Cu and Cu-Based Nanoparticles: Applications in Catalysis
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019) | Viewed by 27429
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Interests: environmental protection and pollution mitigation; photocatalysis; advanced oxidation processes; solar chemical processes; hydrogen production
Interests: solar photocatalysis; green chemistry; hydrogen solar production; advanced oxidation processes; kinetic modelling
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Dear Colleagues,
Nanoscience has recently attracted increased attention due to its potential to provide sound solutions to a number of technological and environmental issues in the areas of chemical manufacturing, biological applications, energy conversion and storage, and water treatment.
Metal nanoparticles exhibit improved optical, electronic, magnetic, chemical, and biological properties when compared to their bulk correspondents. Due to their high specific surface areas, such particles are of particular interest for research in catalysts with enhanced activity and selectivity. The design and the development of techniques to synthesize metal nanoparticles with tunable size, shape, composition, crystallinity, and structure are, therefore, gaining growing attention.
Copper is an earth-abundant and inexpensive metal with high electrical and thermal conductivity, high corrosion resistance, good ductility, malleability, and tensile strength. Due to such properties, copper based nanomaterials can effectively replace rare and expensive noble-metal catalysts commonly employed in commercial chemical processes. Copper-based nanocatalysts have a number of applications, including gas-phase reactions, Ulmann reactions, cross-coupling reactions, A3-coupling reactions, azide-alkyne cycloaddition, photocatalysis, and electrocatalysis.
However, synthesis and use of nanosized copper particles are still challenging due to the high tendency for oxidation of copper under atmospheric conditions. As oxides are thermodynamically more stable, surface oxide layers inevitably form on copper nanoparticles and limit their use.
Copper-based nanoparticles with complex structures (i.e., core/shell) and catalysts based on copper oxides have been recently adopted in order to overcome the instability of copper nanoparticles in the presence of oxygen, water, and several chemical species. Alternatively, copper nanoparticles have been fixed on selected supports, such as metal oxides, SiO2, carbon-based materials, or polymers. At present, the main challenge in the design and synthesis of copper-based nanocatalysts is to develop highly stable, active, selective, and low cost materials.
This Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences “Cu and Cu-Based Nanoparticles: Applications in Catalysis” aims to cover recent advances in the development of copper-based nanosized particles for different catalytic applications.
Dr. Laura Clarizia
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Marotta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Copper nanosized catalyst
- Copper-based nanophotocatalysts
- Copper oxides
- Metallic copper
- Hybrid copper nanostructures
- Carbon-supported copper nanoparticles
- Metal-supported copper nanoparticles
- Polymer-supported copper nanoparticles
- Silica-supported copper nanoparticles
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