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Low-Temperature Fabrication of Mesoporous Titania Thin Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2017

Lin Song ,
Volker Körstgens ,
David Magerl ,
Bo Su ,
Thomas Fröschl ,
Nicola Hüsing ,
Sigrid Bernstorff  and
Peter Müller-Buschbaum
Lin Song
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Volker Körstgens
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
David Magerl
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Bo Su
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Thomas Fröschl
Affiliation:
Materialchemie, Chemie und Physik der Materialien, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.
Nicola Hüsing
Affiliation:
Materialchemie, Chemie und Physik der Materialien, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.
Sigrid Bernstorff
Affiliation:
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Strada Statale 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park Basovizza, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Peter Müller-Buschbaum*
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
*
*(Email: muellerb@ph.tum.de)
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Abstract

Mesoporous titania films are prepared via the polymer-template assisted sol-gel synthesis at low temperatures, using the titania precursor ethylene glycol-modified titanate (EGMT) and the diblock copolymer polystyrene-block-polyethyleneoxide (PS-b-PEO). UV-irradiation is chosen as a low temperature technique to remove the polymer template and thereby to obtain titania sponge-like nanostructures at processing temperatures below 100 °C. After different UV irradiation times, ranging for 0 h to 24 h, the surface and inner morphologies of the titania films are studied with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and grazing incidence small-angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS), respectively. The evolution of the band gap energies is investigated using ultraviolet/visible (UV/Vis) spectroscopy. The findings reveal that 12 h UV-treatment is sufficient to remove the polymer template from the titania/PS-b-PEO composite films with a thickness of 80 nm, and the determined bad gap energies indicate an incomplete crystallization of the titania nanostructures.

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sol-gelthin filmscanning electron microscopy (SEM)
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MRS Advances , Volume 2 , Issue 43: Electronic Devices and Materials , 2017 , pp. 2315 - 2325
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