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Fast and Simple Microwave Synthesis of TiO2/Au Nanoparticles for Gas-Phase Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Chemistry, April 2018
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Title
Fast and Simple Microwave Synthesis of TiO2/Au Nanoparticles for Gas-Phase Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation
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Frontiers in Chemistry, April 2018
DOI 10.3389/fchem.2018.00110
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Anna May-Masnou, Lluís Soler, Miquel Torras, Pol Salles, Jordi Llorca, Anna Roig

Abstract

The fabrication of small anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) attached to larger anisotropic gold (Au) morphologies by a very fast and simple two-step microwave-assisted synthesis is presented. The TiO2/Au NPs are synthesized using polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as reducing, capping and stabilizing agent through a polyol approach. To optimize the contact between the titania and the gold and facilitate electron transfer, the PVP is removed by calcination at mild temperatures. The nanocatalysts activity is then evaluated in the photocatalytic production of hydrogen from water/ethanol mixtures in gas-phase at ambient temperature. A maximum value of 5.3 mmol·[Formula: see text]h-1 (7.4 mmol·[Formula: see text]h-1) of hydrogen is recorded for the system with larger gold particles at an optimum calcination temperature of 450°C. Herein we demonstrate that TiO2-based photocatalysts with high Au loading and large Au particle size (≈50 nm) NPs have photocatalytic activity.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 29%
Researcher 7 11%
Other 6 10%
Student > Master 5 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 14 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Materials Science 13 21%
Chemistry 11 18%
Engineering 8 13%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Chemical Engineering 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 20 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 October 2019.
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#13,355,661
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Outputs from Frontiers in Chemistry
#782
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#165,161
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Chemistry
#30
of 149 outputs
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