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Titanium oxyhydrate nanoparticles have been prepared via tetrabutoxytitanium hydrolysis. The addition of a stabilizing component (acetylacetone) to tetrabutoxytitanium prior to hydrolysis in a mixture of water and ethanol made it possible to sharply reduce the hydrolysis rate. Boiling at 100°C converted amorphous titanium oxyhydrate sol into nanocrystalline anatase with a crystallite size of 3.5 nm. According to scanning electron microscopy data, the TiO2 particles were spherical in shape and ranged in size from 90 to 290 nm. The material was characterized by X-ray diffraction, simultaneous thermal analysis, electron microscopy, and dynamic light scattering.
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Original Russian Text © D.A. Zherebtsov, V.V. Viktorov, S.A. Kulikovskikh, E.A. Belaya, D.M. Galimov, 2016, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 35–40.
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Zherebtsov, D.A., Viktorov, V.V., Kulikovskikh, S.A. et al. Synthesis of nanoparticulate anatase sol from tetrabutoxytitanium. Inorg Mater 52, 33–37 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168516010167
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