Qf. Zhou et al., PREPARATION AND OPTICAL-PROPERTIES OF TIO2 NANOCRYSTALLINE PARTICLES DISPERSED IN SIO2 NANO-COMPOSITES, Materials letters, 31(1-2), 1997, pp. 39-42
Nano-composites of TiO2 nanocrystalline particles dispersed in SiO2 ha
ve been successfully prepared by the two-step hydrolysis of Si(OC2H5)(
4) derived by the sol-gel technique using TiO2 ultrafine powder as a a
ctive component. The influence of processing factors has been investig
ated; a two-step rapid gelation method in sol-gel processing has been
developed, The optical absorption spectrum and the third-order nonline
ar susceptibility chi((3)) of the nano-composites were measured, the h
ighest chi((3)) of the sample was 4.1 x 10(-11) esu measured by the DF
WM method.