Effect of different alcohols,gelatinizing times,calcination and microwave on characteristics of TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized by sol–gel method

In this work,nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (tio2) were synthesized by means of ticl4 as precursor. effects of alcohol type,calcination,gelatinizing time and microwave exposure on the particle size,morphology,crystallinity and particle phase are studied using xrd patterns and sem images. results showed that alcohols such as ethanol increased the particle size; calcination increased the particle size and improved the crystallinity of particles. microwave exposure of particles resulted in smaller particles; adding water increased the impact of microwave. effect of microwave exposure in rutile phase formation is also observed during this study. © 2017,the author(s).