Abstract
The control of microstructure of TiO2 coating through preparation methods influences significantly the performance of the coating. In this study, vacuum cold spray process as a new coating technology is employed to deposit nanocrystalline TiO2 coatings on glass and stainless steel substrates. TiO2 deposits were formed using two types of nanocrystalline TiO2 powders having mean particle diameters of 200 nm and 25 nm. The microstructure of the coating was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction analysis. The results demonstrate that a thick nanocrystalline TiO2 coating can be deposited by vacuum cold spray process. The coating was stacked of particles in agglomerate of several hundred nanometers. The coating presents a mesoporous microstructure which would be effective for applications in photocatalytic degradation, dye-sensitized solar cell and so on.
