What is it about?
Titanium dioxide nanomaterials are very important for technological applications but the structure of TiO2 facets is still unknown at the molecular level. Here we obtain this key information by elucidating the behaviour and reactivity of carbon monoxide and hydrogen peroxide on different types of TiO2 nanoparticles.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
We showed that TiO2 anatase nanoparticles with truncated bipyramidal shape can be usefully employed as a model system for the investigation of the IR spectra of adsorbed carbon monoxide. This allows for an unambiguous assignment of the bands of CO in the much more difficult case of the widespread titania catalyst TiO2-P25, which is in form of nanopowders. Additionally, for the first time we uncovered the role of thermal and chemical disorder in determining the stretching frequency of adsorbed probe molecules.
Perspectives
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Shape-controlled TiO2nanoparticles and TiO2P25 interacting with CO and H2O2molecular probes: a synergic approach for surface structure recognition and physico-chemical understanding, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp42381b.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Catalytic sites on TiO2 nanoparticles and carbon monoxide adsorption
General and important aspects of the binding of carbon monoxide to titianium dioxide anatase nanoparticles are revealed by FTIR spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations.
Academia.edu
our article page at Academia: article text
Researchgate
our article page in Researchgate (full text, supplementary data)
Full Paper - Open Access
Author version of this paper (Just Accepted Manuscript). Fully open access.
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page