Photocatalytic oxidation of methane over silver decorated zinc oxide nanocatalysts

Xuxing Chen, Yunpeng Li, Xiaoyang Pan, David Cortie, Xintang Huang and Zhiguo Yi ()
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Xuxing Chen: Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunpeng Li: Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyang Pan: Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Cortie: Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University
Xintang Huang: Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Central China Normal University
Zhiguo Yi: Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract The search for active catalysts that efficiently oxidize methane under ambient conditions remains a challenging task for both C1 utilization and atmospheric cleansing. Here, we show that when the particle size of zinc oxide is reduced down to the nanoscale, it exhibits high activity for methane oxidation under simulated sunlight illumination, and nano silver decoration further enhances the photo-activity via the surface plasmon resonance. The high quantum yield of 8% at wavelengths

Date: 2016
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