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SUBMITTER: Benkoula S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4604456 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Benkoula Safia S Sublemontier Olivier O Patanen Minna M Nicolas Christophe C Sirotti Fausto F Naitabdi Ahmed A Gaie-Levrel François F Antonsson Egill E Aureau Damien D Ouf François-Xavier FX Wada Shin-ichi S Etcheberry Arnaud A Ueda Kiyoshi K Miron Catalin C
Scientific reports 20151014
We describe an experimental method to probe the adsorption of water at the surface of isolated, substrate-free TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) based on soft X-ray spectroscopy in the gas phase using synchrotron radiation. To understand the interfacial properties between water and TiO2 surface, a water shell was adsorbed at the surface of TiO2 NPs. We used two different ways to control the hydration level of the NPs: in the first scheme, initially solvated NPs were dried and in the second one, dry NPs g ...[more]