SELF-ORGANIZED TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBE LAYERS: INFLUENCE OF REPETITIVE ANODIZATIONS

1 MACAK Jan
Co-authors:
1 SOPHA Hanna 2 KNOTEK Petr
Institutions:
1 CEMNAT, FCHT, University of Pardubice, Nam. Cs. Legii 565, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic, EU, jan.macak@upce.cz
2 KOANCH, FCHT, University of Pardubice, Studentska 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic, EU
Conference:
7th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 14th - 16th 2015
Proceedings:
Proceedings 7th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
33-38
ISBN:
978-80-87294-59-8
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
11th January 2016
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

In the present work we report on the influence of repetitive anodization cycles upon the dimensions and morphology of self-organized TiO2 nanotube layers. Electrolytes based on ethylene glycol (containing water and NH4F) and widely used Titanium thin foils as substrates were utilized. These substrates were repetitively anodized, a total 3 times, and the resulting layers were removed and analyzed after each anodization step. Investigations by SEM show that, overall, nanotubes within nanotube layers produced by the repetitive anodization on one identical substrate, grow so that the tube diameter becomes gradually smaller. In addition, investigations carried out by AFM and mechanical profilometry show that repetitive anodization lead to significant smoothing (or polishing) of initially coarse substrates – this aspect is somewhat surprisingly not discussed in the existing literature. As a result, before each new anodization step, the nanotube layers grow on gradually smoother substrates with positive implications on the overall nanotube layer uniformity.

Keywords: Titanium dioxide; Nanotubes; Anodization; Roughness, Smoothening

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