Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 255, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.117773
Keywords
Alcohol photoreforming; Photocatalysis; Plasmonic photocatalyst; Zeolite nanosheets
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 106-2113-M-007-025-MY3, MOST 107-3017-F-007-002]
- Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan
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A nanocomposite comprising gold nanodisks (Au NDs) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanophases sandwiched between zeolite nanosheets was fabricated for hydrogen production by plasmonic photocatalytic reforming of methanol. The inter-sheet space between zeolite nanosheets served as nanoconfinement for forming the edge-attached domains of Au NDs/TiO2. Benefiting from the anisotropic shape of Au NDs and their edge attachment with TiO2, the nanocomposite exhibited superior photoactivity for visible light ( > 400 nm)-driven photo-reforming of methanol and the hydrogen production rate was (similar to)24 times higher than that of the benchmark Au@P25 photocatalyst. Moreover, experimental results suggest that zeolite nanosheets effectively gated the access to the surface of Au NDs and allowed only methanol but not higher alcohols to react to produce hydrogen. Gradual deactivation was observed during methanol photoreforming, a phenomenon shown to be attributed to the chemisorbed CO accumulated on Au in the absence of oxygen.
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