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Bull. Mater. Sci., Vol. 29, No. 7, December 2006, pp. 705–708. © Indian Academy of Sciences.




Fabrication and characterization of uniform TiO2 nanotube arrays by
sol–gel template method

               T MAIYALAGAN, B VISWANATHAN* and U V VARADARAJU
               Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India

               MS received 11 October 2005; revised 18 September 2006

               Abstract. TiO 2 nanotubes have been synthesized by sol–gel template method using alumina membrane.
               Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy, UV ab-
               sorption spectrum and X-ray diffraction techniques have been used to investigate the structure, morphology
               and optical properties of TiO 2 nanotubes. SEM image showed that TiO 2 nanotubes obtained were ordered and
               uniform. The diameter and length of the nanotubes were decided by the pore size and thickness of alumina
               template. Raman and XRD measurements confirmed the crystallinity and anatase phase of the TiO 2 nano-
               tubes. The optical absorption measurement of TiO 2 nanotubes exhibits a blue shift with respect to that of the
               bulk TiO 2 owing to the quantum size effect.

               Keywords.     TiO 2 nanotubes; Raman spectra; template synthesis; alumina template.


1.   Introduction                                                      Many approaches such as template-assisted method
                                                                    (Sander et al 2004), electrochemical anodic oxidation of
Titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) has been widely investigated as            pure titanium sheet (Gong et al 2001; Macak et al 2005),
a key material for applications in photovoltaic cells, batteries,   and methods involving chemical treatment of fine titania
chemical sensing (Varghese et al 2003), optical emissions,          particles (Kasuga et al 1998; Du et al 2001) have been
photonic crystals, catalysis, photocatalysis (Livraghi et al        reported to fabricate TiO2 nanotubes. There are respective
2005) and environmental purification (Homyara et al                 advantages and limitations in each of the above-men-
2001). Anatase TiO2 electrodes are used in solar cells,             tioned methods. However, technical problems may arise
lithium batteries and electrochromic devices (Hagfeldt              from the difficulties in achieving uniform inner diameter
and Gratzel 1995; Kavan et al 2000; Gratzel 2001).                  of titanium oxide nanotubes. In addition, oriented nano-
Nanocrystalline form of anatase TiO2 is a promising ele-            structures of the TiO2 nanotubes are often more desirable
ctrode material for Li-ion batteries, owing to its good Li-         for applications in photovoltaic cells, sensing, catalysis
storage capacity, cycling-stability and safety against              and photocatalysis. Template-synthesis method has been
overcharging (Huang et al 1995). Non-toxicity, environ-             used to prepare nanotubes or fibrils of electronically con-
mental compatibility and low price are other practical              ductive polymers (Martin et al 1993), metals (Martin
advantages of TiO2 . As a catalyst and/or catalyst support,         1996), semiconductors (Lakshmi et al 1997) and carbon
it is employed in the processes of photo degradation of             nanotubes (Maiyalagan and Viswanathan 2005). This
chlorine hydrocarbons. Recently, efforts have been directed         method entails synthesis of a desired material within the
to obtain nanostructured TiO2-based materials with a large          pores of an alumina membrane, which has cylindrical pores
specific surface area. The energy band structure becomes            with monodisperse diameters. The tubule of the desired
discrete for titanium dioxide of nanometer scale, and its           material is obtained within each pore. This template approach
photophysical, photochemical, and surface properties are            is proving to be a versatile method for synthesizing
quite different from those of the bulk ones due to the              nanomaterials because the aspect ratio of the nanostructu-
quantum size effect. TiO2 -based nanotubes have attracted           res prepared via this method can be controlled.
wide attention owing to their potential for application in             In this article, we report the sol–gel template synthesis
highly efficient photocatalysis (Adachi et al 2000), lithium        of ordered TiO2 nanotube of uniform diameter using alumina
ion batteries (Zhou et al 2003), photovoltaic cells                 membrane as a template. The composition and crystalli-
(Poulios et al 1998; Adachi et al 2002; Uchida et al                nity of these structures were determined by transmission
2002) and environmental applications (Quan et al 2005).             electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy
                                                                    (SEM), Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffrac-
                                                                    tion (XRD). The optical absorption spectra of these ordered
*Author for correspondence (bvnathan@iitm.ac.in)                    TiO2 nanotube arrays have also been investigated.

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706                              T Maiyalagan, B Viswanathan and U V Varadaraju

2.    Experimental                                                 2.3    Characterization methods

2.1 Materials                                                      The scanning electron micrographs were obtained after
                                                                   the removal of alumina template using a JEOL JSM-840
All the chemicals used were of analytical grade. Titanium          model, working at 15 keV. For transmission electron micro-
isopropoxide (Aldrich), 2-propanol (Merck) and Degussa             scopic studies, the nanotubes dispersed in ethanol were
P-25 titanium dioxide (Germany) were used as received              placed on the copper grid and the images were obtained
(BET surface area, 50 m2/g and anatase : rutile ratio, 80 : 20).   using Phillips 420 model, operating at 120 keV. The UV-
Anodisc alumina membranes with a pore size of 200 nm               vis absorption spectra were obtained on a Cary 5E spec-
and thickness of 60 µm were purchased from Whatman                 trophotometer. The X-ray diffraction patterns were obtai-
(catalog no. 6809-6022; Maidstone, UK).                            ned on a Philips PW 1820 diffractometer with CuKα
                                                                   (1⋅54178 Å) radiation. Micro-Raman scattering experi-
2.2 Synthesis of TiO2 nanotubes                                    ments were performed on a Bruker FRA106 FT-Raman at
                                                                   room temperature in a quasi-backscattering geometry
Titanium isopropoxide (5 ml) was added to 25 ml of 2-              with parallel polarization incident light. The excitation
propanol (mole ratio [Ti4+]/[2-propanol] = 1 : 20). The            source used was an Argon ion laser operating at 514⋅5 nm
solution was stirred for 3 h at room temperature (298 K).          with an output power of 20 mW.
The alumina template membrane was dipped into this
solution for 2 min. After removal from the solution, vacuum
was applied to the bottom of the membrane until the entire         3.    Results and discussion
volume of the solution was pulled through the membrane.
The membrane was then air-dried for 60 min at 303 K                The scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image of the
and then placed in a furnace (in air) with a temperature           TiO2 nanotubes obtained after dissolving the 200 nm alu-
ramp of 2°C min –1 to 873 K for 2 h. The temperature was           mina template membranes is shown in figure 1a. It can be
then decreased at a ramp rate of 2°C min –1 to room tem-           seen that an ordered array of nanotubes with uniform
perature (303 K). The ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays were            diameter and length is formed. The individual TiO2 nano-
obtained by dissolving the alumina template in 3 M aqueous         tubes were characterized by TEM after dissolving the
NaOH for several minutes. TiO2 nanotubes thus formed               alumina membrane template. The open end and the hollow
were then washed several times with distilled water to             nature of the TiO2 nanotubes have also been confirmed
remove the dissolved anodic alumina membrane and re-               by transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image as
maining NaOH solution.                                             shown in figure 1b. The TEM image shows that the single




             Figure 1. SEM image (a) and TEM image (b) of TiO2 nanotubes obtained by sol–gel method calcined
             at 650°C for 2 h.
Fabrication and characterization of uniform TiO2 nanotube arrays                                      707

TiO2 nanotube is straight and dense. The outer diameter         the valence band (VB) to the conduction band (CB). An
of the nanotube is ca. 200 nm, retaining the size and near      absorbance below 370 nm was observed for the TiO2
cylindrical shape of the pores of the aluminium oxide           nanotubes, which is ascribed to bulk anatase TiO2 . Here
membrane. This indicates that the diameter of the nano-         the blue shift of absorption maximum with higher band
tube synthesized is controlled by the pore size of aluminium    energy of TiO2 nanotubes compared with that of the bulk
oxide membrane. This result is in agreement with other          Degussa TiO2 can be attributed to the quantum-size effect
reports on the sol–gel based template method (Lee et al         (Takagahara and Takeda 1992).
2004).                                                             The powder XRD was used to investigate the phase of
   Figure 2 shows the UV-vis absorption spectrum of the         TiO2 nanotubes. The X-ray pattern of the TiO2 nanotube
anatase TiO2 nanotube compared with that of the Degussa         arrays is shown in figure 3(b). The diffraction peaks of
TiO2 . The spectral lines for both TiO2 nanotubes and De-       (101), (004), (200), (105) and (211) correspond to the
gussa TiO2 exhibit only one characteristic absorption           anatase TiO2 phase. The peak positions and their relative
band, which is assigned to the intrinsic transition from        intensities are consistent with the standard powder diffrac-
                                                                tion pattern of anatase-TiO2 and there is no preferred ori-
                                                                entation. Figure 3 shows that the crystal phase of TiO2
                                                                nanotubes is polycrystalline anatase structure whereas the
                                                                Degussa P-25 contains a mixture of anatase and rutile
                                                                phases. Further, no peaks for the amorphous alumina
                                                                membrane were observed in the TiO 2 nanotubes.
                                                                   The Raman spectra of fabricated anatase TiO2 nano-
                                                                tubes and Degussa TiO2 are shown in figure 4. The result
                                                                of XRD analysis is supported by the Raman spectra of
                                                                TiO2 nanotubes as shown in figure 4(b). The vibration
                                                                mode symmetries of the anatase are indicated. Raman
                                                                peaks at 156⋅9, 206, 408⋅48, 529⋅54, 649⋅54 and 801 cm–1
                                                                were assigned to E g, E g, B 1g, A 1g, E g and B 1g, respectively.
                                                                The positions and intensities of the six Raman active
                                                                modes correspond well with the anatase phase of TiO2
                                                                (Bersani and Lottici 1998; Lei et al 2001). A weak overtone
                                                                scattering (B 1g) at 801 cm –1 was observed in this study.
                                                                Overtone can be found in both bulk Degussa TiO2 and
                                                                nanotube, but the intensity of overtone is very less in bulk
                                                                Degussa TiO2 . This is due to the large intensity ratio of
Figure 2. UV-vis absorption spectrum of (a) Degussa TiO2
and (b) anatase TiO2 nanotube.




Figure 3. X-ray diffraction patterns of (a) Degussa TiO2 as a   Figure 4. Raman spectrum of (a) Degussa TiO2 and (b) fabri-
reference and (b) TiO2 nanotubes obtained by sol–gel method     cated anatase-TiO2 nanotube (The vibration mode symmetries
calcined at 650°C for 2 h anatase phase.                        of the anatase are indicated).
708                           T Maiyalagan, B Viswanathan and U V Varadaraju

fundamental peak to overtone one makes it difficult to be    Gratzel M 2001 Nature 414 338
observed. While for nanotube, the decreasing ratio makes     Gong D, Grimes C A, Varghese O K, Hu W, Singh R S, Chen Z
it easy to be observed. No significant broadening and          and Dickey E C 2001 J. Mater. Res. 16 3331
shift of Raman spectra were found when one compared          Hagfeldt A and Gratzel M 1995 Chem. Rev. 95 49
                                                             Homyara H et al 2001 Thin Solid Films 386 173
the obtained anatase-TiO2 nanotube with that of the bulk
                                                             Huang S Y, Kavan L, Gratzel M and Exnar I 1995 J. Electro-
Degussa TiO2 .                                                 chem. Soc. 142 142
                                                             Kasuga T, Hiramatsu M, Hoson A, Sekino T and Niihara K
4.    Conclusions                                              1998 Langmuir 14 3160
                                                             Kavan L, Attia A, Lenzmann F, Elder S H and Gratzel M 2000
                                                               J. Electrochem. Soc. 147 2897
In summary, highly ordered TiO2 nanotubes and nano-
                                                             Lakshmi B B, Patrissi C J and Martin C R 1997 Chem. Mater. 9
fibrils have been synthesized by sol–gel chemical method       2544
within the pores of anodic alumina template membrane.        Lee S, Jeon C and Park Y 2004 Chem. Mater. 16 4292
The results of SEM and TEM show that the synthesized         Lei Y, Zhang L D and Fan J C 2001 Chem. Phys. Lett. 338
nanotubes have a uniform length, diameter and form a           231
highly ordered array and the XRD measurements confirm        Livraghi S, Votta A, Paganini M C and Giamello E 2005 Chem.
the presence of polycrystalline anatase phase in the TiO2      Commun. 4 498
nanotubes. This method can be employed for obtaining         Macak J M, Tsuchiya H and Schmuki P 2005 Angew. Chem.
large surface area TiO2 for use in photocatalysis and as       Int. Ed. 44 2100
electrodes in solar cells.                                   Maiyalagan T and Viswanathan B 2005 Mater. Chem. Phys. 93
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We thank the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research   Poulios I, Kositzi M and Kouras A 1998 J. Photochem. Photo-
(CSIR), India, for a senior research fellowship to one of      biol. A: Chem. 115 175
the authors (TM).                                            Quan X, Yang S, Ruan X and Zhao H 2005 Environ. Sci. Tech-
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  • 1. Bull. Mater. Sci., Vol. 29, No. 7, December 2006, pp. 705–708. © Indian Academy of Sciences. Fabrication and characterization of uniform TiO2 nanotube arrays by sol–gel template method T MAIYALAGAN, B VISWANATHAN* and U V VARADARAJU Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India MS received 11 October 2005; revised 18 September 2006 Abstract. TiO 2 nanotubes have been synthesized by sol–gel template method using alumina membrane. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy, UV ab- sorption spectrum and X-ray diffraction techniques have been used to investigate the structure, morphology and optical properties of TiO 2 nanotubes. SEM image showed that TiO 2 nanotubes obtained were ordered and uniform. The diameter and length of the nanotubes were decided by the pore size and thickness of alumina template. Raman and XRD measurements confirmed the crystallinity and anatase phase of the TiO 2 nano- tubes. The optical absorption measurement of TiO 2 nanotubes exhibits a blue shift with respect to that of the bulk TiO 2 owing to the quantum size effect. Keywords. TiO 2 nanotubes; Raman spectra; template synthesis; alumina template. 1. Introduction Many approaches such as template-assisted method (Sander et al 2004), electrochemical anodic oxidation of Titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) has been widely investigated as pure titanium sheet (Gong et al 2001; Macak et al 2005), a key material for applications in photovoltaic cells, batteries, and methods involving chemical treatment of fine titania chemical sensing (Varghese et al 2003), optical emissions, particles (Kasuga et al 1998; Du et al 2001) have been photonic crystals, catalysis, photocatalysis (Livraghi et al reported to fabricate TiO2 nanotubes. There are respective 2005) and environmental purification (Homyara et al advantages and limitations in each of the above-men- 2001). Anatase TiO2 electrodes are used in solar cells, tioned methods. However, technical problems may arise lithium batteries and electrochromic devices (Hagfeldt from the difficulties in achieving uniform inner diameter and Gratzel 1995; Kavan et al 2000; Gratzel 2001). of titanium oxide nanotubes. In addition, oriented nano- Nanocrystalline form of anatase TiO2 is a promising ele- structures of the TiO2 nanotubes are often more desirable ctrode material for Li-ion batteries, owing to its good Li- for applications in photovoltaic cells, sensing, catalysis storage capacity, cycling-stability and safety against and photocatalysis. Template-synthesis method has been overcharging (Huang et al 1995). Non-toxicity, environ- used to prepare nanotubes or fibrils of electronically con- mental compatibility and low price are other practical ductive polymers (Martin et al 1993), metals (Martin advantages of TiO2 . As a catalyst and/or catalyst support, 1996), semiconductors (Lakshmi et al 1997) and carbon it is employed in the processes of photo degradation of nanotubes (Maiyalagan and Viswanathan 2005). This chlorine hydrocarbons. Recently, efforts have been directed method entails synthesis of a desired material within the to obtain nanostructured TiO2-based materials with a large pores of an alumina membrane, which has cylindrical pores specific surface area. The energy band structure becomes with monodisperse diameters. The tubule of the desired discrete for titanium dioxide of nanometer scale, and its material is obtained within each pore. This template approach photophysical, photochemical, and surface properties are is proving to be a versatile method for synthesizing quite different from those of the bulk ones due to the nanomaterials because the aspect ratio of the nanostructu- quantum size effect. TiO2 -based nanotubes have attracted res prepared via this method can be controlled. wide attention owing to their potential for application in In this article, we report the sol–gel template synthesis highly efficient photocatalysis (Adachi et al 2000), lithium of ordered TiO2 nanotube of uniform diameter using alumina ion batteries (Zhou et al 2003), photovoltaic cells membrane as a template. The composition and crystalli- (Poulios et al 1998; Adachi et al 2002; Uchida et al nity of these structures were determined by transmission 2002) and environmental applications (Quan et al 2005). electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffrac- tion (XRD). The optical absorption spectra of these ordered *Author for correspondence (bvnathan@iitm.ac.in) TiO2 nanotube arrays have also been investigated. 705
  • 2. 706 T Maiyalagan, B Viswanathan and U V Varadaraju 2. Experimental 2.3 Characterization methods 2.1 Materials The scanning electron micrographs were obtained after the removal of alumina template using a JEOL JSM-840 All the chemicals used were of analytical grade. Titanium model, working at 15 keV. For transmission electron micro- isopropoxide (Aldrich), 2-propanol (Merck) and Degussa scopic studies, the nanotubes dispersed in ethanol were P-25 titanium dioxide (Germany) were used as received placed on the copper grid and the images were obtained (BET surface area, 50 m2/g and anatase : rutile ratio, 80 : 20). using Phillips 420 model, operating at 120 keV. The UV- Anodisc alumina membranes with a pore size of 200 nm vis absorption spectra were obtained on a Cary 5E spec- and thickness of 60 µm were purchased from Whatman trophotometer. The X-ray diffraction patterns were obtai- (catalog no. 6809-6022; Maidstone, UK). ned on a Philips PW 1820 diffractometer with CuKα (1⋅54178 Å) radiation. Micro-Raman scattering experi- 2.2 Synthesis of TiO2 nanotubes ments were performed on a Bruker FRA106 FT-Raman at room temperature in a quasi-backscattering geometry Titanium isopropoxide (5 ml) was added to 25 ml of 2- with parallel polarization incident light. The excitation propanol (mole ratio [Ti4+]/[2-propanol] = 1 : 20). The source used was an Argon ion laser operating at 514⋅5 nm solution was stirred for 3 h at room temperature (298 K). with an output power of 20 mW. The alumina template membrane was dipped into this solution for 2 min. After removal from the solution, vacuum was applied to the bottom of the membrane until the entire 3. Results and discussion volume of the solution was pulled through the membrane. The membrane was then air-dried for 60 min at 303 K The scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image of the and then placed in a furnace (in air) with a temperature TiO2 nanotubes obtained after dissolving the 200 nm alu- ramp of 2°C min –1 to 873 K for 2 h. The temperature was mina template membranes is shown in figure 1a. It can be then decreased at a ramp rate of 2°C min –1 to room tem- seen that an ordered array of nanotubes with uniform perature (303 K). The ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays were diameter and length is formed. The individual TiO2 nano- obtained by dissolving the alumina template in 3 M aqueous tubes were characterized by TEM after dissolving the NaOH for several minutes. TiO2 nanotubes thus formed alumina membrane template. The open end and the hollow were then washed several times with distilled water to nature of the TiO2 nanotubes have also been confirmed remove the dissolved anodic alumina membrane and re- by transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image as maining NaOH solution. shown in figure 1b. The TEM image shows that the single Figure 1. SEM image (a) and TEM image (b) of TiO2 nanotubes obtained by sol–gel method calcined at 650°C for 2 h.
  • 3. Fabrication and characterization of uniform TiO2 nanotube arrays 707 TiO2 nanotube is straight and dense. The outer diameter the valence band (VB) to the conduction band (CB). An of the nanotube is ca. 200 nm, retaining the size and near absorbance below 370 nm was observed for the TiO2 cylindrical shape of the pores of the aluminium oxide nanotubes, which is ascribed to bulk anatase TiO2 . Here membrane. This indicates that the diameter of the nano- the blue shift of absorption maximum with higher band tube synthesized is controlled by the pore size of aluminium energy of TiO2 nanotubes compared with that of the bulk oxide membrane. This result is in agreement with other Degussa TiO2 can be attributed to the quantum-size effect reports on the sol–gel based template method (Lee et al (Takagahara and Takeda 1992). 2004). The powder XRD was used to investigate the phase of Figure 2 shows the UV-vis absorption spectrum of the TiO2 nanotubes. The X-ray pattern of the TiO2 nanotube anatase TiO2 nanotube compared with that of the Degussa arrays is shown in figure 3(b). The diffraction peaks of TiO2 . The spectral lines for both TiO2 nanotubes and De- (101), (004), (200), (105) and (211) correspond to the gussa TiO2 exhibit only one characteristic absorption anatase TiO2 phase. The peak positions and their relative band, which is assigned to the intrinsic transition from intensities are consistent with the standard powder diffrac- tion pattern of anatase-TiO2 and there is no preferred ori- entation. Figure 3 shows that the crystal phase of TiO2 nanotubes is polycrystalline anatase structure whereas the Degussa P-25 contains a mixture of anatase and rutile phases. Further, no peaks for the amorphous alumina membrane were observed in the TiO 2 nanotubes. The Raman spectra of fabricated anatase TiO2 nano- tubes and Degussa TiO2 are shown in figure 4. The result of XRD analysis is supported by the Raman spectra of TiO2 nanotubes as shown in figure 4(b). The vibration mode symmetries of the anatase are indicated. Raman peaks at 156⋅9, 206, 408⋅48, 529⋅54, 649⋅54 and 801 cm–1 were assigned to E g, E g, B 1g, A 1g, E g and B 1g, respectively. The positions and intensities of the six Raman active modes correspond well with the anatase phase of TiO2 (Bersani and Lottici 1998; Lei et al 2001). A weak overtone scattering (B 1g) at 801 cm –1 was observed in this study. Overtone can be found in both bulk Degussa TiO2 and nanotube, but the intensity of overtone is very less in bulk Degussa TiO2 . This is due to the large intensity ratio of Figure 2. UV-vis absorption spectrum of (a) Degussa TiO2 and (b) anatase TiO2 nanotube. Figure 3. X-ray diffraction patterns of (a) Degussa TiO2 as a Figure 4. Raman spectrum of (a) Degussa TiO2 and (b) fabri- reference and (b) TiO2 nanotubes obtained by sol–gel method cated anatase-TiO2 nanotube (The vibration mode symmetries calcined at 650°C for 2 h anatase phase. of the anatase are indicated).
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