Adsorption of organic molecules on rutile TiO2 and anatase TiO2 single crystal surfaces

The interaction of organic molecules with titanium dioxide surfaces has been the subject of many studies over the last few decades. Numerous surface science techniques have been utilised to understand the often complex nature of these systems. The reasons for studying these systems are hugely divers...

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Published inChemical Society reviews Vol. 41; no. 11; pp. 427 - 4217
Main Authors Thomas, Andrew G, Syres, Karen L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 15.05.2012
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Adsorption
alcohols
Alcohols - chemistry
amino acids
Amino Acids - chemistry
carboxylic acids
Carboxylic Acids - chemistry
Catechols - chemistry
Coloring Agents - chemistry
Crystallization
dyes
nitrogen
Surface Properties
Titanium - chemistry
titanium dioxide
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Summary:The interaction of organic molecules with titanium dioxide surfaces has been the subject of many studies over the last few decades. Numerous surface science techniques have been utilised to understand the often complex nature of these systems. The reasons for studying these systems are hugely diverse given that titanium dioxide has many technological and medical applications. Although surface science experiments investigating the adsorption of organic molecules on titanium dioxide surfaces is not a new area of research, the field continues to change and evolve as new potential applications are discovered and new techniques to study the systems are developed. This tutorial review aims to update previous reviews on the subject. It describes experimental and theoretical work on the adsorption of carboxylic acids, dye molecules, amino acids, alcohols, catechols and nitrogen containing compounds on single crystal TiO 2 surfaces. This review gives a summary of adsorption of organic molecules on TiO 2 from both an experimental and theoretical perspective. It concentrates mainly on the adsorption on highly-idealised vacuum-prepared single crystal surfaces.
Bibliography:Andrew Thomas received his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Manchester and his MSc in instrumentation and Analytical Science from UMIST, before obtaining his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Following this he held three research appointments at UMIST before becoming an Experimental Officer in the Department of Physics. He was made a Research Fellow in Physics at UMIST in 2001 and moved to the Photon Science Institute at The University of Manchester following the merger of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester in 2004.
Karen Syres obtained her MPhys degree from the University of Manchester before obtaining her PhD under the supervision of Andrew Thomas and Wendy Flavell. Following this she held a one-year PhD plus scholarship before moving to The School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham where she is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow.
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ISSN:0306-0012
1460-4744
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DOI:10.1039/c2cs35057b