ABSTRACT
The development of nanostructured materials offers unique opportunities to address many technological problems. Of particular interest are functional surfaces that can be utilized using renewable energy sources, such as sunlight, for a range of sustainable applications. Anatase titania has very good electrical and photocatalytic properties, but while nanostructures of this phase offer many advantages, they are particularly difficult to fabricate. This chapter presents an entirely novel approach to this problem, namely, the coating of substoichiometric silica glass nanowires with thin anatase titania films. We compare films using different coating techniques and demonstrate that these methods can uniformly coat silica nanowires with anatase titania to produce large-surface-area nanostructures.
