Abstract
A novel approach to fabricate sub-μm scale arrays is demonstrated with the growth of rutile TiO2 on titanium substrates. The fabrication process is template-free, simply involving coating of the titanium substrate with sodium tetraborate glass, Na2O · 2B2O 3: when the glass coating was removed by dissolution in distilled water at 80°C for about 5 h, random or well-ordered submicron-scale rod arrays of rutile were left on the substrate. A glass phase topotaxial (GPT) nucleation and growth mechanism is thought to operate in the crystal growth process.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 567-571 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue number | 1310 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ceramics and Composites
- Chemistry(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Materials Chemistry
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Liu, Y., Tsuru, K., Hayakawa, S., & Osaka, A. (2004). Topotaxial nucleation and growth of TiO2 submicron-scale rod arrays on titanium substrates via sodium tetraborate glass coating. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 112(1310), 567-571. https://doi.org/10.2109/jcersj.112.567