Synthesis of size controllable and thermally stable rice-like brookite titania and its application as a scattering layer for nano-sized titania film-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Multiphase TiO2nanostructures: a review of efficient synthesis, growth mechanism, probing capabilities, and applications in bio-safety and health

“…Fig. 12(a 1 and a 2 ) elucidate the SEM images of nanorices obtained hydrothermally with prolonging the reaction time to 24 h and 48 h. 276 The SEM images of brookite-TiO 2 nanostructures: (a 3 ) nanoparticles synthesized by the sol-gel method, 275 (a 4 ) top-view SEM image of nanobullets grown hydrothermally showing sharpened tips, with the upper inset providing the corresponding tilt-view, 277 (b 1 ) a single ricelike particle, 276 (b 2 ) eggshell morphology obtained with the thermolysis method. 277 Fig.…”

Facile synthesis of high-temperature (1000 °C) phase-stable rice-like anatase TiO2 nanocrystals

“…The TiO 2 nanorice exhibited an excellent photovoltaic efficiency of higher than 8 % as an anode of a dyesensitized solar cell. Very recently, Li et al (2014) prepared size-controllable and thermally stable ricelike brookite TiO 2 particles with high phase purity through a hydrothermal process. They found that the rice-like brookite TiO 2 -scattering layers could improve the performances of the P25 film-based solar cells.…”

Hierarchical structure engineering of brookite TiO2 crystals for enhanced photocatalytic and external antitumor property

“…In recent years, brookite TiO 2 was generally synthesized through hydrothermal decomposition and chemical vapor deposition reaction [11][12][13]. Through these methods, a large number of brookite materials were obtained, such as brookite nanosheets and rice-like brookite [14][15][16]. However, these crystals cannot meet all practical requirements in the applications, for example, the short lifetime of photogenerated electron-hole pairs, which usually hinders their practical applications [17].…”