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, ...

Using numerical modelling, researchers from Russia, the US, and China have discovered previously unknown features of rutile TiO2, which is a promising photocatalyst. The calculations were performed at ...

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 ...

Using numerical modeling, the joint research team from Russia, USA, and China has discovered new surface features of rutile TiO2, which is a promising photocatalyst "Our work has broadened the current ...

In crystallography, atomic planes are written as three figures in brackets: each digit represents the intersection between the plane and one of the crystallographic axes a, b, and c. Parallel planes ...

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 ...