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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Self-Cleaning Ceramic Tiles Produced via Stable Coating of TiO₂ Nanoparticles.

Amid Shakeri, Darren Yip, Maryam Badv, Sara M Imani, Mehdi Sanjari, Tohid F Didar

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Artificial Solar Light-Driven APTES/TiOMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  6. Synergic Effect of TiOPolymers · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Amid ShakeriDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada. shakeria@mcmaster.ca.
Darren YipDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada. yipdp@mcmaster.ca.
Maryam BadvSchool of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada. badvm@mcmaster.ca.
Sara M ImaniSchool of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada. moetakes@mcmaster.ca.
Mehdi SanjariNanophyll Inc., 175 Longwood Rd South, Hamilton, ON L8P 0A1, Canada. mehdi@nanophyll.com.
Tohid F DidarDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada. didar@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8757-8002

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high photocatalytic power of TiO₂ nanoparticles has drawn great attention in environmental and medical applications. Coating surfaces with these particles enables us to benefit from self-cleaning properties and decomposition of pollutants. In this paper, two strategies have been introduced to coat ceramic tiles with TiO₂ nanoparticles, and the self-cleaning effect of the surfaces on degradation of an organic dye under ultraviolent (UV) exposure is investigated. In the first approach, a simple one-step heat treatment method is introduced for coating, and different parameters of the heat treatment process are examined. In the second method, TiO₂ nanoparticles are first aminosilanized using (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) treatment followed by their covalently attachment onto CO₂ plasma treated ceramic tiles via

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APTES treatmentheat treatmentphotocatalystself-cleaningTiO2 nanoparticles

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PMID29899252
PMCPMC6025286

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