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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanotechnology Volume 2012, Article ID 102361, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/102361 Research Article Characterization of Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles Obtained by Hydrolysis Reaction of Ethylene Glycol Solution of Alkoxide Naofumi Uekawa, Naoya Endo, Keisuke Ishii, Takashi Kojima, and Kazuyuki Kakegawa Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi 263-8522, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Naofumi Uekawa, uekawa@faculty.chiba-u.jp Received 1 December 2011; Revised 15 February 2012; Accepted 29 February 2012 Academic Editor: Wegdan Ramadan Copyright © 2012 Naofumi Uekawa 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. Transparent and stable sols of titanium oxide nanoparticles were obtained by heating a mixture of ethylene glycol solution of tita- nium tetraisopropoxide (TIP) and a NH3 aqueous solution at 368 K for 24 h. The concentration of NH3 aqueous solution affected the structure of the obtained titanium oxide nanoparticles. For NH3 aqueous solution concentrations higher than 0.2 mol/L, a mixture of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles and layered titanic acid nanoparticles was obtained. The obtained sol was very stable without formation of aggregated precipitates and gels. Coordination of ethylene glycol to Ti4+ ions inhibited the rapid hydrolysis reaction and aggregation of the obtained nanoparticles. The obtained titanium oxide nanoparticles had a large specific surface area: larger than 350 m2/g. The obtained titanium oxide nanoparticles showed an enhanced adsorption towards the cationic dye