UV Irradiation as a Versatile Low-Temperature Strategy for Fabricating Templated Mesoporous Titania Films.

ABSTRACT: Mesoporous titania thin films offer promising applications in sensors, batteries, and solar cells. The traditional soft templating methods rely on high-temperature calcination, which is energy-intensive, incompatible with thermosensitive flexible substrates, and destructive for titania structures. This work demonstrates UV irradiation as a versatile low-temperature and energy-saving alternative for mesoporous crystalline titania fabrication. Grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering analysis reveals a three-stage crystallization process with increasing UV irradiation time supported by photoluminescence data. UV-irradiation-derived samples exhibit crystallinity and crystal size comparable to that of calcination. Integration with block copolymer templated sol-gel synthesis enables the cr

SUBMITTER: Pan G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11798364 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature