“…In many of them, Ag nanoparticles are formed from a silver salt reduced by (electro) chemical, [ 15,16 ] thermal, [ 16 ] or photocatalytic [ 4,6,8,10,14,17 ] route, either on a dense TiO 2 surface, [ 5,8,14 ] or in a nanoporous [ 4,6,9,10 ] or mesoporous [15][16][17] TiO 2 matrix. Some groups synthesize these fi lms from commercial sols with anatase TiO 2 nanoparticles [ 4,7,9,10 ] by spin coating and postheat treatment at 500 °C.…”