Ultrafine titania particles

The reason for the formation of anatase phase at such a high temperature might be explained as following. The as-prqiared ultrafine titania particles are liquefied at sufficimtly high temperature because melting point of nanoparticlra are lower than that of bulk titania (1850 C). The liquid titania particles are supercooled and became metastable states. The residence time in the flame is only in the order of miU-second so that the metastable phase has no time to become thermodynamically stable phase, rutile. 

Key Words Styrene, Active site, Ultrafine titania particles, Process improvement, SMPO, Trace components, Catalytic dehydration, Computational flow dynamics, Quantum mechanical calculations, Oxygen starvation. Sharpless mechanism, Titanium peroxide, Oxygen transfer, Proton parking place. Leaching, Peroxolysis, Reactive distillation. 2008 Elsevier B.v. 

FIGURE 13.7 Representation of titanium-on-silica catalyst in SMPO as a range of silica-supported—and therefore stabilized—ultrafine titania particles containing catalytically active, coordinatively unsaturated titanate sites. 

A gaseous electric discharge (corona) generated by two needle electrodes was applied in the synthesis of ultrafine titania particles recently (19). The presence of corona reduced the primary particle size and the level of crystallinity. For example. 

This simple picfure can only be partly correct, as it has been shown that both unsupported ultrafine titania nanoparticles [10] and silica-supported monodis-persed subnanometric titania particles [11] are active catalysts for olefin epoxidation with hydroperoxides. In these small titania particles, the titanium atoms possess coordination states between four and six. Quanfum chemical calculations derived similar activation energies for oxygen transfer on mononuclear four- and five-coordinafed fifanium sifes [12,13]. 

The aim within the frame of this book is not to survey the plethora of pubH-cations devoted to surface photografting. Typical work pubhshed in recent years is compiled in Table 11.6, which demonstrates that the enhancement of hydro-philicity and wettabiUty of hydrophobic polymers and the improvement of adhesion of polymers to various substrates are still major research topics (see also [99]). Moreover, the grafting of ultrafine inorganic particles, such as nanosized silica and titania, with vinyl monomers is an attractive subject. Relevant earHer work on surface photografting has been reviewed by Yagci and Schnabel [84]. 

Ultrafine inorganic particles (silica, titania) Acryhc add, acrylamide, acrylonitrile, styrene Grafted materials give stable dispersions in appropriate Uquids [53,54]... 

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Various aerosol processes have been developed for the generation of ultrafine powders at laboratory s e, such as flame (2), tube furnace (5), gas-condensation (4), thermal plasma (5), laser, sputtering and a variety of other aerosol processes named after the energy sources which are applied to provide the high temperatures during gas-to-particle conversion. However, until now, only flame processes have been scaled up to produce commercial quantities of ceramic particulates, such as silica, titania, etc., at low cost (about 1/lb). 

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