Reversible wettability changes in colloidal TiO2 nanorod thin-film coatings under selective UV laser irradiation (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Reversible wettability changes in colloidal TiO2 nanorod thin-film coatings under selective UV laser irradiation (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1021/jp0777061 (literal)
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  • Caputo, G; Nobile, C; Kipp, T; Blasi, L; Grillo, V; Carlino, E; Manna, L; Cingolani, R; Cozzoli, PD; Athanassiou, A (2008)
    Reversible wettability changes in colloidal TiO2 nanorod thin-film coatings under selective UV laser irradiation
    in Journal of physical chemistry. C
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  • Caputo, G; Nobile, C; Kipp, T; Blasi, L; Grillo, V; Carlino, E; Manna, L; Cingolani, R; Cozzoli, PD; Athanassiou, A (literal)
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  • \"[Caputo, Gianvito; Nobile, Concetta; Blasi, Laura; Manna, Liberato; Cingolani, Roberto; Cozzoli, Pantaleo Davide; Athanassiou, Athanassia] Natl Nanotechnol Lab, CNR INFM, Unit Ricera IIT, Distretto Tecnol ISUFI, I-73100 Lecce, Italy; [Kipp, Tobias] Univ Hamburg, Inst Appl Phys, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany; [Grillo, Vincenzo; Carlino, Elvio] CNR Natl Lab, INFM, TASC, I-34012 Trieste, Italy (literal)
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  • Reversible wettability changes in colloidal TiO2 nanorod thin-film coatings under selective UV laser irradiation (literal)
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  • We demonstrate the light-induced, reversible wettability of homogeneous nanocrystal-based, thin-film coatings composed of closely packed arrays of surfactant-capped anatase TiO2 nanorods laterally oriented on various substrates. Under selective pulsed UV laser excitations, the oxide films exhibit a surface transition from a highly hydrophobic and superoleophilic state (water and oil contact angles of similar to 110 degrees and less than similar to 8 degrees, respectively) to a highly amphiphilic condition (water and oil contact angles of similar to 20 degrees and similar to 3 degrees, respectively). A mechanism is identified according to which the UV-induced hydrophilicity correlates with a progressive increase in the degree of surface hydroxylation of TiO2. The observed wettability changes are not accompanied by any noticeable photocatalytic degradation of the surfactants on the nanorods, which has been explained by the combined effects of the intense and pulsed irradiation regime and of the rodlike nanocrystal morphology. The organic ligands on the oxide are instead assumed to rearrange conformationally in response to the light-driven surface reconstruction. The amphiphilic state of the UV-irradiated TiO2 films is then considered as the macroscopic wetting result of alternating hydrophilic and oleophilic surface domains of nanoscale extension. Upon prolonged storage in the dark, ambient oxygen removes the newly implanted hydroxyl groups from the TiO2 surfaces and consequently affects again the conformations of ligands such that the films are allowed to recover their native hydrophobic/superoleophilic properties. (literal)
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