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Research ArticleSurface Organic Modification of TiO2 Powder andRelevant Characterization
Hong Zhou Sijia Sun and Hao Ding
Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Utilization of Nonmetallic Minerals and Solid Wastes National Laboratory of Mineral MaterialsSchool of Materials Science and Technology China University of Geosciences Beijing 100083 China
Correspondence should be addressed to Hao Ding dinghaocugbeducn
Received 9 November 2016 Revised 11 January 2017 Accepted 24 January 2017 Published 2 May 2017
Academic Editor Michele Iafisco
Copyright copy 2017 Hong Zhou et al This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensewhich permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited
Surface organic modification was conducted to TiO2with modifiers to improve the dispersity and comparability of pigment
TiO2in application system by adjusting particle surface characteristics Then modification effects were characterized according
to the changes in wetting contact angle and activation index of TiO2before and after modification Moreover the modification
mechanisms of sodium stearate and sodium oleate were studied by analyzing the characteristics of TiO2surface functional groups
inmodification system and effects ofmodifiersThe results showed that after beingwet-processedwith sodium stearate and sodiumoleate TiO
2could turn from surface hydrophilic to inductive hydrophobic with controllable degree The wetting contact angle of
modified TiO2increased from 7∘ to 1256∘ and 1213∘ respectively The dispersity of TiO
2in organic medium was stronger than
that in inorganic medium The modifiers formed absorption with chemical property on TiO2particle surface so the inductive
hydrophobicity of surface was stable
1 Introduction
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is metallic oxide with excellent
physical and chemical properties Its particle in submicronscale (02ndash03120583m) is the component of the best whitepigment nanometer TiO
2(less than 100 nm) is excellent
photocatalytic materialTherefore TiO2draws general atten-
tion With properties of high refractive index no toxicitystrong stability high brightness high covering power andso forth TiO
2has been widely used in fields of coating
plastic papermaking printing ink chemical fiber and soforth [1ndash7] As the photocatalyst nanometer TiO
2is applied
in fields of water and air purification [8ndash11] breaking downprocedures of organic pollutant degradation [12 13] medicalwaste treatment [14 15] and so forth Actually above prop-erties and their roles are dependent on the control over thepurity crystal form and size distribution of TiO
2powder
in synthesis and preparation Moreover the postprocessingis also important in optimizing the surface morphologyand compatibility with application system Therefore theprocessing for TiO
2powder is necessary when improving the
application performance
Micro-nano TiO2is poor in compatibility with high
polymer material because of small grain size high surfaceenergy and especially strong hydrophilia for surface hydrox-ylation Actually the bad dispersity and agglomeration ofTiO2in organic system impede its pigment performance or
photocatalytic performance However this problem can besolved by improving the dispersity of TiO
2in application
system In the way of particle surface modification thesurface wettability can be adjusted and the morphologyof surface functional groups be changed Guosheng et alconducted surface organic modification to nano-TiO
2par-
ticle with silane coupling agent The results show that TiO2
turns from surface hydrophilic to surface hydrophobic [16]In addition TiO
2particle was also modified with sodium
stearate and polyethylene glycol lauryl sodium sulfate andtriethanolamine and sodium hexametaphosphate by Gang etal [17] Xihai et al [18] Hui [19] Ding et al [20ndash22] andWeng et al [23] respectively All of these studies show that thedispersity of TiO
2improves in corresponding medium This
work also indicates that the application effects of modifierswith carboxylic in structure are more ideal among abovemodifiers [24ndash26] Except for surface modifier it is also
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important to make preassessment for TiO2modification
effects At present the surface modification of powder ismainly evaluated by measurement with contact angle [2728] and activation index [29] However the modificationeffects and stability of changed surface wettability cannot beevaluated Moreover the modification mechanism cannot bereflected with the interaction between modifier and TiO
2
particle This work conducted surface modification to TiO2
particle in micrometer scale by wet-modification with mod-ifiers sodium stearate and sodium oleate Suspension wasprepared with TiO
2powder and water in the weight ratio of
1 1 and heated to and fixed at 65∘CThen appropriate dosageof modifier was added to adjust pH value of modifier equalto or smaller than 7 The modified suspension was obtainedafter 30 minutes of heat preservation and constant stirringAfter drying and dispersing the modified suspension mod-ified TiO
2powder can be obtained Then the modification
effects of TiO2were characterized according to the changes
of wetting contact angle and activation index in differentliquid mediums before and after modification Finally themodificationmechanisms of TiO
2were studied by testing the
infrared spectrums and analyzing the morphology of surfacefunctional groups before and after modification with sodiumstearate and sodium oleate
2 Experiments
21 Raw Materials and Reagent TiO2used in tests was
anatase-type titanium oxide powder manufactured by HenanBillions Chemicals Co Ltd In sample test the particle sizewas median diameter (119889
50) of 037 120583m specific surface area
was 6125m2gminus1 whiteness was 9880 covering powerwas 1299 gm2 oil absorption was 2440 g100 g and water-wetting contact angle was 7∘
Theorganicmodifiers in test sodium stearate and sodiumoleate were all chemically pure reagents provided by BeijingJingweiHuabo Co Ltd The reagents should be disposed as5 water solution by heating
22 Process of TiO2 Organic Modification Surface modifica-tion for TiO
2was conducted by water suspension wet surface
modification Suspension was prepared with TiO2powder
and water in weight ratio of 1 1 (solid content 50) andheated to constant temperature (65∘C) Then the modifiersolution was added to TiO
2water suspension by ratio to
adjust the pH value equal to or less than 7 Modified sus-pension was obtained after thermal insulation and constantstirring for 30 minutes TiO
2powder can be obtained after
drying and dispersing the modified suspension
23 Performance and Structural Characterization231 Wetting Contact Angle Contact angle (120579) refers to theincluded angle between gas-liquid surface and solid-liquidsurface (including liquid) in the junction of three phasesgas liquid and solid As the physical quantity quantitativelyreflecting the wetting degree on solid surface contact anglecan represent the change in surface characteristics of TiO
2
before and aftermodificationTherefore contact angle can be
used to determine the modification effects When measuringthe angle the sample to be tested should be pressed asthe solid slice with smooth surface Then contact anglegauge (JC2000D Shanghai powereach digital technologyequipment Co Ltd) should be used to measure and takephoto of wetting contact angle
232 Activation Index Activation index refers to the per-centage of powder floating on the water-gas interfaceaccounting for the total volume after mixing the modifiedpowder in water Particles with surface hydrophobicity mayfloat on the interface in the comprehensive action of adhesiveforce gravity buoyancy water pressure and so forth inmoist periphery of three phases The stronger the surfacehydrophobicity of particle is the greater the adhesive forcein moist periphery and the larger the floating trend willbe Therefore the floating powder can intuitively reflect thesurface modification effects
2 g modified sample was correctly weighed and placedin pear-shaped funnel with 200mL water After oscillationand stewing the sedimentation at bottom in hierarchy wasintroduced to beaker for drying and weighingThe activationindex of sample119867 could be calculated by following formula
119867 =Sedimentation quantity in total quality
Total qualitytimes 100 (1)
233 Infrared Spectroscopy Infrared spectroscopy analysiscan be used to detect various keys in molecule structureof functional group and binding characteristics of differentparts in composite materials After compressing the sampleto be tested and KBr Spectrum 100 infrared spectrometricanalyzer manufactured by Shanghai PerkinElmer Co Ltdwas used for infrared spectrometry and analysis The scan-ning scope of instrument was 4000 cmminus1ndash400 cmminus1 and theresolution ratio was 3 cmminus1
3 Results and Discussion
31 Change of Modified TiO2 Wetting Contact Angle withModifiers and Dosage Figure 1 shows the influences ofmodifier dosage on the contact angle of TiO
2wetted by
water after TiO2particles weremodifiedwith sodium stearate
and sodium oleate Figure 2 shows the microscopic image ofwetting contact angle
According to Figure 1 the contact angle continuouslyenlarged with the increase of modifier dosage after TiO
2is
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleateThe anglesare 1256∘ (modified with sodium stearate) and 1213∘ (mod-ified with sodium oleate) larger than 90∘ critical betweenhydrophile and hydrophobicity when modifier dosage is15 The contact angle of TiO
2is 7∘ before modification
Obviously TiO2surface has turned from strong hydrophilia
to hydrophobicity after modification However the wettingcontact angle on TiO
2surface decreases in small range when
the dosage further increasesThe results show that bothmod-ifiers can change the wettability of TiO
2surface Moreover
the hydrophobicity formed in modification can be controlledwith modifier dosage In other words the wettability on
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00 05 10 15 20 25 30
0
50
100
150
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Figure 1 The wetting contact angle of modified TiO2in water
TiO2particle surface and its degree are controllable Figure 2
intuitively reflects the changes in Figure 1In this work TiO
2wasmodifiedwith sodium stearate and
sodiumoleate (in dosage of 15) respectively Figure 3 showsthe contact angles of modified product and unmodified TiO
2
wetted by water absolute ethyl alcohol and kerosene It canbe seen that the contact angle of modified TiO
2wetted by
absolute ethyl alcohol is about 21∘ while the angle wettedby water is larger than 120∘ (see Figure 1) This means thatthe hydrophilia of TiO
2with alcohol is stronger than that
with water because alcohol has double characters of organicsand water Therefore modified TiO
2with surface strong
hydrophobicity has stronger wetting action than water Thewetting contact angle of modified TiO
2in kerosene (organic
nonpolar solvent) is slightly smaller than that in ethyl alcohol(less than 20∘) In other words the hydrophilia of modifiedTiO2in kerosene is much stronger than that in alcohol
It means that the surface of modified TiO2particle has
stronger organic nonpolarity Moreover the above resultsfurther specify that modifiers form the effective absorptionon the surface of TiO
2particle so the particle turns from
surface hydrophilia to hydrophobicity Figure 3 also showsthat the contact angle of unmodified TiO
2wetted by alcohol
and kerosene is about 20∘ larger than that wetted by waterIn other words the wetness degree of alcohol and keroseneis lower than water This means that unmodified TiO
2has
strong surface hydrophilicityBefore and after modification wetting contact angle of
TiO2particles changed in differentmediumsThismeans that
TiO2particle has extremely strong hydrophilia which may
turn to strong hydrophobicity after organicmodificationThewettability of modified TiO
2particle in organic medium is
stronger than that in inorganic medium which is beneficialto the improvement of dispersity in organic medium
32 Changes in Activation Index of Modified TiO2 Activationindex is an important index evaluating modification The
stronger the hydrophobicity TiO2particles are the larger
the activation index will be Figure 4 shows the changes inactivation index of TiO
2powdermodified by sodium stearate
and sodium oleate According to the figure the activationindex of modified TiO
2greatly increases with the dosages
of sodium stearate and sodium oleate increasing from 0to 15 and from 0 to 1 respectively Moreover theactivation index reached the maximum 986 and 897when the dosages of sodium stearate and sodium oleatewere 15 and 1 respectively However with the furtherincrease of sodium stearate and sodium oleate the activationindex of TiO
2may slightly decrease or keep stable This is
because the surface modification of TiO2is incomplete if the
modifier dosage is little so the activation index is small Withthe increase of modifier dosage however the unimolecularcoverage is realized with modifier on the surface of TiO
2
to make the modifier dosage saturated At this time theactivation index is the maximum If the modifier dosagefurther increases multilayer coats will form on the surfaceof TiO
2particles to make some types of group outward and
reduce the hydrophobicity of TiO2 Therefore the activation
index will decrease The change of activation index showsthat after modifying the sodium stearate and sodium oleateof TiO
2 the hydrophilia on surface will turn to strong
hydrophobic effectsThis is obviously the interaction betweenTiO2particle andmodifiermolecule as well as the coating on
the surface of TiO2[30 31]
This means that TiO2surface turns from hydrophilia
to strong hydrophobicity after being modified with sodiumstearate and sodiumoleateThis is obviously the result of TiO
2
particle and modifier molecule covering TiO2surface Above
results are consistent with the analysis on contact angle test
33 Function Mechanism of Modifiers and TiO2 Particle
331 IR Analysis on TiO2 Modified with Sodium Stearate andSodium Oleate The mechanism of TiO
2surface showing
strong hydrophobicity can be further understood and hydro-phobicity stability be determined by studying the proper-ties of interaction between modifiers sodium stearate andsodium oleate and TiO
2surfaceTherefore the infrared spec-
troscopies were measured for sodium stearate and sodiumoleate as well as TiO
2modified by these two modifiers
Figures 5 and 6 show the measurement resultsFigure 5 shows that there are symmetrical and dis-
symmetrical characteristic absorption peaks of -CH2- at
2917 cmminus1 and 2849 cmminus1 in the infrared spectroscopy ofsodium stearate (see Figure 5(a)) Moreover there is charac-teristic absorption peak of -CH
3at 2956 cmminus1 and stretching
absorption peaks of carbonyl (C=O) and carboxyl (COO-) at1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 All of these reflect the structuralcharacteristics of sodium stearate Compared with raw mate-rial of sodium stearate and TiO
2 there are absorption peaks
at 2996 cmminus1 and 2885 cmminus1 in the infrared spectroscopy ofmodified TiO
2 This is obviously the characteristics of -CH
2-
and -CH3 showing that sodium stearate has attached to TiO
2
surfaceAccording to the comparison the absorption peak of
modified TiO2at 1504 cmminus1 resulted from the displacement
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(a) (b) (c)
Figure 2 Microscopic image of wet contact angle of TiO2 (a)Wet contact angle of TiO
2 (b) wet contact angle of modified TiO
2with sodium
stearate and (c) wet contact angle of modified TiO2with sodium oleate
Water Ethanol Kerosene0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Medium
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Ti2
Ti2 modied by sodium stearate Ti2 modied by sodium oleate
Figure 3 Change of wet contact angle of TiO2
00 05 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 4550
60
70
80
90
100
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Activ
atio
n in
dex
()
Figure 4 Activation index of modified TiO2with the amount of
modifier
of absorption peaks at 1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 in theinfrared spectrum of sodium stearate It means that thechemical environment of C=O and -COOminus had significantchange after sodium stearate reacted with TiO
2 This may
result from the chemical action between functional group ofsodium stearate and surface functional group of TiO
2(the
hydroxide radical produced in Ti or Ti hydrolysis)Thereforeit is believed that the attachment of sodium stearate to TiO
2
particle surface has chemical properties Sodium stearateis closely and firmly combined with TiO
2particle so the
changes in surface characteristics of TiO2formodification are
stableAs shown in Figure 6 the infrared spectral features of
TiO2modified with sodium oleate are similar to those of
TiO2modified with sodium stearate In the infrared spec-
troscopy ofmodifiedTiO2 there are characteristic absorption
peaks representing methylene and methyl at 2852 cmminus1 and2922 cmminus1 This means that sodium oleate has attached toTiO2surface The absorption peak at 1465 cmminus1 indicates
that chemical action occurred between -COOminus and TiO2
in sodium oleate Therefore sodium oleate is also closelycombined with TiO
2particle for stable modification of TiO
2
332 Functional Group Morphology of TiO2 Particle Surfacein Water Medium TiO
2is one of the most typical oxides
of surface hydroxylation while the surface hydroxylation ofTiO2as the semiconductor material is complex with various
hydroxyl groups Perrinmade quantitative analysis on hydra-tion reaction of titanium ion (Ti4+) in water medium Thehydration reactions of Ti4+ in different levels and constantsare as follows [32]
Ti4+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)3+ +H+ p119896
1= 1415 (2)
Ti (OH)3+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)22+ +H+ p119896
2= 1373 (3)
Ti(OH)22+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)3
+ +H+ p1198963= 1339 (4)
Ti(OH)3+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)4 +H
+ p1198964= 1306 (5)
p1198961= log[Ti (OH)3+] [H+][Ti4+]
(6)
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(a)
(b)
(c)
295645291743
284997206118 155795
162936
147050
144221
142101
11878771908
345844
107579 61339
7944046433
344800292663
285714 206239
162797155804
109379
79554
61028
5174846357
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400(cGminus1)
Figure 5 IR of TiO2modified by sodium stearate (a) Sodium stearate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400
206118
162936
345844
107579
79440
61339
46433
343790
292771285714 206184
162797155804
105300
79581
61101
4632351748
1094
59
965
1192
366
823
7572
194 69
884 537
24
1345
91
1318
01
1378
181
1278
58
1233
75
1560
90
1462
65
1446
29
1425
05
(cGminus1)
2851
2830
095
5
2921
60
Figure 6 IR of TiO2modified by sodium oleate (a) Sodium oleate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
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p1198962= log[Ti(OH)2
2+] [H+]
[Ti (OH)3+](7)
p1198963= log[Ti(OH)3
+] [H+][Ti (OH)2
2+](8)
p1198964= log[Ti (OH)4] [H
+][Ti(OH)3
+](9)
Therefore the relationship between components Ti4+Ti(OH)3+ Ti(OH)
2
2+ Ti(OH)3
+ and Ti(OH)4 and pH value
(minus log[H+]) is shown in Figure 7 [32]Figure 7 shows that with the increase of pH value in
system Ti4+ tends to generate polyhydroxy When pH lt 1Ti(OH)
2
2+ is taken as the principal when pH=2 Ti(OH)3
+ istaken as the principal when pHgt 4 Ti4+ will turn to Ti(OH)
4
component The result also shows that even when pH = 0sim1the concentration of OHminus in system is extremely small If theexternal action of hydrolysis is weak no Ti4+ and Ti(OH)3+
component is representedmeaning that the capability of Ti4+is strong in generating various hydroxylates It is obviousbecause the constants (pk
1simpk4) of Ti4+ hydrolysis reaction
in different levels keep in very high value (1306sim1415)The hydroxylation characteristic of unsaturated Ti on
TiO2surface can be deducted according to the hydrolysis
behavior of Ti4+ In other words Ti is covered by a largeamount of hydroxyl so surface functional groups of TiO
2are
mainly OH-group as shown in Figure 8 [33] This is similarwith the molecule model of TiO
2with surface attached with
water proposed by Huaxiang and Xuxu [33]
333 DissociationMorphology of SodiumStearate and SodiumOleate in Water Solution The molecular formula of sodiumstearate is CH
3(CH2)16COONa while that of sodium oleate
is CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH
2)7COONa (R-COONa for short)
Both of them are composed of long chain of polar hydrophiliccarboxyl and nonpolar hydrophobic alkane They can dis-solve in water solution and then the dissolved componentsare rehydrated The reaction formula is as follows
R-COONa 997888rarr R-COOminus + Na+ (10)
R-COOminus +H2O 997888rarr R-COOH +OHminus (11)
Dianzuo and Yuehua [34] studied the relationshipbetween the concentration of R-COO and R-COOH insodium oleate solution and pH value (see Figure 9) [34] Thefigure shows that the main morphology of R-COONa is R-COOH in the modification condition of TiO
2 and only few
R-COONa have coexistence of R-COOHandR-COOminus in thiswork Therefore it is believed that the action groups of TiO
2
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleate are mainlyR-COOH followed by R-COOminus
334 Model of Action between Modifier and TiO2 SurfaceThemodification mechanism of sodium stearate and sodiumoleate can be obtained according to above analysis on surfacefunctional groups of TiO
2particle and the dissociation
0 1 2 3 4 50
20
40
60
80
100
pH
Dist
ribut
ion
rate
Ti(OH)44C(()2
2+
4C(()3+
Figure 7 Distribution of Ti4+ hydrolysis component with pH value
O
O
H
OH
Ti
Ti
O OHTi
O HTi
TiO OH
Figure 8 Schematic diagram of TiO2surface adsorbed hydroxyl
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14pH
middotmiddotmiddot
FIAC
RCOO(()
RCOO((K)
RCOminus
RCOOH-RCOminus
(2minus)22minus
Figure 9 Distribution of sodium oleic acid in aqueous solution
morphology ofmodifiers Firstly R-COOH forms a hydrogenbond with OHminus on TiO
2particle surface for combination by
dihydroxylation reaction The combination can be realizedby forming hydrogen bond with C=O and OHminus on TiO
2
surface throughR-COOminusTherefore themodifier R-COONafirmly attaches to TiO
2particle surface to make organic
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Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
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[29] L Qinfu and X Xu ldquoEvaluation and Mechanism Study on theeffect of surface modification of kaolin in coal seriesrdquo Journal ofMaterials Science vol 14 no 3 pp 325ndash328 2009
[30] N Li G-z Ma and B-s Xu ldquoStudy on modification and prop-erties of calcined kaolin with stearic acidrdquo Applied ChemicalIndustry vol 38 no 8 pp 1136ndash1138 2009
[31] L Lihua ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of zinc boraterdquo Journalof Tangshan Normal University vol 38 pp 44ndash47 2016
[32] D D Perrin ldquoStability constants of metal-ion-complexesrdquoIUPAC vol 22 no Chemical Data Series 1979
[33] L huaxiang and W Xuxu ldquoTiO2surface hydroxyl groups and
their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
[34] W Dianzuo and H Yuehua Flotation Solution ChemistryHunan science and Technology Press Changsha Hunan 1988
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2 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
important to make preassessment for TiO2modification
effects At present the surface modification of powder ismainly evaluated by measurement with contact angle [2728] and activation index [29] However the modificationeffects and stability of changed surface wettability cannot beevaluated Moreover the modification mechanism cannot bereflected with the interaction between modifier and TiO
2
particle This work conducted surface modification to TiO2
particle in micrometer scale by wet-modification with mod-ifiers sodium stearate and sodium oleate Suspension wasprepared with TiO
2powder and water in the weight ratio of
1 1 and heated to and fixed at 65∘CThen appropriate dosageof modifier was added to adjust pH value of modifier equalto or smaller than 7 The modified suspension was obtainedafter 30 minutes of heat preservation and constant stirringAfter drying and dispersing the modified suspension mod-ified TiO
2powder can be obtained Then the modification
effects of TiO2were characterized according to the changes
of wetting contact angle and activation index in differentliquid mediums before and after modification Finally themodificationmechanisms of TiO
2were studied by testing the
infrared spectrums and analyzing the morphology of surfacefunctional groups before and after modification with sodiumstearate and sodium oleate
2 Experiments
21 Raw Materials and Reagent TiO2used in tests was
anatase-type titanium oxide powder manufactured by HenanBillions Chemicals Co Ltd In sample test the particle sizewas median diameter (119889
50) of 037 120583m specific surface area
was 6125m2gminus1 whiteness was 9880 covering powerwas 1299 gm2 oil absorption was 2440 g100 g and water-wetting contact angle was 7∘
Theorganicmodifiers in test sodium stearate and sodiumoleate were all chemically pure reagents provided by BeijingJingweiHuabo Co Ltd The reagents should be disposed as5 water solution by heating
22 Process of TiO2 Organic Modification Surface modifica-tion for TiO
2was conducted by water suspension wet surface
modification Suspension was prepared with TiO2powder
and water in weight ratio of 1 1 (solid content 50) andheated to constant temperature (65∘C) Then the modifiersolution was added to TiO
2water suspension by ratio to
adjust the pH value equal to or less than 7 Modified sus-pension was obtained after thermal insulation and constantstirring for 30 minutes TiO
2powder can be obtained after
drying and dispersing the modified suspension
23 Performance and Structural Characterization231 Wetting Contact Angle Contact angle (120579) refers to theincluded angle between gas-liquid surface and solid-liquidsurface (including liquid) in the junction of three phasesgas liquid and solid As the physical quantity quantitativelyreflecting the wetting degree on solid surface contact anglecan represent the change in surface characteristics of TiO
2
before and aftermodificationTherefore contact angle can be
used to determine the modification effects When measuringthe angle the sample to be tested should be pressed asthe solid slice with smooth surface Then contact anglegauge (JC2000D Shanghai powereach digital technologyequipment Co Ltd) should be used to measure and takephoto of wetting contact angle
232 Activation Index Activation index refers to the per-centage of powder floating on the water-gas interfaceaccounting for the total volume after mixing the modifiedpowder in water Particles with surface hydrophobicity mayfloat on the interface in the comprehensive action of adhesiveforce gravity buoyancy water pressure and so forth inmoist periphery of three phases The stronger the surfacehydrophobicity of particle is the greater the adhesive forcein moist periphery and the larger the floating trend willbe Therefore the floating powder can intuitively reflect thesurface modification effects
2 g modified sample was correctly weighed and placedin pear-shaped funnel with 200mL water After oscillationand stewing the sedimentation at bottom in hierarchy wasintroduced to beaker for drying and weighingThe activationindex of sample119867 could be calculated by following formula
119867 =Sedimentation quantity in total quality
Total qualitytimes 100 (1)
233 Infrared Spectroscopy Infrared spectroscopy analysiscan be used to detect various keys in molecule structureof functional group and binding characteristics of differentparts in composite materials After compressing the sampleto be tested and KBr Spectrum 100 infrared spectrometricanalyzer manufactured by Shanghai PerkinElmer Co Ltdwas used for infrared spectrometry and analysis The scan-ning scope of instrument was 4000 cmminus1ndash400 cmminus1 and theresolution ratio was 3 cmminus1
3 Results and Discussion
31 Change of Modified TiO2 Wetting Contact Angle withModifiers and Dosage Figure 1 shows the influences ofmodifier dosage on the contact angle of TiO
2wetted by
water after TiO2particles weremodifiedwith sodium stearate
and sodium oleate Figure 2 shows the microscopic image ofwetting contact angle
According to Figure 1 the contact angle continuouslyenlarged with the increase of modifier dosage after TiO
2is
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleateThe anglesare 1256∘ (modified with sodium stearate) and 1213∘ (mod-ified with sodium oleate) larger than 90∘ critical betweenhydrophile and hydrophobicity when modifier dosage is15 The contact angle of TiO
2is 7∘ before modification
Obviously TiO2surface has turned from strong hydrophilia
to hydrophobicity after modification However the wettingcontact angle on TiO
2surface decreases in small range when
the dosage further increasesThe results show that bothmod-ifiers can change the wettability of TiO
2surface Moreover
the hydrophobicity formed in modification can be controlledwith modifier dosage In other words the wettability on
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 3
00 05 10 15 20 25 30
0
50
100
150
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Figure 1 The wetting contact angle of modified TiO2in water
TiO2particle surface and its degree are controllable Figure 2
intuitively reflects the changes in Figure 1In this work TiO
2wasmodifiedwith sodium stearate and
sodiumoleate (in dosage of 15) respectively Figure 3 showsthe contact angles of modified product and unmodified TiO
2
wetted by water absolute ethyl alcohol and kerosene It canbe seen that the contact angle of modified TiO
2wetted by
absolute ethyl alcohol is about 21∘ while the angle wettedby water is larger than 120∘ (see Figure 1) This means thatthe hydrophilia of TiO
2with alcohol is stronger than that
with water because alcohol has double characters of organicsand water Therefore modified TiO
2with surface strong
hydrophobicity has stronger wetting action than water Thewetting contact angle of modified TiO
2in kerosene (organic
nonpolar solvent) is slightly smaller than that in ethyl alcohol(less than 20∘) In other words the hydrophilia of modifiedTiO2in kerosene is much stronger than that in alcohol
It means that the surface of modified TiO2particle has
stronger organic nonpolarity Moreover the above resultsfurther specify that modifiers form the effective absorptionon the surface of TiO
2particle so the particle turns from
surface hydrophilia to hydrophobicity Figure 3 also showsthat the contact angle of unmodified TiO
2wetted by alcohol
and kerosene is about 20∘ larger than that wetted by waterIn other words the wetness degree of alcohol and keroseneis lower than water This means that unmodified TiO
2has
strong surface hydrophilicityBefore and after modification wetting contact angle of
TiO2particles changed in differentmediumsThismeans that
TiO2particle has extremely strong hydrophilia which may
turn to strong hydrophobicity after organicmodificationThewettability of modified TiO
2particle in organic medium is
stronger than that in inorganic medium which is beneficialto the improvement of dispersity in organic medium
32 Changes in Activation Index of Modified TiO2 Activationindex is an important index evaluating modification The
stronger the hydrophobicity TiO2particles are the larger
the activation index will be Figure 4 shows the changes inactivation index of TiO
2powdermodified by sodium stearate
and sodium oleate According to the figure the activationindex of modified TiO
2greatly increases with the dosages
of sodium stearate and sodium oleate increasing from 0to 15 and from 0 to 1 respectively Moreover theactivation index reached the maximum 986 and 897when the dosages of sodium stearate and sodium oleatewere 15 and 1 respectively However with the furtherincrease of sodium stearate and sodium oleate the activationindex of TiO
2may slightly decrease or keep stable This is
because the surface modification of TiO2is incomplete if the
modifier dosage is little so the activation index is small Withthe increase of modifier dosage however the unimolecularcoverage is realized with modifier on the surface of TiO
2
to make the modifier dosage saturated At this time theactivation index is the maximum If the modifier dosagefurther increases multilayer coats will form on the surfaceof TiO
2particles to make some types of group outward and
reduce the hydrophobicity of TiO2 Therefore the activation
index will decrease The change of activation index showsthat after modifying the sodium stearate and sodium oleateof TiO
2 the hydrophilia on surface will turn to strong
hydrophobic effectsThis is obviously the interaction betweenTiO2particle andmodifiermolecule as well as the coating on
the surface of TiO2[30 31]
This means that TiO2surface turns from hydrophilia
to strong hydrophobicity after being modified with sodiumstearate and sodiumoleateThis is obviously the result of TiO
2
particle and modifier molecule covering TiO2surface Above
results are consistent with the analysis on contact angle test
33 Function Mechanism of Modifiers and TiO2 Particle
331 IR Analysis on TiO2 Modified with Sodium Stearate andSodium Oleate The mechanism of TiO
2surface showing
strong hydrophobicity can be further understood and hydro-phobicity stability be determined by studying the proper-ties of interaction between modifiers sodium stearate andsodium oleate and TiO
2surfaceTherefore the infrared spec-
troscopies were measured for sodium stearate and sodiumoleate as well as TiO
2modified by these two modifiers
Figures 5 and 6 show the measurement resultsFigure 5 shows that there are symmetrical and dis-
symmetrical characteristic absorption peaks of -CH2- at
2917 cmminus1 and 2849 cmminus1 in the infrared spectroscopy ofsodium stearate (see Figure 5(a)) Moreover there is charac-teristic absorption peak of -CH
3at 2956 cmminus1 and stretching
absorption peaks of carbonyl (C=O) and carboxyl (COO-) at1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 All of these reflect the structuralcharacteristics of sodium stearate Compared with raw mate-rial of sodium stearate and TiO
2 there are absorption peaks
at 2996 cmminus1 and 2885 cmminus1 in the infrared spectroscopy ofmodified TiO
2 This is obviously the characteristics of -CH
2-
and -CH3 showing that sodium stearate has attached to TiO
2
surfaceAccording to the comparison the absorption peak of
modified TiO2at 1504 cmminus1 resulted from the displacement
4 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 2 Microscopic image of wet contact angle of TiO2 (a)Wet contact angle of TiO
2 (b) wet contact angle of modified TiO
2with sodium
stearate and (c) wet contact angle of modified TiO2with sodium oleate
Water Ethanol Kerosene0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Medium
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Ti2
Ti2 modied by sodium stearate Ti2 modied by sodium oleate
Figure 3 Change of wet contact angle of TiO2
00 05 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 4550
60
70
80
90
100
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Activ
atio
n in
dex
()
Figure 4 Activation index of modified TiO2with the amount of
modifier
of absorption peaks at 1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 in theinfrared spectrum of sodium stearate It means that thechemical environment of C=O and -COOminus had significantchange after sodium stearate reacted with TiO
2 This may
result from the chemical action between functional group ofsodium stearate and surface functional group of TiO
2(the
hydroxide radical produced in Ti or Ti hydrolysis)Thereforeit is believed that the attachment of sodium stearate to TiO
2
particle surface has chemical properties Sodium stearateis closely and firmly combined with TiO
2particle so the
changes in surface characteristics of TiO2formodification are
stableAs shown in Figure 6 the infrared spectral features of
TiO2modified with sodium oleate are similar to those of
TiO2modified with sodium stearate In the infrared spec-
troscopy ofmodifiedTiO2 there are characteristic absorption
peaks representing methylene and methyl at 2852 cmminus1 and2922 cmminus1 This means that sodium oleate has attached toTiO2surface The absorption peak at 1465 cmminus1 indicates
that chemical action occurred between -COOminus and TiO2
in sodium oleate Therefore sodium oleate is also closelycombined with TiO
2particle for stable modification of TiO
2
332 Functional Group Morphology of TiO2 Particle Surfacein Water Medium TiO
2is one of the most typical oxides
of surface hydroxylation while the surface hydroxylation ofTiO2as the semiconductor material is complex with various
hydroxyl groups Perrinmade quantitative analysis on hydra-tion reaction of titanium ion (Ti4+) in water medium Thehydration reactions of Ti4+ in different levels and constantsare as follows [32]
Ti4+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)3+ +H+ p119896
1= 1415 (2)
Ti (OH)3+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)22+ +H+ p119896
2= 1373 (3)
Ti(OH)22+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)3
+ +H+ p1198963= 1339 (4)
Ti(OH)3+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)4 +H
+ p1198964= 1306 (5)
p1198961= log[Ti (OH)3+] [H+][Ti4+]
(6)
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 5
(a)
(b)
(c)
295645291743
284997206118 155795
162936
147050
144221
142101
11878771908
345844
107579 61339
7944046433
344800292663
285714 206239
162797155804
109379
79554
61028
5174846357
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400(cGminus1)
Figure 5 IR of TiO2modified by sodium stearate (a) Sodium stearate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400
206118
162936
345844
107579
79440
61339
46433
343790
292771285714 206184
162797155804
105300
79581
61101
4632351748
1094
59
965
1192
366
823
7572
194 69
884 537
24
1345
91
1318
01
1378
181
1278
58
1233
75
1560
90
1462
65
1446
29
1425
05
(cGminus1)
2851
2830
095
5
2921
60
Figure 6 IR of TiO2modified by sodium oleate (a) Sodium oleate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
6 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
p1198962= log[Ti(OH)2
2+] [H+]
[Ti (OH)3+](7)
p1198963= log[Ti(OH)3
+] [H+][Ti (OH)2
2+](8)
p1198964= log[Ti (OH)4] [H
+][Ti(OH)3
+](9)
Therefore the relationship between components Ti4+Ti(OH)3+ Ti(OH)
2
2+ Ti(OH)3
+ and Ti(OH)4 and pH value
(minus log[H+]) is shown in Figure 7 [32]Figure 7 shows that with the increase of pH value in
system Ti4+ tends to generate polyhydroxy When pH lt 1Ti(OH)
2
2+ is taken as the principal when pH=2 Ti(OH)3
+ istaken as the principal when pHgt 4 Ti4+ will turn to Ti(OH)
4
component The result also shows that even when pH = 0sim1the concentration of OHminus in system is extremely small If theexternal action of hydrolysis is weak no Ti4+ and Ti(OH)3+
component is representedmeaning that the capability of Ti4+is strong in generating various hydroxylates It is obviousbecause the constants (pk
1simpk4) of Ti4+ hydrolysis reaction
in different levels keep in very high value (1306sim1415)The hydroxylation characteristic of unsaturated Ti on
TiO2surface can be deducted according to the hydrolysis
behavior of Ti4+ In other words Ti is covered by a largeamount of hydroxyl so surface functional groups of TiO
2are
mainly OH-group as shown in Figure 8 [33] This is similarwith the molecule model of TiO
2with surface attached with
water proposed by Huaxiang and Xuxu [33]
333 DissociationMorphology of SodiumStearate and SodiumOleate in Water Solution The molecular formula of sodiumstearate is CH
3(CH2)16COONa while that of sodium oleate
is CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH
2)7COONa (R-COONa for short)
Both of them are composed of long chain of polar hydrophiliccarboxyl and nonpolar hydrophobic alkane They can dis-solve in water solution and then the dissolved componentsare rehydrated The reaction formula is as follows
R-COONa 997888rarr R-COOminus + Na+ (10)
R-COOminus +H2O 997888rarr R-COOH +OHminus (11)
Dianzuo and Yuehua [34] studied the relationshipbetween the concentration of R-COO and R-COOH insodium oleate solution and pH value (see Figure 9) [34] Thefigure shows that the main morphology of R-COONa is R-COOH in the modification condition of TiO
2 and only few
R-COONa have coexistence of R-COOHandR-COOminus in thiswork Therefore it is believed that the action groups of TiO
2
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleate are mainlyR-COOH followed by R-COOminus
334 Model of Action between Modifier and TiO2 SurfaceThemodification mechanism of sodium stearate and sodiumoleate can be obtained according to above analysis on surfacefunctional groups of TiO
2particle and the dissociation
0 1 2 3 4 50
20
40
60
80
100
pH
Dist
ribut
ion
rate
Ti(OH)44C(()2
2+
4C(()3+
Figure 7 Distribution of Ti4+ hydrolysis component with pH value
O
O
H
OH
Ti
Ti
O OHTi
O HTi
TiO OH
Figure 8 Schematic diagram of TiO2surface adsorbed hydroxyl
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14pH
middotmiddotmiddot
FIAC
RCOO(()
RCOO((K)
RCOminus
RCOOH-RCOminus
(2minus)22minus
Figure 9 Distribution of sodium oleic acid in aqueous solution
morphology ofmodifiers Firstly R-COOH forms a hydrogenbond with OHminus on TiO
2particle surface for combination by
dihydroxylation reaction The combination can be realizedby forming hydrogen bond with C=O and OHminus on TiO
2
surface throughR-COOminusTherefore themodifier R-COONafirmly attaches to TiO
2particle surface to make organic
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 7
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
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nano particlesstyrene butadiene latex composite technologyrdquoEncyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers vol 15 no 4 pp 437ndash4412002
[29] L Qinfu and X Xu ldquoEvaluation and Mechanism Study on theeffect of surface modification of kaolin in coal seriesrdquo Journal ofMaterials Science vol 14 no 3 pp 325ndash328 2009
[30] N Li G-z Ma and B-s Xu ldquoStudy on modification and prop-erties of calcined kaolin with stearic acidrdquo Applied ChemicalIndustry vol 38 no 8 pp 1136ndash1138 2009
[31] L Lihua ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of zinc boraterdquo Journalof Tangshan Normal University vol 38 pp 44ndash47 2016
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their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
[34] W Dianzuo and H Yuehua Flotation Solution ChemistryHunan science and Technology Press Changsha Hunan 1988
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 3
00 05 10 15 20 25 30
0
50
100
150
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Figure 1 The wetting contact angle of modified TiO2in water
TiO2particle surface and its degree are controllable Figure 2
intuitively reflects the changes in Figure 1In this work TiO
2wasmodifiedwith sodium stearate and
sodiumoleate (in dosage of 15) respectively Figure 3 showsthe contact angles of modified product and unmodified TiO
2
wetted by water absolute ethyl alcohol and kerosene It canbe seen that the contact angle of modified TiO
2wetted by
absolute ethyl alcohol is about 21∘ while the angle wettedby water is larger than 120∘ (see Figure 1) This means thatthe hydrophilia of TiO
2with alcohol is stronger than that
with water because alcohol has double characters of organicsand water Therefore modified TiO
2with surface strong
hydrophobicity has stronger wetting action than water Thewetting contact angle of modified TiO
2in kerosene (organic
nonpolar solvent) is slightly smaller than that in ethyl alcohol(less than 20∘) In other words the hydrophilia of modifiedTiO2in kerosene is much stronger than that in alcohol
It means that the surface of modified TiO2particle has
stronger organic nonpolarity Moreover the above resultsfurther specify that modifiers form the effective absorptionon the surface of TiO
2particle so the particle turns from
surface hydrophilia to hydrophobicity Figure 3 also showsthat the contact angle of unmodified TiO
2wetted by alcohol
and kerosene is about 20∘ larger than that wetted by waterIn other words the wetness degree of alcohol and keroseneis lower than water This means that unmodified TiO
2has
strong surface hydrophilicityBefore and after modification wetting contact angle of
TiO2particles changed in differentmediumsThismeans that
TiO2particle has extremely strong hydrophilia which may
turn to strong hydrophobicity after organicmodificationThewettability of modified TiO
2particle in organic medium is
stronger than that in inorganic medium which is beneficialto the improvement of dispersity in organic medium
32 Changes in Activation Index of Modified TiO2 Activationindex is an important index evaluating modification The
stronger the hydrophobicity TiO2particles are the larger
the activation index will be Figure 4 shows the changes inactivation index of TiO
2powdermodified by sodium stearate
and sodium oleate According to the figure the activationindex of modified TiO
2greatly increases with the dosages
of sodium stearate and sodium oleate increasing from 0to 15 and from 0 to 1 respectively Moreover theactivation index reached the maximum 986 and 897when the dosages of sodium stearate and sodium oleatewere 15 and 1 respectively However with the furtherincrease of sodium stearate and sodium oleate the activationindex of TiO
2may slightly decrease or keep stable This is
because the surface modification of TiO2is incomplete if the
modifier dosage is little so the activation index is small Withthe increase of modifier dosage however the unimolecularcoverage is realized with modifier on the surface of TiO
2
to make the modifier dosage saturated At this time theactivation index is the maximum If the modifier dosagefurther increases multilayer coats will form on the surfaceof TiO
2particles to make some types of group outward and
reduce the hydrophobicity of TiO2 Therefore the activation
index will decrease The change of activation index showsthat after modifying the sodium stearate and sodium oleateof TiO
2 the hydrophilia on surface will turn to strong
hydrophobic effectsThis is obviously the interaction betweenTiO2particle andmodifiermolecule as well as the coating on
the surface of TiO2[30 31]
This means that TiO2surface turns from hydrophilia
to strong hydrophobicity after being modified with sodiumstearate and sodiumoleateThis is obviously the result of TiO
2
particle and modifier molecule covering TiO2surface Above
results are consistent with the analysis on contact angle test
33 Function Mechanism of Modifiers and TiO2 Particle
331 IR Analysis on TiO2 Modified with Sodium Stearate andSodium Oleate The mechanism of TiO
2surface showing
strong hydrophobicity can be further understood and hydro-phobicity stability be determined by studying the proper-ties of interaction between modifiers sodium stearate andsodium oleate and TiO
2surfaceTherefore the infrared spec-
troscopies were measured for sodium stearate and sodiumoleate as well as TiO
2modified by these two modifiers
Figures 5 and 6 show the measurement resultsFigure 5 shows that there are symmetrical and dis-
symmetrical characteristic absorption peaks of -CH2- at
2917 cmminus1 and 2849 cmminus1 in the infrared spectroscopy ofsodium stearate (see Figure 5(a)) Moreover there is charac-teristic absorption peak of -CH
3at 2956 cmminus1 and stretching
absorption peaks of carbonyl (C=O) and carboxyl (COO-) at1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 All of these reflect the structuralcharacteristics of sodium stearate Compared with raw mate-rial of sodium stearate and TiO
2 there are absorption peaks
at 2996 cmminus1 and 2885 cmminus1 in the infrared spectroscopy ofmodified TiO
2 This is obviously the characteristics of -CH
2-
and -CH3 showing that sodium stearate has attached to TiO
2
surfaceAccording to the comparison the absorption peak of
modified TiO2at 1504 cmminus1 resulted from the displacement
4 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 2 Microscopic image of wet contact angle of TiO2 (a)Wet contact angle of TiO
2 (b) wet contact angle of modified TiO
2with sodium
stearate and (c) wet contact angle of modified TiO2with sodium oleate
Water Ethanol Kerosene0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Medium
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Ti2
Ti2 modied by sodium stearate Ti2 modied by sodium oleate
Figure 3 Change of wet contact angle of TiO2
00 05 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 4550
60
70
80
90
100
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Activ
atio
n in
dex
()
Figure 4 Activation index of modified TiO2with the amount of
modifier
of absorption peaks at 1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 in theinfrared spectrum of sodium stearate It means that thechemical environment of C=O and -COOminus had significantchange after sodium stearate reacted with TiO
2 This may
result from the chemical action between functional group ofsodium stearate and surface functional group of TiO
2(the
hydroxide radical produced in Ti or Ti hydrolysis)Thereforeit is believed that the attachment of sodium stearate to TiO
2
particle surface has chemical properties Sodium stearateis closely and firmly combined with TiO
2particle so the
changes in surface characteristics of TiO2formodification are
stableAs shown in Figure 6 the infrared spectral features of
TiO2modified with sodium oleate are similar to those of
TiO2modified with sodium stearate In the infrared spec-
troscopy ofmodifiedTiO2 there are characteristic absorption
peaks representing methylene and methyl at 2852 cmminus1 and2922 cmminus1 This means that sodium oleate has attached toTiO2surface The absorption peak at 1465 cmminus1 indicates
that chemical action occurred between -COOminus and TiO2
in sodium oleate Therefore sodium oleate is also closelycombined with TiO
2particle for stable modification of TiO
2
332 Functional Group Morphology of TiO2 Particle Surfacein Water Medium TiO
2is one of the most typical oxides
of surface hydroxylation while the surface hydroxylation ofTiO2as the semiconductor material is complex with various
hydroxyl groups Perrinmade quantitative analysis on hydra-tion reaction of titanium ion (Ti4+) in water medium Thehydration reactions of Ti4+ in different levels and constantsare as follows [32]
Ti4+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)3+ +H+ p119896
1= 1415 (2)
Ti (OH)3+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)22+ +H+ p119896
2= 1373 (3)
Ti(OH)22+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)3
+ +H+ p1198963= 1339 (4)
Ti(OH)3+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)4 +H
+ p1198964= 1306 (5)
p1198961= log[Ti (OH)3+] [H+][Ti4+]
(6)
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 5
(a)
(b)
(c)
295645291743
284997206118 155795
162936
147050
144221
142101
11878771908
345844
107579 61339
7944046433
344800292663
285714 206239
162797155804
109379
79554
61028
5174846357
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400(cGminus1)
Figure 5 IR of TiO2modified by sodium stearate (a) Sodium stearate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400
206118
162936
345844
107579
79440
61339
46433
343790
292771285714 206184
162797155804
105300
79581
61101
4632351748
1094
59
965
1192
366
823
7572
194 69
884 537
24
1345
91
1318
01
1378
181
1278
58
1233
75
1560
90
1462
65
1446
29
1425
05
(cGminus1)
2851
2830
095
5
2921
60
Figure 6 IR of TiO2modified by sodium oleate (a) Sodium oleate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
6 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
p1198962= log[Ti(OH)2
2+] [H+]
[Ti (OH)3+](7)
p1198963= log[Ti(OH)3
+] [H+][Ti (OH)2
2+](8)
p1198964= log[Ti (OH)4] [H
+][Ti(OH)3
+](9)
Therefore the relationship between components Ti4+Ti(OH)3+ Ti(OH)
2
2+ Ti(OH)3
+ and Ti(OH)4 and pH value
(minus log[H+]) is shown in Figure 7 [32]Figure 7 shows that with the increase of pH value in
system Ti4+ tends to generate polyhydroxy When pH lt 1Ti(OH)
2
2+ is taken as the principal when pH=2 Ti(OH)3
+ istaken as the principal when pHgt 4 Ti4+ will turn to Ti(OH)
4
component The result also shows that even when pH = 0sim1the concentration of OHminus in system is extremely small If theexternal action of hydrolysis is weak no Ti4+ and Ti(OH)3+
component is representedmeaning that the capability of Ti4+is strong in generating various hydroxylates It is obviousbecause the constants (pk
1simpk4) of Ti4+ hydrolysis reaction
in different levels keep in very high value (1306sim1415)The hydroxylation characteristic of unsaturated Ti on
TiO2surface can be deducted according to the hydrolysis
behavior of Ti4+ In other words Ti is covered by a largeamount of hydroxyl so surface functional groups of TiO
2are
mainly OH-group as shown in Figure 8 [33] This is similarwith the molecule model of TiO
2with surface attached with
water proposed by Huaxiang and Xuxu [33]
333 DissociationMorphology of SodiumStearate and SodiumOleate in Water Solution The molecular formula of sodiumstearate is CH
3(CH2)16COONa while that of sodium oleate
is CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH
2)7COONa (R-COONa for short)
Both of them are composed of long chain of polar hydrophiliccarboxyl and nonpolar hydrophobic alkane They can dis-solve in water solution and then the dissolved componentsare rehydrated The reaction formula is as follows
R-COONa 997888rarr R-COOminus + Na+ (10)
R-COOminus +H2O 997888rarr R-COOH +OHminus (11)
Dianzuo and Yuehua [34] studied the relationshipbetween the concentration of R-COO and R-COOH insodium oleate solution and pH value (see Figure 9) [34] Thefigure shows that the main morphology of R-COONa is R-COOH in the modification condition of TiO
2 and only few
R-COONa have coexistence of R-COOHandR-COOminus in thiswork Therefore it is believed that the action groups of TiO
2
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleate are mainlyR-COOH followed by R-COOminus
334 Model of Action between Modifier and TiO2 SurfaceThemodification mechanism of sodium stearate and sodiumoleate can be obtained according to above analysis on surfacefunctional groups of TiO
2particle and the dissociation
0 1 2 3 4 50
20
40
60
80
100
pH
Dist
ribut
ion
rate
Ti(OH)44C(()2
2+
4C(()3+
Figure 7 Distribution of Ti4+ hydrolysis component with pH value
O
O
H
OH
Ti
Ti
O OHTi
O HTi
TiO OH
Figure 8 Schematic diagram of TiO2surface adsorbed hydroxyl
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14pH
middotmiddotmiddot
FIAC
RCOO(()
RCOO((K)
RCOminus
RCOOH-RCOminus
(2minus)22minus
Figure 9 Distribution of sodium oleic acid in aqueous solution
morphology ofmodifiers Firstly R-COOH forms a hydrogenbond with OHminus on TiO
2particle surface for combination by
dihydroxylation reaction The combination can be realizedby forming hydrogen bond with C=O and OHminus on TiO
2
surface throughR-COOminusTherefore themodifier R-COONafirmly attaches to TiO
2particle surface to make organic
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 7
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
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their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
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NanoparticlesJournal of
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Biomaterials
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CoatingsJournal of
Advances in
Materials Science and EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Smart Materials Research
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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MaterialsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
4 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 2 Microscopic image of wet contact angle of TiO2 (a)Wet contact angle of TiO
2 (b) wet contact angle of modified TiO
2with sodium
stearate and (c) wet contact angle of modified TiO2with sodium oleate
Water Ethanol Kerosene0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Medium
Wet
cont
act a
ngle
(∘)
Ti2
Ti2 modied by sodium stearate Ti2 modied by sodium oleate
Figure 3 Change of wet contact angle of TiO2
00 05 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 4550
60
70
80
90
100
Sodium stearateSodium oleate
Dosage of modier ()
Activ
atio
n in
dex
()
Figure 4 Activation index of modified TiO2with the amount of
modifier
of absorption peaks at 1557 cmminus1 and 1470 cmminus1 in theinfrared spectrum of sodium stearate It means that thechemical environment of C=O and -COOminus had significantchange after sodium stearate reacted with TiO
2 This may
result from the chemical action between functional group ofsodium stearate and surface functional group of TiO
2(the
hydroxide radical produced in Ti or Ti hydrolysis)Thereforeit is believed that the attachment of sodium stearate to TiO
2
particle surface has chemical properties Sodium stearateis closely and firmly combined with TiO
2particle so the
changes in surface characteristics of TiO2formodification are
stableAs shown in Figure 6 the infrared spectral features of
TiO2modified with sodium oleate are similar to those of
TiO2modified with sodium stearate In the infrared spec-
troscopy ofmodifiedTiO2 there are characteristic absorption
peaks representing methylene and methyl at 2852 cmminus1 and2922 cmminus1 This means that sodium oleate has attached toTiO2surface The absorption peak at 1465 cmminus1 indicates
that chemical action occurred between -COOminus and TiO2
in sodium oleate Therefore sodium oleate is also closelycombined with TiO
2particle for stable modification of TiO
2
332 Functional Group Morphology of TiO2 Particle Surfacein Water Medium TiO
2is one of the most typical oxides
of surface hydroxylation while the surface hydroxylation ofTiO2as the semiconductor material is complex with various
hydroxyl groups Perrinmade quantitative analysis on hydra-tion reaction of titanium ion (Ti4+) in water medium Thehydration reactions of Ti4+ in different levels and constantsare as follows [32]
Ti4+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)3+ +H+ p119896
1= 1415 (2)
Ti (OH)3+ +H2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)22+ +H+ p119896
2= 1373 (3)
Ti(OH)22+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti(OH)3
+ +H+ p1198963= 1339 (4)
Ti(OH)3+ +H
2O 999445999468 Ti (OH)4 +H
+ p1198964= 1306 (5)
p1198961= log[Ti (OH)3+] [H+][Ti4+]
(6)
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 5
(a)
(b)
(c)
295645291743
284997206118 155795
162936
147050
144221
142101
11878771908
345844
107579 61339
7944046433
344800292663
285714 206239
162797155804
109379
79554
61028
5174846357
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400(cGminus1)
Figure 5 IR of TiO2modified by sodium stearate (a) Sodium stearate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400
206118
162936
345844
107579
79440
61339
46433
343790
292771285714 206184
162797155804
105300
79581
61101
4632351748
1094
59
965
1192
366
823
7572
194 69
884 537
24
1345
91
1318
01
1378
181
1278
58
1233
75
1560
90
1462
65
1446
29
1425
05
(cGminus1)
2851
2830
095
5
2921
60
Figure 6 IR of TiO2modified by sodium oleate (a) Sodium oleate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
6 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
p1198962= log[Ti(OH)2
2+] [H+]
[Ti (OH)3+](7)
p1198963= log[Ti(OH)3
+] [H+][Ti (OH)2
2+](8)
p1198964= log[Ti (OH)4] [H
+][Ti(OH)3
+](9)
Therefore the relationship between components Ti4+Ti(OH)3+ Ti(OH)
2
2+ Ti(OH)3
+ and Ti(OH)4 and pH value
(minus log[H+]) is shown in Figure 7 [32]Figure 7 shows that with the increase of pH value in
system Ti4+ tends to generate polyhydroxy When pH lt 1Ti(OH)
2
2+ is taken as the principal when pH=2 Ti(OH)3
+ istaken as the principal when pHgt 4 Ti4+ will turn to Ti(OH)
4
component The result also shows that even when pH = 0sim1the concentration of OHminus in system is extremely small If theexternal action of hydrolysis is weak no Ti4+ and Ti(OH)3+
component is representedmeaning that the capability of Ti4+is strong in generating various hydroxylates It is obviousbecause the constants (pk
1simpk4) of Ti4+ hydrolysis reaction
in different levels keep in very high value (1306sim1415)The hydroxylation characteristic of unsaturated Ti on
TiO2surface can be deducted according to the hydrolysis
behavior of Ti4+ In other words Ti is covered by a largeamount of hydroxyl so surface functional groups of TiO
2are
mainly OH-group as shown in Figure 8 [33] This is similarwith the molecule model of TiO
2with surface attached with
water proposed by Huaxiang and Xuxu [33]
333 DissociationMorphology of SodiumStearate and SodiumOleate in Water Solution The molecular formula of sodiumstearate is CH
3(CH2)16COONa while that of sodium oleate
is CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH
2)7COONa (R-COONa for short)
Both of them are composed of long chain of polar hydrophiliccarboxyl and nonpolar hydrophobic alkane They can dis-solve in water solution and then the dissolved componentsare rehydrated The reaction formula is as follows
R-COONa 997888rarr R-COOminus + Na+ (10)
R-COOminus +H2O 997888rarr R-COOH +OHminus (11)
Dianzuo and Yuehua [34] studied the relationshipbetween the concentration of R-COO and R-COOH insodium oleate solution and pH value (see Figure 9) [34] Thefigure shows that the main morphology of R-COONa is R-COOH in the modification condition of TiO
2 and only few
R-COONa have coexistence of R-COOHandR-COOminus in thiswork Therefore it is believed that the action groups of TiO
2
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleate are mainlyR-COOH followed by R-COOminus
334 Model of Action between Modifier and TiO2 SurfaceThemodification mechanism of sodium stearate and sodiumoleate can be obtained according to above analysis on surfacefunctional groups of TiO
2particle and the dissociation
0 1 2 3 4 50
20
40
60
80
100
pH
Dist
ribut
ion
rate
Ti(OH)44C(()2
2+
4C(()3+
Figure 7 Distribution of Ti4+ hydrolysis component with pH value
O
O
H
OH
Ti
Ti
O OHTi
O HTi
TiO OH
Figure 8 Schematic diagram of TiO2surface adsorbed hydroxyl
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14pH
middotmiddotmiddot
FIAC
RCOO(()
RCOO((K)
RCOminus
RCOOH-RCOminus
(2minus)22minus
Figure 9 Distribution of sodium oleic acid in aqueous solution
morphology ofmodifiers Firstly R-COOH forms a hydrogenbond with OHminus on TiO
2particle surface for combination by
dihydroxylation reaction The combination can be realizedby forming hydrogen bond with C=O and OHminus on TiO
2
surface throughR-COOminusTherefore themodifier R-COONafirmly attaches to TiO
2particle surface to make organic
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 7
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
References
[1] E Reck and M Richards ldquoTiO2manufacture and life cycle
analysisrdquo Pigment and Resin Technology vol 28 no s3 pp 149ndash157 1999
[2] S-R Lu H-L Zhang C-X Zhao et al ldquoStudies on the prop-erties of a new hybridmaterials containing chain-extended ureaand SiO
2-TiO2particlesrdquo Polymer vol 46 no 23 pp 10484ndash
10492 2005[3] A Chatterjee ldquoEffect of nanoTiO
2addition on poly(methyl
methacrylate) an exciting nanocompositerdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 116 no 6 pp 3396ndash3407 2010
[4] F Loffredo I A Grimaldi A De Girolamo Del Mauro et alldquoPolyethylenimineN-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticlebased inks for ink-jet printing applicationsrdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 122 no 6 pp 3630ndash3636 2011
[5] C Xiaoquan and SWenhao ldquoResearch progress on the prepara-tion and application of nano titanium dioxide in papermakingrdquoPaper Science and technology vol 6 pp 109ndash114 2010
[6] A Sotto A Boromand R Zhang et al ldquoEffect of nanoparticleaggregation at low concentrations of TiO
2on the hydrophilicity
morphology and fouling resistance of PES-TiO2membranesrdquo
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 363 no 2 pp 540ndash550 2011
[7] J C Yu J Yu W Ho et al ldquoLight-induced super-hydrophilicityand photocatalytic activity of mesoporous TiO
2thin filmsrdquo
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry vol148 no 1 pp 331ndash339 2002
[8] Y Gao G Chen Y Oli et al ldquoStudy on tribological properties ofoleic acid-modified TiO
2nanoparticle in waterrdquoWear vol 252
no 5 pp 454ndash458 2002[9] NMaximous GNakhlaWWan et al ldquoPerformance of a novel
ZrO2PESmembrane forwastewater filtrationrdquo Journal ofMem-
brane Science vol 352 no 1 pp 222ndash230 2010[10] N Maximous G Nakhla W Wan et al ldquoPreparation charac-
terization and performance of Al2O3PESmembrane for waste-
water filtrationrdquo Journal of Membrane Science vol 341 no 1 pp67ndash75 2009
[11] Z Wanzhong Q Xueliang Q Lin et al ldquoPhotocatalytic mech-anism of nano titanium dioxide and its application in thetreatment of organic wastewaterrdquo Journal of Synthetic Crystalsvol 35 pp 1026ndash1031 2006
8 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
[12] C Hanlin Study on Photoelectrochemical degradation of organicpollutants and hydrogen production bymodified titania nanotubearray electrode South China University of Technology 2015
[13] L Daohui Ji Jing L Tian et al ldquoEnvironmental behavior andbiological toxicity of nanomaterialsrdquo Science Bulletin vol 23 pp3590ndash3604 2009
[14] Li Shugan and J Xiaoning ldquoTreatment method of medicalpolypropylene nonwoven fabricrdquo Industrial Textiles vol 29 pp30ndash33 2011
[15] H Park Y Park W Kim et al ldquoSurface modification ofTiO2photocatalyst for environmental applicationsrdquo Journal of
Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviewsvol 15 no 1 pp 1ndash20 2013
[16] C Yao G-S Gao X-P Lin X-J Yang L-D Lu and X WangldquoSurface modification of nanosized TiO
2with silane coupling
reagentrdquo Journal of Inorganic Materials vol 21 no 2 pp 315ndash321 2006
[17] X Gang Z Huashan Z Haodong et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of nano titanium dioxiderdquo Journal of KunmingUniversity of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering)vol 29 no 4 pp 39ndash42 2004
[18] H Xihai L Huimin L Fei et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodificationof nano titanium dioxiderdquo inorganic salt industry vol 44 no 1pp 30ndash32 2012
[19] F Hui Study on Surface Treatment and Application Performanceof Rutile Titanium Dioxide Jiangsu University 2007
[20] H Ding S-C Lu Y-X Deng and G-X Du ldquoMechano-activated surface modification of calcium carbonate in wetstirred mill and its propertiesrdquo Transactions of NonferrousMetals Society of China (English Edition) vol 17 no 5 pp 1100ndash1104 2007
[21] H Ding H Yushu and L shouci Ore sodium stearatemodifiedheavy calcium carbonate of non metallic mines wet ultrafinegrinding 1997 (4) 37-40
[22] H Ding H Zhou Y X Zheng and M M Wang ldquoEffect ofsodium stearate on grinding behaviour of calcium carbonate inwet stirred millrdquo Materials Research Innovations vol 17 no 1pp s292ndashs296 2013
[23] Y-X Weng L Li Y Liu L Wang and G-Z Yang ldquoSurface-binding forms of carboxylic groups on nanoparticulate TiO
2
surface studied by the interface-sensitive transient triplet-statemolecular proberdquo Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol 107 no18 pp 4356ndash4363 2003
[24] S Mallakpour and E Nikkhoo ldquoSurface modification of nano-TiO2with trimellitylimido-amino acid-based diacids for pre-
venting aggregation of nanoparticlesrdquo Advanced Powder Tech-nology vol 25 no 1 pp 348ndash353 2014
[25] D Q Vo E-J Kim and S Kim ldquoSurfacemodification of hydro-phobic nanocrystals using short-chain carboxylic acidsrdquo Jour-nal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 337 no 1 pp 75ndash802009
[26] Y Wang W Eli L Zhang H Gao Y Liu and P Li ldquoA newmethod for surface modification of nano-CaCO
3and nano-
Al2O3at room temperaturerdquo Advanced Powder Technology vol
21 no 2 pp 203ndash205 2010[27] T Zhisong L Runjing G Fen et al ldquoThe effect of coupling
agent on the surface modification of nano CaCO3rdquo Journal of
Beijing University of Chemical Technology 2004[28] W Shuzhong M Yixuan H Fuzeng et al ldquoStudy on inorganic
nano particlesstyrene butadiene latex composite technologyrdquoEncyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers vol 15 no 4 pp 437ndash4412002
[29] L Qinfu and X Xu ldquoEvaluation and Mechanism Study on theeffect of surface modification of kaolin in coal seriesrdquo Journal ofMaterials Science vol 14 no 3 pp 325ndash328 2009
[30] N Li G-z Ma and B-s Xu ldquoStudy on modification and prop-erties of calcined kaolin with stearic acidrdquo Applied ChemicalIndustry vol 38 no 8 pp 1136ndash1138 2009
[31] L Lihua ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of zinc boraterdquo Journalof Tangshan Normal University vol 38 pp 44ndash47 2016
[32] D D Perrin ldquoStability constants of metal-ion-complexesrdquoIUPAC vol 22 no Chemical Data Series 1979
[33] L huaxiang and W Xuxu ldquoTiO2surface hydroxyl groups and
their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
[34] W Dianzuo and H Yuehua Flotation Solution ChemistryHunan science and Technology Press Changsha Hunan 1988
Submit your manuscripts athttpswwwhindawicom
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 5
(a)
(b)
(c)
295645291743
284997206118 155795
162936
147050
144221
142101
11878771908
345844
107579 61339
7944046433
344800292663
285714 206239
162797155804
109379
79554
61028
5174846357
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400(cGminus1)
Figure 5 IR of TiO2modified by sodium stearate (a) Sodium stearate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
4000 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400
206118
162936
345844
107579
79440
61339
46433
343790
292771285714 206184
162797155804
105300
79581
61101
4632351748
1094
59
965
1192
366
823
7572
194 69
884 537
24
1345
91
1318
01
1378
181
1278
58
1233
75
1560
90
1462
65
1446
29
1425
05
(cGminus1)
2851
2830
095
5
2921
60
Figure 6 IR of TiO2modified by sodium oleate (a) Sodium oleate (b) TiO
2 (c) modified TiO
2
6 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
p1198962= log[Ti(OH)2
2+] [H+]
[Ti (OH)3+](7)
p1198963= log[Ti(OH)3
+] [H+][Ti (OH)2
2+](8)
p1198964= log[Ti (OH)4] [H
+][Ti(OH)3
+](9)
Therefore the relationship between components Ti4+Ti(OH)3+ Ti(OH)
2
2+ Ti(OH)3
+ and Ti(OH)4 and pH value
(minus log[H+]) is shown in Figure 7 [32]Figure 7 shows that with the increase of pH value in
system Ti4+ tends to generate polyhydroxy When pH lt 1Ti(OH)
2
2+ is taken as the principal when pH=2 Ti(OH)3
+ istaken as the principal when pHgt 4 Ti4+ will turn to Ti(OH)
4
component The result also shows that even when pH = 0sim1the concentration of OHminus in system is extremely small If theexternal action of hydrolysis is weak no Ti4+ and Ti(OH)3+
component is representedmeaning that the capability of Ti4+is strong in generating various hydroxylates It is obviousbecause the constants (pk
1simpk4) of Ti4+ hydrolysis reaction
in different levels keep in very high value (1306sim1415)The hydroxylation characteristic of unsaturated Ti on
TiO2surface can be deducted according to the hydrolysis
behavior of Ti4+ In other words Ti is covered by a largeamount of hydroxyl so surface functional groups of TiO
2are
mainly OH-group as shown in Figure 8 [33] This is similarwith the molecule model of TiO
2with surface attached with
water proposed by Huaxiang and Xuxu [33]
333 DissociationMorphology of SodiumStearate and SodiumOleate in Water Solution The molecular formula of sodiumstearate is CH
3(CH2)16COONa while that of sodium oleate
is CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH
2)7COONa (R-COONa for short)
Both of them are composed of long chain of polar hydrophiliccarboxyl and nonpolar hydrophobic alkane They can dis-solve in water solution and then the dissolved componentsare rehydrated The reaction formula is as follows
R-COONa 997888rarr R-COOminus + Na+ (10)
R-COOminus +H2O 997888rarr R-COOH +OHminus (11)
Dianzuo and Yuehua [34] studied the relationshipbetween the concentration of R-COO and R-COOH insodium oleate solution and pH value (see Figure 9) [34] Thefigure shows that the main morphology of R-COONa is R-COOH in the modification condition of TiO
2 and only few
R-COONa have coexistence of R-COOHandR-COOminus in thiswork Therefore it is believed that the action groups of TiO
2
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleate are mainlyR-COOH followed by R-COOminus
334 Model of Action between Modifier and TiO2 SurfaceThemodification mechanism of sodium stearate and sodiumoleate can be obtained according to above analysis on surfacefunctional groups of TiO
2particle and the dissociation
0 1 2 3 4 50
20
40
60
80
100
pH
Dist
ribut
ion
rate
Ti(OH)44C(()2
2+
4C(()3+
Figure 7 Distribution of Ti4+ hydrolysis component with pH value
O
O
H
OH
Ti
Ti
O OHTi
O HTi
TiO OH
Figure 8 Schematic diagram of TiO2surface adsorbed hydroxyl
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14pH
middotmiddotmiddot
FIAC
RCOO(()
RCOO((K)
RCOminus
RCOOH-RCOminus
(2minus)22minus
Figure 9 Distribution of sodium oleic acid in aqueous solution
morphology ofmodifiers Firstly R-COOH forms a hydrogenbond with OHminus on TiO
2particle surface for combination by
dihydroxylation reaction The combination can be realizedby forming hydrogen bond with C=O and OHminus on TiO
2
surface throughR-COOminusTherefore themodifier R-COONafirmly attaches to TiO
2particle surface to make organic
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 7
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
References
[1] E Reck and M Richards ldquoTiO2manufacture and life cycle
analysisrdquo Pigment and Resin Technology vol 28 no s3 pp 149ndash157 1999
[2] S-R Lu H-L Zhang C-X Zhao et al ldquoStudies on the prop-erties of a new hybridmaterials containing chain-extended ureaand SiO
2-TiO2particlesrdquo Polymer vol 46 no 23 pp 10484ndash
10492 2005[3] A Chatterjee ldquoEffect of nanoTiO
2addition on poly(methyl
methacrylate) an exciting nanocompositerdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 116 no 6 pp 3396ndash3407 2010
[4] F Loffredo I A Grimaldi A De Girolamo Del Mauro et alldquoPolyethylenimineN-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticlebased inks for ink-jet printing applicationsrdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 122 no 6 pp 3630ndash3636 2011
[5] C Xiaoquan and SWenhao ldquoResearch progress on the prepara-tion and application of nano titanium dioxide in papermakingrdquoPaper Science and technology vol 6 pp 109ndash114 2010
[6] A Sotto A Boromand R Zhang et al ldquoEffect of nanoparticleaggregation at low concentrations of TiO
2on the hydrophilicity
morphology and fouling resistance of PES-TiO2membranesrdquo
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 363 no 2 pp 540ndash550 2011
[7] J C Yu J Yu W Ho et al ldquoLight-induced super-hydrophilicityand photocatalytic activity of mesoporous TiO
2thin filmsrdquo
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry vol148 no 1 pp 331ndash339 2002
[8] Y Gao G Chen Y Oli et al ldquoStudy on tribological properties ofoleic acid-modified TiO
2nanoparticle in waterrdquoWear vol 252
no 5 pp 454ndash458 2002[9] NMaximous GNakhlaWWan et al ldquoPerformance of a novel
ZrO2PESmembrane forwastewater filtrationrdquo Journal ofMem-
brane Science vol 352 no 1 pp 222ndash230 2010[10] N Maximous G Nakhla W Wan et al ldquoPreparation charac-
terization and performance of Al2O3PESmembrane for waste-
water filtrationrdquo Journal of Membrane Science vol 341 no 1 pp67ndash75 2009
[11] Z Wanzhong Q Xueliang Q Lin et al ldquoPhotocatalytic mech-anism of nano titanium dioxide and its application in thetreatment of organic wastewaterrdquo Journal of Synthetic Crystalsvol 35 pp 1026ndash1031 2006
8 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
[12] C Hanlin Study on Photoelectrochemical degradation of organicpollutants and hydrogen production bymodified titania nanotubearray electrode South China University of Technology 2015
[13] L Daohui Ji Jing L Tian et al ldquoEnvironmental behavior andbiological toxicity of nanomaterialsrdquo Science Bulletin vol 23 pp3590ndash3604 2009
[14] Li Shugan and J Xiaoning ldquoTreatment method of medicalpolypropylene nonwoven fabricrdquo Industrial Textiles vol 29 pp30ndash33 2011
[15] H Park Y Park W Kim et al ldquoSurface modification ofTiO2photocatalyst for environmental applicationsrdquo Journal of
Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviewsvol 15 no 1 pp 1ndash20 2013
[16] C Yao G-S Gao X-P Lin X-J Yang L-D Lu and X WangldquoSurface modification of nanosized TiO
2with silane coupling
reagentrdquo Journal of Inorganic Materials vol 21 no 2 pp 315ndash321 2006
[17] X Gang Z Huashan Z Haodong et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of nano titanium dioxiderdquo Journal of KunmingUniversity of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering)vol 29 no 4 pp 39ndash42 2004
[18] H Xihai L Huimin L Fei et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodificationof nano titanium dioxiderdquo inorganic salt industry vol 44 no 1pp 30ndash32 2012
[19] F Hui Study on Surface Treatment and Application Performanceof Rutile Titanium Dioxide Jiangsu University 2007
[20] H Ding S-C Lu Y-X Deng and G-X Du ldquoMechano-activated surface modification of calcium carbonate in wetstirred mill and its propertiesrdquo Transactions of NonferrousMetals Society of China (English Edition) vol 17 no 5 pp 1100ndash1104 2007
[21] H Ding H Yushu and L shouci Ore sodium stearatemodifiedheavy calcium carbonate of non metallic mines wet ultrafinegrinding 1997 (4) 37-40
[22] H Ding H Zhou Y X Zheng and M M Wang ldquoEffect ofsodium stearate on grinding behaviour of calcium carbonate inwet stirred millrdquo Materials Research Innovations vol 17 no 1pp s292ndashs296 2013
[23] Y-X Weng L Li Y Liu L Wang and G-Z Yang ldquoSurface-binding forms of carboxylic groups on nanoparticulate TiO
2
surface studied by the interface-sensitive transient triplet-statemolecular proberdquo Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol 107 no18 pp 4356ndash4363 2003
[24] S Mallakpour and E Nikkhoo ldquoSurface modification of nano-TiO2with trimellitylimido-amino acid-based diacids for pre-
venting aggregation of nanoparticlesrdquo Advanced Powder Tech-nology vol 25 no 1 pp 348ndash353 2014
[25] D Q Vo E-J Kim and S Kim ldquoSurfacemodification of hydro-phobic nanocrystals using short-chain carboxylic acidsrdquo Jour-nal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 337 no 1 pp 75ndash802009
[26] Y Wang W Eli L Zhang H Gao Y Liu and P Li ldquoA newmethod for surface modification of nano-CaCO
3and nano-
Al2O3at room temperaturerdquo Advanced Powder Technology vol
21 no 2 pp 203ndash205 2010[27] T Zhisong L Runjing G Fen et al ldquoThe effect of coupling
agent on the surface modification of nano CaCO3rdquo Journal of
Beijing University of Chemical Technology 2004[28] W Shuzhong M Yixuan H Fuzeng et al ldquoStudy on inorganic
nano particlesstyrene butadiene latex composite technologyrdquoEncyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers vol 15 no 4 pp 437ndash4412002
[29] L Qinfu and X Xu ldquoEvaluation and Mechanism Study on theeffect of surface modification of kaolin in coal seriesrdquo Journal ofMaterials Science vol 14 no 3 pp 325ndash328 2009
[30] N Li G-z Ma and B-s Xu ldquoStudy on modification and prop-erties of calcined kaolin with stearic acidrdquo Applied ChemicalIndustry vol 38 no 8 pp 1136ndash1138 2009
[31] L Lihua ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of zinc boraterdquo Journalof Tangshan Normal University vol 38 pp 44ndash47 2016
[32] D D Perrin ldquoStability constants of metal-ion-complexesrdquoIUPAC vol 22 no Chemical Data Series 1979
[33] L huaxiang and W Xuxu ldquoTiO2surface hydroxyl groups and
their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
[34] W Dianzuo and H Yuehua Flotation Solution ChemistryHunan science and Technology Press Changsha Hunan 1988
Submit your manuscripts athttpswwwhindawicom
ScientificaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CorrosionInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Polymer ScienceInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CeramicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CompositesJournal of
NanoparticlesJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Biomaterials
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
NanoscienceJournal of
TextilesHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
NanotechnologyHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
CrystallographyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CoatingsJournal of
Advances in
Materials Science and EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Smart Materials Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MetallurgyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
MaterialsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
6 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
p1198962= log[Ti(OH)2
2+] [H+]
[Ti (OH)3+](7)
p1198963= log[Ti(OH)3
+] [H+][Ti (OH)2
2+](8)
p1198964= log[Ti (OH)4] [H
+][Ti(OH)3
+](9)
Therefore the relationship between components Ti4+Ti(OH)3+ Ti(OH)
2
2+ Ti(OH)3
+ and Ti(OH)4 and pH value
(minus log[H+]) is shown in Figure 7 [32]Figure 7 shows that with the increase of pH value in
system Ti4+ tends to generate polyhydroxy When pH lt 1Ti(OH)
2
2+ is taken as the principal when pH=2 Ti(OH)3
+ istaken as the principal when pHgt 4 Ti4+ will turn to Ti(OH)
4
component The result also shows that even when pH = 0sim1the concentration of OHminus in system is extremely small If theexternal action of hydrolysis is weak no Ti4+ and Ti(OH)3+
component is representedmeaning that the capability of Ti4+is strong in generating various hydroxylates It is obviousbecause the constants (pk
1simpk4) of Ti4+ hydrolysis reaction
in different levels keep in very high value (1306sim1415)The hydroxylation characteristic of unsaturated Ti on
TiO2surface can be deducted according to the hydrolysis
behavior of Ti4+ In other words Ti is covered by a largeamount of hydroxyl so surface functional groups of TiO
2are
mainly OH-group as shown in Figure 8 [33] This is similarwith the molecule model of TiO
2with surface attached with
water proposed by Huaxiang and Xuxu [33]
333 DissociationMorphology of SodiumStearate and SodiumOleate in Water Solution The molecular formula of sodiumstearate is CH
3(CH2)16COONa while that of sodium oleate
is CH3(CH2)7CH=CH(CH
2)7COONa (R-COONa for short)
Both of them are composed of long chain of polar hydrophiliccarboxyl and nonpolar hydrophobic alkane They can dis-solve in water solution and then the dissolved componentsare rehydrated The reaction formula is as follows
R-COONa 997888rarr R-COOminus + Na+ (10)
R-COOminus +H2O 997888rarr R-COOH +OHminus (11)
Dianzuo and Yuehua [34] studied the relationshipbetween the concentration of R-COO and R-COOH insodium oleate solution and pH value (see Figure 9) [34] Thefigure shows that the main morphology of R-COONa is R-COOH in the modification condition of TiO
2 and only few
R-COONa have coexistence of R-COOHandR-COOminus in thiswork Therefore it is believed that the action groups of TiO
2
modified with sodium stearate and sodium oleate are mainlyR-COOH followed by R-COOminus
334 Model of Action between Modifier and TiO2 SurfaceThemodification mechanism of sodium stearate and sodiumoleate can be obtained according to above analysis on surfacefunctional groups of TiO
2particle and the dissociation
0 1 2 3 4 50
20
40
60
80
100
pH
Dist
ribut
ion
rate
Ti(OH)44C(()2
2+
4C(()3+
Figure 7 Distribution of Ti4+ hydrolysis component with pH value
O
O
H
OH
Ti
Ti
O OHTi
O HTi
TiO OH
Figure 8 Schematic diagram of TiO2surface adsorbed hydroxyl
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14pH
middotmiddotmiddot
FIAC
RCOO(()
RCOO((K)
RCOminus
RCOOH-RCOminus
(2minus)22minus
Figure 9 Distribution of sodium oleic acid in aqueous solution
morphology ofmodifiers Firstly R-COOH forms a hydrogenbond with OHminus on TiO
2particle surface for combination by
dihydroxylation reaction The combination can be realizedby forming hydrogen bond with C=O and OHminus on TiO
2
surface throughR-COOminusTherefore themodifier R-COONafirmly attaches to TiO
2particle surface to make organic
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 7
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
References
[1] E Reck and M Richards ldquoTiO2manufacture and life cycle
analysisrdquo Pigment and Resin Technology vol 28 no s3 pp 149ndash157 1999
[2] S-R Lu H-L Zhang C-X Zhao et al ldquoStudies on the prop-erties of a new hybridmaterials containing chain-extended ureaand SiO
2-TiO2particlesrdquo Polymer vol 46 no 23 pp 10484ndash
10492 2005[3] A Chatterjee ldquoEffect of nanoTiO
2addition on poly(methyl
methacrylate) an exciting nanocompositerdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 116 no 6 pp 3396ndash3407 2010
[4] F Loffredo I A Grimaldi A De Girolamo Del Mauro et alldquoPolyethylenimineN-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticlebased inks for ink-jet printing applicationsrdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 122 no 6 pp 3630ndash3636 2011
[5] C Xiaoquan and SWenhao ldquoResearch progress on the prepara-tion and application of nano titanium dioxide in papermakingrdquoPaper Science and technology vol 6 pp 109ndash114 2010
[6] A Sotto A Boromand R Zhang et al ldquoEffect of nanoparticleaggregation at low concentrations of TiO
2on the hydrophilicity
morphology and fouling resistance of PES-TiO2membranesrdquo
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 363 no 2 pp 540ndash550 2011
[7] J C Yu J Yu W Ho et al ldquoLight-induced super-hydrophilicityand photocatalytic activity of mesoporous TiO
2thin filmsrdquo
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry vol148 no 1 pp 331ndash339 2002
[8] Y Gao G Chen Y Oli et al ldquoStudy on tribological properties ofoleic acid-modified TiO
2nanoparticle in waterrdquoWear vol 252
no 5 pp 454ndash458 2002[9] NMaximous GNakhlaWWan et al ldquoPerformance of a novel
ZrO2PESmembrane forwastewater filtrationrdquo Journal ofMem-
brane Science vol 352 no 1 pp 222ndash230 2010[10] N Maximous G Nakhla W Wan et al ldquoPreparation charac-
terization and performance of Al2O3PESmembrane for waste-
water filtrationrdquo Journal of Membrane Science vol 341 no 1 pp67ndash75 2009
[11] Z Wanzhong Q Xueliang Q Lin et al ldquoPhotocatalytic mech-anism of nano titanium dioxide and its application in thetreatment of organic wastewaterrdquo Journal of Synthetic Crystalsvol 35 pp 1026ndash1031 2006
8 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
[12] C Hanlin Study on Photoelectrochemical degradation of organicpollutants and hydrogen production bymodified titania nanotubearray electrode South China University of Technology 2015
[13] L Daohui Ji Jing L Tian et al ldquoEnvironmental behavior andbiological toxicity of nanomaterialsrdquo Science Bulletin vol 23 pp3590ndash3604 2009
[14] Li Shugan and J Xiaoning ldquoTreatment method of medicalpolypropylene nonwoven fabricrdquo Industrial Textiles vol 29 pp30ndash33 2011
[15] H Park Y Park W Kim et al ldquoSurface modification ofTiO2photocatalyst for environmental applicationsrdquo Journal of
Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviewsvol 15 no 1 pp 1ndash20 2013
[16] C Yao G-S Gao X-P Lin X-J Yang L-D Lu and X WangldquoSurface modification of nanosized TiO
2with silane coupling
reagentrdquo Journal of Inorganic Materials vol 21 no 2 pp 315ndash321 2006
[17] X Gang Z Huashan Z Haodong et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of nano titanium dioxiderdquo Journal of KunmingUniversity of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering)vol 29 no 4 pp 39ndash42 2004
[18] H Xihai L Huimin L Fei et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodificationof nano titanium dioxiderdquo inorganic salt industry vol 44 no 1pp 30ndash32 2012
[19] F Hui Study on Surface Treatment and Application Performanceof Rutile Titanium Dioxide Jiangsu University 2007
[20] H Ding S-C Lu Y-X Deng and G-X Du ldquoMechano-activated surface modification of calcium carbonate in wetstirred mill and its propertiesrdquo Transactions of NonferrousMetals Society of China (English Edition) vol 17 no 5 pp 1100ndash1104 2007
[21] H Ding H Yushu and L shouci Ore sodium stearatemodifiedheavy calcium carbonate of non metallic mines wet ultrafinegrinding 1997 (4) 37-40
[22] H Ding H Zhou Y X Zheng and M M Wang ldquoEffect ofsodium stearate on grinding behaviour of calcium carbonate inwet stirred millrdquo Materials Research Innovations vol 17 no 1pp s292ndashs296 2013
[23] Y-X Weng L Li Y Liu L Wang and G-Z Yang ldquoSurface-binding forms of carboxylic groups on nanoparticulate TiO
2
surface studied by the interface-sensitive transient triplet-statemolecular proberdquo Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol 107 no18 pp 4356ndash4363 2003
[24] S Mallakpour and E Nikkhoo ldquoSurface modification of nano-TiO2with trimellitylimido-amino acid-based diacids for pre-
venting aggregation of nanoparticlesrdquo Advanced Powder Tech-nology vol 25 no 1 pp 348ndash353 2014
[25] D Q Vo E-J Kim and S Kim ldquoSurfacemodification of hydro-phobic nanocrystals using short-chain carboxylic acidsrdquo Jour-nal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 337 no 1 pp 75ndash802009
[26] Y Wang W Eli L Zhang H Gao Y Liu and P Li ldquoA newmethod for surface modification of nano-CaCO
3and nano-
Al2O3at room temperaturerdquo Advanced Powder Technology vol
21 no 2 pp 203ndash205 2010[27] T Zhisong L Runjing G Fen et al ldquoThe effect of coupling
agent on the surface modification of nano CaCO3rdquo Journal of
Beijing University of Chemical Technology 2004[28] W Shuzhong M Yixuan H Fuzeng et al ldquoStudy on inorganic
nano particlesstyrene butadiene latex composite technologyrdquoEncyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers vol 15 no 4 pp 437ndash4412002
[29] L Qinfu and X Xu ldquoEvaluation and Mechanism Study on theeffect of surface modification of kaolin in coal seriesrdquo Journal ofMaterials Science vol 14 no 3 pp 325ndash328 2009
[30] N Li G-z Ma and B-s Xu ldquoStudy on modification and prop-erties of calcined kaolin with stearic acidrdquo Applied ChemicalIndustry vol 38 no 8 pp 1136ndash1138 2009
[31] L Lihua ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of zinc boraterdquo Journalof Tangshan Normal University vol 38 pp 44ndash47 2016
[32] D D Perrin ldquoStability constants of metal-ion-complexesrdquoIUPAC vol 22 no Chemical Data Series 1979
[33] L huaxiang and W Xuxu ldquoTiO2surface hydroxyl groups and
their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
[34] W Dianzuo and H Yuehua Flotation Solution ChemistryHunan science and Technology Press Changsha Hunan 1988
Submit your manuscripts athttpswwwhindawicom
ScientificaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CorrosionInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Polymer ScienceInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CeramicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CompositesJournal of
NanoparticlesJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Biomaterials
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
NanoscienceJournal of
TextilesHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
NanotechnologyHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
CrystallographyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CoatingsJournal of
Advances in
Materials Science and EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Smart Materials Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MetallurgyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
MaterialsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 7
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
OH
H
OH
O
OH
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O=C-R
HOOC-R
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
Ti
O
H
O
O
O
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
O=C-R
OC-R
minus minus
minusminus
(2O
(2O
(2O
Figure 10 Schematic diagram of TiO2modified by sodium stearate and sodium oleate
hydrocarbon chain distribute externally on particle surfaceTherefore TiO
2has strong hydrophobicity OHminus onTiO
2sur-
face is covered by R-COOH and R-COOminus attachment so theabsorption peaks reflect hydroxyl in infrared spectroscopy ofTiO2after modification
The reaction model of modifier on TiO2particle surface
in wet process is established as according to above resultanalysis (See Figure 10)
4 Conclusions
Surface modification was conducted to TiO2particle with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate TiO2particle surface
turns from hydrophilia to hydrophobicity while the hydro-phobicity degree can be controlled by changing modifierdosage
In aqueous medium wetting contact angle of TiO2
particle greatly enlarges after modifying sodium stearate andsodium oleate The increase of activation index shows thatwettability in water medium becomes poor The wettingcontact angle of modified TiO
2particle in absolute ethyl
alcohol and kerosene is significantly lower than that in watermedium showing the good compatibility of organic matrix
TiO2infrared spectroscopic analysis before and after
modification shows that the modifier forms effective attach-ment on TiO
2particle surface With such attachment induc-
tive hydrophobicity forms on TiO2particle surface It is
relatively stable because attachment of modifier has certainchemical propertiesThe actionmodel of TiO
2modified with
sodium stearate and sodium oleate was established based onthe analysis on the functional groups of TiO
2particle surface
and the dissociation morphology of modifiers
Disclosure
Zhou Hong is the first author
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China ldquoFundamental Researches of Theory and
Technology for Self-Assembly Compound of Calcium Car-bonate and TiO
2driven by Particle-Induced Hydrophobic
Effectrdquo (Grant no 51474194)
References
[1] E Reck and M Richards ldquoTiO2manufacture and life cycle
analysisrdquo Pigment and Resin Technology vol 28 no s3 pp 149ndash157 1999
[2] S-R Lu H-L Zhang C-X Zhao et al ldquoStudies on the prop-erties of a new hybridmaterials containing chain-extended ureaand SiO
2-TiO2particlesrdquo Polymer vol 46 no 23 pp 10484ndash
10492 2005[3] A Chatterjee ldquoEffect of nanoTiO
2addition on poly(methyl
methacrylate) an exciting nanocompositerdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 116 no 6 pp 3396ndash3407 2010
[4] F Loffredo I A Grimaldi A De Girolamo Del Mauro et alldquoPolyethylenimineN-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticlebased inks for ink-jet printing applicationsrdquo Journal of AppliedPolymer Science vol 122 no 6 pp 3630ndash3636 2011
[5] C Xiaoquan and SWenhao ldquoResearch progress on the prepara-tion and application of nano titanium dioxide in papermakingrdquoPaper Science and technology vol 6 pp 109ndash114 2010
[6] A Sotto A Boromand R Zhang et al ldquoEffect of nanoparticleaggregation at low concentrations of TiO
2on the hydrophilicity
morphology and fouling resistance of PES-TiO2membranesrdquo
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 363 no 2 pp 540ndash550 2011
[7] J C Yu J Yu W Ho et al ldquoLight-induced super-hydrophilicityand photocatalytic activity of mesoporous TiO
2thin filmsrdquo
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry vol148 no 1 pp 331ndash339 2002
[8] Y Gao G Chen Y Oli et al ldquoStudy on tribological properties ofoleic acid-modified TiO
2nanoparticle in waterrdquoWear vol 252
no 5 pp 454ndash458 2002[9] NMaximous GNakhlaWWan et al ldquoPerformance of a novel
ZrO2PESmembrane forwastewater filtrationrdquo Journal ofMem-
brane Science vol 352 no 1 pp 222ndash230 2010[10] N Maximous G Nakhla W Wan et al ldquoPreparation charac-
terization and performance of Al2O3PESmembrane for waste-
water filtrationrdquo Journal of Membrane Science vol 341 no 1 pp67ndash75 2009
[11] Z Wanzhong Q Xueliang Q Lin et al ldquoPhotocatalytic mech-anism of nano titanium dioxide and its application in thetreatment of organic wastewaterrdquo Journal of Synthetic Crystalsvol 35 pp 1026ndash1031 2006
8 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
[12] C Hanlin Study on Photoelectrochemical degradation of organicpollutants and hydrogen production bymodified titania nanotubearray electrode South China University of Technology 2015
[13] L Daohui Ji Jing L Tian et al ldquoEnvironmental behavior andbiological toxicity of nanomaterialsrdquo Science Bulletin vol 23 pp3590ndash3604 2009
[14] Li Shugan and J Xiaoning ldquoTreatment method of medicalpolypropylene nonwoven fabricrdquo Industrial Textiles vol 29 pp30ndash33 2011
[15] H Park Y Park W Kim et al ldquoSurface modification ofTiO2photocatalyst for environmental applicationsrdquo Journal of
Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviewsvol 15 no 1 pp 1ndash20 2013
[16] C Yao G-S Gao X-P Lin X-J Yang L-D Lu and X WangldquoSurface modification of nanosized TiO
2with silane coupling
reagentrdquo Journal of Inorganic Materials vol 21 no 2 pp 315ndash321 2006
[17] X Gang Z Huashan Z Haodong et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of nano titanium dioxiderdquo Journal of KunmingUniversity of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering)vol 29 no 4 pp 39ndash42 2004
[18] H Xihai L Huimin L Fei et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodificationof nano titanium dioxiderdquo inorganic salt industry vol 44 no 1pp 30ndash32 2012
[19] F Hui Study on Surface Treatment and Application Performanceof Rutile Titanium Dioxide Jiangsu University 2007
[20] H Ding S-C Lu Y-X Deng and G-X Du ldquoMechano-activated surface modification of calcium carbonate in wetstirred mill and its propertiesrdquo Transactions of NonferrousMetals Society of China (English Edition) vol 17 no 5 pp 1100ndash1104 2007
[21] H Ding H Yushu and L shouci Ore sodium stearatemodifiedheavy calcium carbonate of non metallic mines wet ultrafinegrinding 1997 (4) 37-40
[22] H Ding H Zhou Y X Zheng and M M Wang ldquoEffect ofsodium stearate on grinding behaviour of calcium carbonate inwet stirred millrdquo Materials Research Innovations vol 17 no 1pp s292ndashs296 2013
[23] Y-X Weng L Li Y Liu L Wang and G-Z Yang ldquoSurface-binding forms of carboxylic groups on nanoparticulate TiO
2
surface studied by the interface-sensitive transient triplet-statemolecular proberdquo Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol 107 no18 pp 4356ndash4363 2003
[24] S Mallakpour and E Nikkhoo ldquoSurface modification of nano-TiO2with trimellitylimido-amino acid-based diacids for pre-
venting aggregation of nanoparticlesrdquo Advanced Powder Tech-nology vol 25 no 1 pp 348ndash353 2014
[25] D Q Vo E-J Kim and S Kim ldquoSurfacemodification of hydro-phobic nanocrystals using short-chain carboxylic acidsrdquo Jour-nal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 337 no 1 pp 75ndash802009
[26] Y Wang W Eli L Zhang H Gao Y Liu and P Li ldquoA newmethod for surface modification of nano-CaCO
3and nano-
Al2O3at room temperaturerdquo Advanced Powder Technology vol
21 no 2 pp 203ndash205 2010[27] T Zhisong L Runjing G Fen et al ldquoThe effect of coupling
agent on the surface modification of nano CaCO3rdquo Journal of
Beijing University of Chemical Technology 2004[28] W Shuzhong M Yixuan H Fuzeng et al ldquoStudy on inorganic
nano particlesstyrene butadiene latex composite technologyrdquoEncyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers vol 15 no 4 pp 437ndash4412002
[29] L Qinfu and X Xu ldquoEvaluation and Mechanism Study on theeffect of surface modification of kaolin in coal seriesrdquo Journal ofMaterials Science vol 14 no 3 pp 325ndash328 2009
[30] N Li G-z Ma and B-s Xu ldquoStudy on modification and prop-erties of calcined kaolin with stearic acidrdquo Applied ChemicalIndustry vol 38 no 8 pp 1136ndash1138 2009
[31] L Lihua ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of zinc boraterdquo Journalof Tangshan Normal University vol 38 pp 44ndash47 2016
[32] D D Perrin ldquoStability constants of metal-ion-complexesrdquoIUPAC vol 22 no Chemical Data Series 1979
[33] L huaxiang and W Xuxu ldquoTiO2surface hydroxyl groups and
their propertiesrdquo Progress in Chemistry vol 19 no 5 pp 665ndash670 2007
[34] W Dianzuo and H Yuehua Flotation Solution ChemistryHunan science and Technology Press Changsha Hunan 1988
Submit your manuscripts athttpswwwhindawicom
ScientificaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CorrosionInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Polymer ScienceInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CeramicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CompositesJournal of
NanoparticlesJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Biomaterials
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
NanoscienceJournal of
TextilesHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
NanotechnologyHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
CrystallographyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CoatingsJournal of
Advances in
Materials Science and EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Smart Materials Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MetallurgyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
MaterialsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
8 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
[12] C Hanlin Study on Photoelectrochemical degradation of organicpollutants and hydrogen production bymodified titania nanotubearray electrode South China University of Technology 2015
[13] L Daohui Ji Jing L Tian et al ldquoEnvironmental behavior andbiological toxicity of nanomaterialsrdquo Science Bulletin vol 23 pp3590ndash3604 2009
[14] Li Shugan and J Xiaoning ldquoTreatment method of medicalpolypropylene nonwoven fabricrdquo Industrial Textiles vol 29 pp30ndash33 2011
[15] H Park Y Park W Kim et al ldquoSurface modification ofTiO2photocatalyst for environmental applicationsrdquo Journal of
Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviewsvol 15 no 1 pp 1ndash20 2013
[16] C Yao G-S Gao X-P Lin X-J Yang L-D Lu and X WangldquoSurface modification of nanosized TiO
2with silane coupling
reagentrdquo Journal of Inorganic Materials vol 21 no 2 pp 315ndash321 2006
[17] X Gang Z Huashan Z Haodong et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodification of nano titanium dioxiderdquo Journal of KunmingUniversity of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering)vol 29 no 4 pp 39ndash42 2004
[18] H Xihai L Huimin L Fei et al ldquoStudy on surfacemodificationof nano titanium dioxiderdquo inorganic salt industry vol 44 no 1pp 30ndash32 2012
[19] F Hui Study on Surface Treatment and Application Performanceof Rutile Titanium Dioxide Jiangsu University 2007
[20] H Ding S-C Lu Y-X Deng and G-X Du ldquoMechano-activated surface modification of calcium carbonate in wetstirred mill and its propertiesrdquo Transactions of NonferrousMetals Society of China (English Edition) vol 17 no 5 pp 1100ndash1104 2007
[21] H Ding H Yushu and L shouci Ore sodium stearatemodifiedheavy calcium carbonate of non metallic mines wet ultrafinegrinding 1997 (4) 37-40
[22] H Ding H Zhou Y X Zheng and M M Wang ldquoEffect ofsodium stearate on grinding behaviour of calcium carbonate inwet stirred millrdquo Materials Research Innovations vol 17 no 1pp s292ndashs296 2013
[23] Y-X Weng L Li Y Liu L Wang and G-Z Yang ldquoSurface-binding forms of carboxylic groups on nanoparticulate TiO
2
surface studied by the interface-sensitive transient triplet-statemolecular proberdquo Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol 107 no18 pp 4356ndash4363 2003
[24] S Mallakpour and E Nikkhoo ldquoSurface modification of nano-TiO2with trimellitylimido-amino acid-based diacids for pre-
venting aggregation of nanoparticlesrdquo Advanced Powder Tech-nology vol 25 no 1 pp 348ndash353 2014
[25] D Q Vo E-J Kim and S Kim ldquoSurfacemodification of hydro-phobic nanocrystals using short-chain carboxylic acidsrdquo Jour-nal of Colloid and Interface Science vol 337 no 1 pp 75ndash802009
[26] Y Wang W Eli L Zhang H Gao Y Liu and P Li ldquoA newmethod for surface modification of nano-CaCO
3and nano-
Al2O3at room temperaturerdquo Advanced Powder Technology vol
21 no 2 pp 203ndash205 2010[27] T Zhisong L Runjing G Fen et al ldquoThe effect of coupling
agent on the surface modification of nano CaCO3rdquo Journal of
Beijing University of Chemical Technology 2004[28] W Shuzhong M Yixuan H Fuzeng et al ldquoStudy on inorganic
nano particlesstyrene butadiene latex composite technologyrdquoEncyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers vol 15 no 4 pp 437ndash4412002
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International Journal of
Biomaterials
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CrystallographyJournal of
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CoatingsJournal of
Advances in
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