs) and polydimethylsiloxane...
To satisfy the ever-increasing energy demands, it is of the utmost importance to develop electrochemical materials capable of producing and storing energy in a highly efficient manner. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has recently emerged as a promising choic...
The constantly growing need for advanced bone regeneration materials has motivated the development of calcium phosphates (CaPs) composites with a different metal or metal-oxide nanomaterials and their economical and environmentally friendly productio...
In recent years, defective TiO2-based composite nanomaterials have received much attention in the field of photocatalysis. In this work, TiB2 was used as a precursor to successfully prepare Ti3+ defective TiO2 (TiO2-B) with a truncated bipyramidal st...
This study addresses the effects of annealing temperatures (up to 500 °C) on the crystal structure, morphology, and optical properties of peroxo groups (–O–O–) containing titanate nanotubes (PTNTs). PTNTs, which possess a unique...
The recent global pandemic of COVID-19 highlights the urgent need for practical applications of anti-microbial coatings on touch-surfaces. Nanostructured TiO2 is a promising candidate for the passive reduction of transmission when applied to handles,...
The nano-architecture of titanium oxide is a key element of a wide range of applications, mainly optical and catalytic activities. Therefore, the current study focuses on engineering and designing three interesting nanostructures of titanium oxides:...
Titanium dioxide photocatalysts can break down pollutants using natural light. They possess notable light stability, chemical stability, and catalytic effects, thus leading to extensive research worldwide. However, the limited light absorption range...
Calcium phosphates (CaP) composites with biomacromolecules and/or nanomaterials have recently emerged as a potential solution to improve the poor mechanical properties and biological response of CaP. Among the methods available for preparation of suc...
Thin films consisting of quadrilateral nanoplates of CuO on the surface of a Cu plate were successfully synthesized in a two-dimensional microspace by the hydrothermal oxidation of a Cu plate using aqueous (NH4)2S2O8 solution as the oxidizer. Selecti...
This review aims to give a general overview of the recent use of tungsten-based catalysts for wide environmental applications, with first some useful background information about tungsten oxides. Tungsten oxide materials exhibit suitable behaviors fo...
Bi6Fe1.9Co0.1Ti3O18 (BFCTO)/NaGdF4:Yb3+, Er3+ (NGF) nanohybrids were successively synthesized by the hydrothermal process followed by anassembly method, and BFCTO-1.0/NGF nanosheets, BFCTO-1.5/NGF nanoplates and BFCTO-2.0/NGF truncated tetragonal bip...
In this study, we fabricated three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical plasmo-photonic nanoarchitectures by epitaxially integrating semiconducting zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires with vertically oriented plasmonic gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanoplatforms and inv...