A one-pot synthesis of a monolithic Cu 2 O/Cu catalyst for efficient ozone decomposition.
Mohammad Ghasem RahimiAnqi WangGuojun MaNing HanYunfa ChenPublished in: RSC advances (2020)
Nowadays, it is necessary and challenging to prepare monolithic catalysts, which are ready for use, preventing the tedious and complicated integration procedure of the powder materials onto a porous substrate. Herein, Cu 2 O nanoparticles are successfully synthesized onto a porous Cu foam in one pot via the surface oxidation, coordination and precipitation reactions in a NH 4 OH and HCl solution, and the optimum synthesis conditions are a NH 3 : HCl ratio of 1 : 0.9, oxidation temperature of 80 °C and time of 18 h. The obtained Cu 2 O/Cu catalyst (mostly <100 nm) shows a highly active O 3 decomposition performance with >98% and >80% conversion efficiency in dry and 90% relative humidity air for >10 h at an O 3 concentration of 20 ppm and a gas hourly space velocity of 12 500 h -1 . The high efficiency can be attributed to the porous Cu foam providing a large contact area, abundant crystal defects in the nanometer-sized Cu 2 O materials serving as the active sites, and also to the Schottky barrier formed in the Cu 2 O/Cu interface facilitating the electron transfer for O 3 degradation. All these results show the potency of the easily fabricated monolithic Cu 2 O/Cu catalyst for the highly efficient O 3 contaminant removal.
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