The White Paper presented here is the result of the 2nd Think Tank meeting held by the EUROFUNG consortium in Berlin in October 2019. This paper highlights discussions on current opportunities and research challenges in fungal biotechnology and aims to inform scientists, educators, the general public, industrial stakeholders and policymakers about the current fungal biotech revolution.
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By conducting several experiments, we showed how the morphology of the final TiO2 powder can be tailored by different concentration of hydrothermally treated solution. And preliminary results demonstrate that highly branched TiO2 crystals, which have higher specific surface area, have a positive effect on the degradation rate. Low branched crystals needed much longer time to degradate the caffeine solution, that highly branched TiO2 crystals.
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We showed how the morphology and crystal phase of the final powder can be tailored by different heating rates. Slower heating rates resulted in pure rutile-type TiO2, with branched grains and sizes of around 300 nm. When solution was heated up quickly, produced crystals were smaller, with more spherical crystals and in anatase form. A bottom-up designed TiO2 crystals can be used as photocatalyst.
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