“…Although most researchers acquired their silica from a commercial supplier, some workers studied more durable options such as rice husk [90] and industrial wastes [166]. Another cheap, mildly toxic [295], and vastly studied component was TiO 2 [89,91,94,110,125,129,131,147,148,153,154,158,197,205,208]. Its uses were similar to silica's, in addition to which its UV absorption properties improved the photostability of the coated/treated wood.…”