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Catalysts, Volume 7, Issue 4

April 2017 - 30 articles

Cover Story: The increasing demand for highly efficient, visible-light-active photocatalysts can be addressed by TiO2-based hybrid nanostructured materials combining together two or more units, each bringing its own peculiar characteristics, surface chemistry and morphology, into one nano-object with unprecedented chemical and physical properties. Modern material science allows to suitably tailoring size, shape, crystalline phase and properly engineering surface chemistry of these hybrid nano-architectures to enhance their photocatalytic performances. Such hybrid nanocatalysts have demonstrated very promising for environmental applications including water remediation, abatement of atmospheric pollutants (NOx and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)) and self-cleaning surfaces. View the paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,130 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2017

This research introduces a completely new environmental benign synthesis route for obtaining two kinds of inter-mediate and high temperature CO2 sorbents, Mg-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) and Li4SiO4, from vermiculite. The mineral vermiculite was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,904 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2017

Ni–Ce–Zr mixed oxides were prepared through one-pot hydrolysis of mixed metal nitrates with ammonium carbonate for CO2 methanation. The effects of Ce/Zr molar ratio and Ni content on catalysts’ physical and chemical properties, reduction degree of Ni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,135 Views
10 Pages

30 March 2017

Six Co-Rh/Fe3O4 catalysts with different cobalt loadings were prepared by the co-precipitation of RhCl3, Co(NO3)2, and Fe(NO3)3 using Na2CO3 as the precipitant. These catalysts were tested for dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) hydroformylation to monoformyltr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,728 Views
10 Pages

27 March 2017

Caprolactam-based ionic liquids show many advantages, such as the lower toxicity, lower cost, and a simple preparation process. In this work, caprolactam-based ionic liquids were prepared and adopted as catalysts for the transesterification of Jatrop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,635 Views
18 Pages

High Catalytic Activity of Heterometallic (Fe6Na7 and Fe6Na6) Cage Silsesquioxanes in Oxidations with Peroxides

  • Alexey I. Yalymov,
  • Alexey N. Bilyachenko,
  • Mikhail M. Levitsky,
  • Alexander A. Korlyukov,
  • Victor N. Khrustalev,
  • Lidia S. Shul’pina,
  • Pavel V. Dorovatovskii,
  • Marina A. Es’kova,
  • Frédéric Lamaty and
  • Xavier Bantreil
  • + 5 authors

27 March 2017

Two types of heterometallic (Fe(III),Na) silsesquioxanes—[Ph5Si5O10]2[Ph10Si10O21]Fe6(O2‒)2Na7(H3O+)(MeOH)2(MeCN)4.5.1.25(MeCN), I, and [Ph5Si5O10]2[Ph4Si4O8]2Fe6Na6(O2‒)3(MeCN)8.5(H2O)8.44, II—were obtained and characterized. X-ray studies establish...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
11,587 Views
33 Pages

Visible-Light-Active TiO2-Based Hybrid Nanocatalysts for Environmental Applications

  • Alessandra Truppi,
  • Francesca Petronella,
  • Tiziana Placido,
  • Marinella Striccoli,
  • Angela Agostiano,
  • Maria Lucia Curri and
  • Roberto Comparelli

25 March 2017

Photocatalytic nanomaterials such as TiO2 are receiving a great deal of attention owing to their potential applications in environmental remediation. Nonetheless, the low efficiency of this class of materials in the visible range has, so far, hampere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,149 Views
12 Pages

24 March 2017

A facile and effective growing strategy of graphite-like carbon nitride quantum dots (CNQDs) modified on ZnO nanowire array composite electrodes has been successfully designed and prepared for the first time. The remarkable quantum enhanced propertie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,657 Views
11 Pages

23 March 2017

This study assessed 3D WO3–TiO2 nanoflowers (WTNF) synthesized by a combined hydrothermal–ultrasonication–impregnation method for their applicability to the treatment of aromatic volatile compounds under visible-light illumination. The scanning elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,653 Views
14 Pages

Total Oxidation of Propane Using CeO2 and CuO-CeO2 Catalysts Prepared Using Templates of Different Nature

  • Benjamin Solsona,
  • Rut Sanchis,
  • Ana M. Dejoz,
  • Tomas García,
  • Lidia Ruiz-Rodríguez,
  • José Manuel López Nieto,
  • Juan Antonio Cecilia and
  • Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón

23 March 2017

Several CeO2 and CuO-CeO2 catalysts were prepared using different methods, i.e., a homogeneous precipitation with urea, a nanocasting route using CMK-3 carbon as a hard template and a sol–gel process using Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) polymer as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
14,636 Views
80 Pages

Eco-Friendly Physical Activation Methods for Suzuki–Miyaura Reactions

  • Katia Martina,
  • Maela Manzoli,
  • Emanuela Calcio Gaudino and
  • Giancarlo Cravotto

23 March 2017

Eco-compatible activation methods in Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions offer challenging opportunities for the design of clean and efficient synthetic processes. The main enabling technologies described in the literature are microwaves, ultraso...

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