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Photocatalytic oxidation of methane over silver decorated zinc oxide nanocatalysts

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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
    Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Central China Normal University)

  • 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)

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

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  • Xuxing Chen & Yunpeng Li & Xiaoyang Pan & David Cortie & Xintang Huang & Zhiguo Yi, 2016. "Photocatalytic oxidation of methane over silver decorated zinc oxide nanocatalysts," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-8, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms12273
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12273
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