Titanium dioxide-polymer nanocomposites with advanced properties

Abstract

Titanium dioxide, TiO2, an inexpensive and non-toxic semiconductor, exhibits very interesting characteristics that make its incorporation into polymeric matrices as nanoparticles an appropriate methodology to develop new nanocomposites with enhanced behavior. This chapter describes general features of TiO2, including its preparation protocols and disinfection capability, as well as itemizes different TiO2-polymer-based nanocomposites in order to learn how they can be prepared and about the improvement that TiO2 presence confers to the ultimate properties displayed by the final materials.