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SN APPLIED SCIENCES
卷 1, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1613-y
关键词
Core-shell; Cerium oxide; Silicon oxide; Environmentally friendly procedure; Catalytic reduction
The present work investigates the parameters for the successful coating of silicon oxide nanoparticles surface with a homogeneous cerium oxide shell in an effort to develop core-shell nanostructures. For this, spherical silica nanoparticles (similar to 300 nm) were developed by a biomimetic approach and their coating with ceria was performed through a precipitation method. Several processing conditions, such as the precipitation pH, the cerium precursor concentration and the treatment of silica cores (i.e., their use either as-received after their biomimetic formation, or after their calcination followed by surface modification), were examined and optimized. The as-obtained powder material was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, N-2 adsorption and UV-Vis reflectance spectroscopy. The analysis revealed the formation of spherical core-shell nanostructures bearing a uniform shell layer of crystalline cerium oxide around each silica core which after calcination at 600 degrees C was comprised of cubic CeO2 nanocrystals with sizes ranging between 2 and 6 nm. The material with the optimum core-shell structure and pure cerium dioxide were studied in terms of their catalytic reduction activity over 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol.
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