the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.29973023);the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education(No.205088);the Scientific Research Bonus Foundation for Young and Middle-aged Scientists of Shandong Province(No.2004BS04009); the Foundation of Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry(Shandong University);Ministry of Education.
The nanosized xerogel of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and manganese oxides (MnO2, Mn2O3, Mn3O4) was prepared by the sol-gel method using manganese chloride (MnCl2·4H2O) and titanium isopropoxide (Ti(O-iPr)4) as precursors...