Titanium nanostructured thin films

Martinez-Ferrero, E., Sakatani, Y., Boissire, C., Grosso, D., Fuertes, A., Fraxedas, J., and Sanchez, C. (2007) Nanostructured titanium oxynitride porous thin films as efficient visible-active photocatalysts. Advanced Functional Materials, 17 (16), 3348—3354. 

Usually the nanotube arrays have been made from a titanium thick film or foil, in which case the resulting nanotubes rest upon an underlying Ti substrate as separated by a barrier layer. The nanotube arrays have also been fabricated from a titanium thin film sputtered onto a variety of substrates, such as silicon and fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) coated conductive glass. This extends the possibility for preparing technical catalysts by deposing a thin Ti layer over a substrate (a foam, for example) and then inducing the formation of the nanostructured titania film by anodic oxidation. ... 

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