Influencing Factors of Macrosporous Ordering in TiO2 and ZrO2 Inverse Opals

Hui Zhang; Xiao Long Xu; Fan Li; Bin Bin Jin; Su Ling Zhao

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.544.209

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Influencing Factors of Macrosporous Ordering in TiO₂ and ZrO₂ Inverse Opals

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TiO2 inverse opals, as well as used as photonic crystals, can be applied to the dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC), photocatalysis, and so on. In above applications, ordering of pore arrangement in TiO2 inverse opal is crucial as it determines the application effect of TiO2 inverse opal. In this paper, TiO2 inverse opals were prepared by infiltrating and removing of polystyrene (PS) colloidal crystal templates. Using scanning electron microscope (SEM), it is found that the pore structure of inverse opals can be tuned by using different heating temperature and different size of PS spheres, and ordering of pore arrangement is strongly affected by ordering of PS spheres alignment, heating temperature, and size of PS spheres.

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Hui Zhang, Xiao Long Xu, Fan Li, Bin Bin Jin, Su Ling Zhao

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Fabrication, Macrosporous Ordering, TiO₂ Inverse Opals, ZrO₂ Inverse Opals

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