Floating Growth of Large-Scale Freestanding TiO2 Nanorod Films at the Gas–Liquid Interface for Additive-Free Li-Ion Battery Applications

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 6; no. 20; pp. 17376 - 17383
• Main Authors: Xia, Hua-Rong, Li, Jia, Peng, Chen, Sun, Wen-Tao, Li, Long-Wei, Peng, Lian-Mao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 22.10.2014
• Subjects: self-templated; floating; gas−liquid interface; Li-ion battery; freestanding; binder-free

The floating growth process of large-scale freestanding TiO2 nanorod films at the gas–liquid interface was investigated. On the basis of the experiments, a self-templated growth scenario was developed to account for the self-assembly process. In the scenario, titanium complexes function not only as...