Research Article

Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B Dye by Aligned Arrays of Self-Assembled Hydrogen Titanate Nanotubes

Figure 1

X-ray diffraction patterns of the (a) precursor oxidized Ti foil showing the pure rutile phase of TiO2, (b) aligned H2Ti3O7 nanotube array showing preferential growth along <200> direction of the monoclinic tri-titanate phase, and (c) free H2Ti3O7 nanotube powder.
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