Determination of a morphological phase diagram of titania/titanate nanostructures from alkaline hydrothermal treatment of Degussa P25

There are a number of parameters that affect the nanostructure formation and phase parameters in the controlled manipulation of low-dimensional forms of metal oxides. These include caustic concentration, temperature, treatment duration, post-treatments and starting materials. In alkaline hydrothermal treatments, the prevailing trend is to either maintain set hydrothermal parameters or to modify select hydrothermal parameters to determine specific effects of individual parameters. As such, a recent study has been conducted on the systematic investigation of caustic concentration and temperature treatment on nanostructure formation from Degussa P25 through alkaline hydrothermal treatment via the Kasuga method.