Photocatalytic metamaterials: TiO2 inverse opals

Fabrizio Sordello; Clara Duca; Valter Maurino; Claudio Minero

doi:10.1039/C1CC11243K

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Photocatalytic metamaterials: TiO₂ inverse opals†

Fabrizio Sordello,*^a Clara Duca,^ab Valter Maurino^a and Claudio Minero^a

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^a Dipartimento di Chimica Analitica, Università di Torino, Via P: Giuria, 5, 10125 Torino, Italy
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^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, Canada
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Abstract

The study of the photocatalytic activity of TiO₂ inverse opals showed that these structures behave as metamaterials: their properties arise principally from the 3D periodic structure of the material and marginally from porosity, reflectivity and scattering.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC11243K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 02 Mar 2011
Accepted: 07 Apr 2011
First published: 26 Apr 2011

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Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 6147-6149

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F. Sordello, C. Duca, V. Maurino and C. Minero, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6147 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11243K

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