Substrate effect on phonon confinement in TiO2 nanoparticles for thermal sensing application

Abstract

The great potential of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) for high temperature applications is limited by the agglomeration, grain growth, and phase transformation into rutile. In this regard, we have decorated TiO2 NPs over the surface of Santa Barbara Amorphous-15 (SBA15) and studied the substrate effect on the thermal stability of anatase TiO2 NPs in terms of the grain growth and the phase transformation. Here, we reported the ultrafast grain growth of anatase TiO2 NPs in TiO2-SBA15 nanocomposite in response to short time thermal exposure and the resulting phonon confinement effect for high temperature thermal sensing application.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 15, 2014
Source ID
10.1063/1.4895923

Entities

People

  • Ashish Kumar Mishra
  • Liping Huang

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Military Engineering.
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology