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Alwin E, Wojcieszak R, Kočí K, Edelmannová M, Zieliński M, Suchora A, Pędziński T, Pietrowski M. Reductive Modification of Carbon Nitride Structure by Metals-The Influence on Structure and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Materials (Basel) 2022; 15:ma15030710. [PMID: 35160664 PMCID: PMC8836795 DOI: 10.3390/ma15030710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Pt, Ru, and Ir were introduced onto the surface of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) using the wet impregnation method. A reduction of these photocatalysts with hydrogen causes several changes, such as a significant increase in the specific surface area, a C/N atomic ratio, a number of defects in the crystalline structure of g-C3N4, and the contribution of nitrogen bound to the amino and imino groups. According to the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results, a transition layer is formed at the g-C3N4/metal nanoparticle interphase, which contains metal at a positive degree of oxidation bonded to nitrogen. These structural changes significantly enhanced the photocatalytic activity in the production of hydrogen through the water-splitting reaction. The activity of the platinum photocatalyst was 24 times greater than that of pristine g-C3N4. Moreover, the enhanced activity was attributed to significantly better separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs on metal nanoparticles and structural distortions of g-C3N4.
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- Emilia Alwin
- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland; (E.A.); (M.Z.); (A.S.); (T.P.)
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181-UCCS-Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, F-59000 Lille, France;
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- Institute of Environmental Technology, CEET, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15/2172, 70800 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic; (K.K.); (M.E.)
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- Institute of Environmental Technology, CEET, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15/2172, 70800 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic; (K.K.); (M.E.)
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland; (E.A.); (M.Z.); (A.S.); (T.P.)
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland; (E.A.); (M.Z.); (A.S.); (T.P.)
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland; (E.A.); (M.Z.); (A.S.); (T.P.)
- Centre for Advanced Technologies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 10, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland; (E.A.); (M.Z.); (A.S.); (T.P.)
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Santamaría L, Vicente MA, Korili SA, Gil A. Effect of the preparation method and metal content on the synthesis of metal modified titanium oxide used for the removal of salicylic acid under UV light. Environ Technol 2020; 41:2073-2084. [PMID: 30501486 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1555285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Titanium dioxide modified with Ag and Fe was synthesized using two preparation methods, characterized and applied to the photocatalytic degradation of salicylic acid in aqueous solution. The modified TiO2 samples were prepared by the sol-gel and wet impregnation methods starting from titanium(IV) isopropoxide and using AgNO3 and Fe(NO3)3·9H2O as precursors of the modifiers, with their content varying between 0 and 5 wt.%. Catalysts characterization was based on powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), nitrogen physisorption at 77 K, temperature programmed reduction (H2-TPR), chemisorption of NH3 at 343 K and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The photocatalytic degradation of salicylic acid by modified TiO2 was investigated under ultraviolet irradiation at 298 K considering various concentrations of the catalyst, between 100 and 1000 mgcatalyst/dm3, and of the organic molecule, between 0 and 15 mg/dm3. The catalysts most active in the degradation of salicylic acid were those having the highest Fe content.
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- L Santamaría
- INAMAT-Departamento de Ciencias, Edificio de los Acebos, Universidad Pública de Navarra Pamplona, Spain
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- GIR-QUESCAT, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- INAMAT-Departamento de Ciencias, Edificio de los Acebos, Universidad Pública de Navarra Pamplona, Spain
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- INAMAT-Departamento de Ciencias, Edificio de los Acebos, Universidad Pública de Navarra Pamplona, Spain
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Zhang C, Oliaee SN, Hwang SY, Kong X, Peng Z. A Generic Wet Impregnation Method for Preparing Substrate-Supported Platinum Group Metal and Alloy Nanoparticles with Controlled Particle Morphology. Nano Lett 2016; 16:164-169. [PMID: 26642094 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Mass production of shape-controlled platinum group metal (PGM) and alloy nanoparticles is of high importance for their many fascinating properties in catalysis, electronics, and photonics. Despite of successful demonstrations at milligram scale using wet chemistry syntheses in many fundamental studies, there is still a big gap between the current methods and their real applications due to the complex synthetic procedures, scale-up difficulty, and surface contamination problem of the made particles. Here we report a generic wet impregnation method for facile, surfactant-free, and scalable preparation of nanoparticles of PGMs and their alloys on different substrate materials with controlled particle morphology and clean surface, which bridges the outstanding properties of these nanoparticles to practical important applications. The underlying particle growth and shape formation mechanisms were investigated using a combination of ex situ and in situ characterizations and were attributed to their different interactions with the applied gas molecules.
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- Changlin Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron , Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron , Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron , Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron , Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron , Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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