A team of material scientists led by Prof. Qi Li from Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China recently outlined the state of inducing piezoelectricity in distorted rutile TiO 2 for enhanced ...

Under ambient conditions, almost all metals are coated by an oxide. These coatings, the result of a chemical reaction, are not passive. Many of them bind, activate and modify adsorbed molecules, ...

Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) is a popular whitening additive, used in countless white colored commercial products such as paper, plastics, toothpaste, fabrics, and paint. When it is prepared as a powder ...

An article in Physical Review Letters, which was written by a group of researchers led by Qinggao Wang from MIPT's Laboratory of Computer Design of New Materials, investigates the surface of titanium ...