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Synthesis of Mesoporous Thin TiO2 Films with Hexagonal Pore Structures Using Triblock Copolymer Templates
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2001
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Materials ScienceTemplate RemovalEngineeringNanoporous MaterialNanomaterialsInorganic PhotochemistryTitanium Dioxide MaterialsChemistryThin FilmsTio2 Thin FilmsPrimitive Cubic StructureHybrid MaterialsFunctional MaterialsCatalyst PreparationMaterial Preparation
TiO2 thin films with a hexagonal mesoporous structure and an anatase-type crystalline framework are easily synthesized by a sol–gel method at low pH, using an EO–PO–EO block copolymer as template. While the TiO2/polymer superstructure originally has a primitive cubic structure, annealing at 150 °C affords a phase transition to hexagonal (see Figure), which persists upon template removal by calcination.