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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 461324, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/461324 Research Article Effect of the Steam Activation Thermal Treatment on the Microstructure of Continuous TiO2 Fibers Xiangchao Zhang,1 Shiying Zhang,1, 2 Yang You,1 and Yunlong Li1 1 Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Institute of New Materials, Changsha University, Changsha 410022, China 2 State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Photocatalysis, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China Correspondence should be addressed to Shiying Zhang, cdzhangshiying@163.com Received 17 April 2012; Accepted 6 June 2012 Academic Editor: Jiaguo Yu Copyright © 2012 Xiangchao Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The continuous TiO2 fibers have been synthesized by the sol-gel method using the polymer of titanate as the precursor solution. The as-synthesized samples were characterized using XRD, SEM, and HR-TEM analysis methods. The grain growth kinetics was primarily investigated. The results demonstrated that the average diameters of the fibers were in the range of 20–30 μm, the crystal phase of the synthesized TiO2 fiber was transformed from anasate to rutile, and the crystal size became bigger with increasing the temperature using steam activation. The growth exponent and the constant of growth rate of the rutile crystal phase at 500◦C were 6 ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ 4 and 2.55 × 10 nm/h, respectively. The activation energies of crystalline growth during