What do we do?

The Titania Coatings senior design team is working to design and perfect a product that will work to passively reduce ambient air pollutants, mainly NOx and VOCs. Our product is a spray coating that utilizes nanoscale Titanium Dioxide and can be applied in a thin layer to any rigid outdoor surface, primarily rooftops. The team's current goal is to create an airshed model of the rate of pollutant oxidation on the surface of treated roof tiles in order to determine the sustainability impact of our product on the environment.

How does it work?

Titanium dioxide treated roof tiles undergo a photocatalytic reaction, oxidizing NOx and converting it into solid nitrates.