Impact on preferred orientation and crystal strain behavior of nanocrystal anatase-TiO2 by X-ray diffraction technique

Abstract

The primary goal of this research outline is the conversion of titanium isopropoxide (TTIP) at 50.0 °C to form a high crystalline preferred oriented predominant (101) with a low crystal strain of 90.0 % anatase-TiO2 phase. With the interval of time, the peptizing agent (IP) reacts to an acidic aqueous medium and preferential growth of anatase-TiO2 has been identified. Exhaustive recombination in X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis ensures the crystal strain, lattice volume, lattice parameters, d-spacing and crystallite size. UV–vis-NIR showed maximum absorption of 320.0 nm with 0.78 a.u. at blue shift for decreasing nano-size and smaller bandgap 3.0313 eV of larger dimensions anatase-TiO2. The preferred orientation also revealed by nanobeam diffraction (NBD) of TEM enables qualitative lattice type and highly crystal orientated predominant (101) plane 5.60 nm−1 in a diffraction pattern imposed on 200.0 kv parallel electron bean from LaB6 filament.

Keywords

• Anatase
• Bandgap
• Crystallinity
• Preferred orientation
• Strain