“…Therefore, to be used in sunscreens, inorganic compounds such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide must be present at a controlled size, 13 to promote more efficient uniform protection against UV radiation, to prevent visible light scattering 14 and hence many of them have surface modifiers 15,16 to impede aggregation 11 of the particles caused by electrostatic effects. Examples of surface modifiers are dimethicone, silica, 12 alumina, aluminum stearate, 11 aluminum oxide, simethicone, stearic acid, 15 solid lipid microparticles, 3 and polyaspartic acid. 16 Recently, we demonstrated the efficiency of p-toluene sulfonic acid (PTSH) to control the size, shape, and aggregation of TiO 2 nanoparticles obtained by the sol-gel process.…”