Novel Process of Submicron-Scale Ceramic Rod Array Formation on Metallic Substrate

Kazuya Okamoto

Kazuya Okamoto

Biomaterials Laboratory, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

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Satoshi HayakawaKanji Tsuru

Kanji Tsuru

Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

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Akiyoshi Osaka
First published: 01 December 2009

Summary

In this chapter, nano-scale rods of titania and tungsten oxide are fabricated on metallic titanium and tungsten substrates by heat-treatment in vacuo. The surface structure and morphology are characterized by Thin-film X-ray diffraction analysis (TF-XRD) and scanning electron microscopy. The TF-XRD analysis indicated that the thermal treatment in vacuo (6.7 x10−2 Pa) gave TiO2 and WO3 nano-scale rod arrays. The mechanism of the nano-scale rod array formation was explained by the structure matching due to topotaxy and the crystal growth habit.

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