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Nanostructured polycrystalline titanium dioxides are produced by gas-phase detonation and pyrohydrolysis. Titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) is used as a precursor in the gas phase, and a premixed gas (O2 and H2) is used as a source of energy. The product is a mixture of TiO2 crystals in the rutile phase (80%) and anatase phase (20%).
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Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 112–116, September–October, 2008.
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Ouyang, X., Li, X., Yan, H. et al. Synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles from sprayed droplets of titanium tetrachloride by the gas-phase detonation method. Combust Explos Shock Waves 44, 597–600 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10573-008-0091-0
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