Abstract
Different from organic molecules and metal complexes, which can be identified by chemical composition and structural characteristics such as NMR spectra, inorganic solid materials especially metal oxides cannot be identified, i.e., their purity cannot be evaluated in a strict scientific sense, because at least three structural parameters, bulk structure, surface structure and bulk/surface size, must be determined. However, in the other words, solid metal-oxide samples can be assigned to be "pure", if their three parameters are determined, by macroscopic measurements, to be uniform. Here, attempts to prepare octahedral-shaped anatase titanium(IV) oxide (titania) particles (OAPs) of uniform bulk structure (anatase with negligible non-crystalline components), surface structure (only exposing {101} facets) and particle size are reported as the first and sole example of a "pure" metal-oxide powder. In this study, OAP samples were prepared by sonication-hydrothermal (HT) reaction of potassium-titanate nanowires. Characterization of the samples by Rietveld analysis of XRD patterns, reversed double-beam photoacoustic spectroscopy and SEM observations revealed the homogeneousness of crystalline bulk, surface and particle size, respectively, to indicate the samples "pure".
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