Ethers as Oxygen Donor and Carbon Source in Non-hydrolytic Sol-Gel: One-Pot, Atom-Economic Synthesis of Mesoporous TiO2 -Carbon Nanocomposites

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (19) ◽  
pp. 4982-4990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Manuel Escamilla-Pérez ◽  
Nicolas Louvain ◽  
Bruno Boury ◽  
Nicolas Brun ◽  
P. Hubert Mutin
RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (57) ◽  
pp. 32558-32564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghoon Kim ◽  
Johan G. Alauzun ◽  
Nicolas Louvain ◽  
Nicolas Brun ◽  
Lorenzo Stievano ◽  
...  

We report here a simple process for the synthesis of Li4Ti5O12(LTO)/carbon nanocomposites by a one-pot method using an alginic acid aquagel as a template and carbon source, and lithium acetate and TiO2 nanoparticles as precursors to the LTO phase.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin Smeets ◽  
Ludivine van den Biggelaar ◽  
Tarek Barakat ◽  
Eric M. Gaigneaux ◽  
Damien Debecker

Self-standing macrocellular titanosilicate monolith foams are obtained using a one-pot sol-gel route and show excellent performance in the epoxidation of cyclohexene. Thanks to the High Internal Phase Emulsion (HIPE) templating method, the materials feature a high void fraction, a hierarchically porous texture and good mechanical strength. Highly dispersed Ti species can be incorporated in tetrahedral coordination the silica matrix. These characteristics allow the obtained ‘SiTi(HIPE)’ materials to reach high catalytic turnover in the epoxidation of cyclohexene. The monoliths can advantageously be used to run the reaction in continuous flow mode.<br>


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 10160-10168
Author(s):  
Zhongzhe Wei ◽  
Zijiang Zhao ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Qiang Zhou ◽  
Chenxia Zhao ◽  
...  

Ru nanoparticles/oxygen-deficient TiO2@carbon nanocomposites are efficiently fabricated via one-pot pyrolysis. TiO2-VO and carbon narrow the band gap, optimize ΔGH2O and ΔGH* and synergistically boost the activity of Ru for the alkaline HER.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (73) ◽  
pp. 68739-68747 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Skoda ◽  
Ales Styskalik ◽  
Zdenek Moravec ◽  
Petr Bezdicka ◽  
Jiri Bursik ◽  
...  

A novel non-hydrolytic sol–gel (NHSG) synthesis of mesoporous tin silicate xerogels is presented.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 678
Author(s):  
Zhongkai Wu ◽  
Haifu Huang ◽  
Wenhui Xiong ◽  
Shiming Yang ◽  
Huanhuan Huang ◽  
...  

We report a novel Ni3S2 carbon coated (denoted as NCC) rod-like structure prepared by a facile one-pot hydrothermal method and employ it as a binder free electrode in supercapacitor. We coated carbon with glucose as carbon source on the surface of samples and investigated the suitable glucose concentration. The as-obtained NCC rod-like structure demonstrated great performance with a huge specific capacity of 657 C g−1 at 1 A g−1, preeminent rate capability of 87.7% retention, the current density varying to 10 A g−1, and great cycling stability of 76.7% of its original value through 3500 cycles, which is superior to the properties of bare Ni3S2. The result presents a facile, general, viable strategy to constructing a high-performance material for the supercapacitor applications.


2013 ◽  
Vol 745-746 ◽  
pp. 673-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hui Jiang ◽  
Zhi Fang Xu ◽  
Jian Min Liu ◽  
Qing Xia Zhu ◽  
Quan Zhang

Aluminum titanate (Al2TiO5) powder has been synthesized at low temperature via nonhydrolytic sol-gel method by using aluminum powder as aluminum source, titanium tetrachloride as titanium source, anhydrous ethanol as oxygen donor with different catalysts. The phase transformation of aluminum titanate xerogel powder during heat treatment and the influence of the mixing orders of raw materials, catalyst kinds on the synthesis of aluminum titanate were investigated by means of differential-thermal analysis (DTA-TG), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM). The results indicated that aluminum titanate powder was easily synthesized at 750 °C by using AlCl3 as catalyst with a mixing order of adding TiCl4 before AlCl3 into aluminum alcohol mixture. The catalytic order of the different catalysts in the preparation process of aluminum titanate is: FeCl3> AlCl3> MgCl2. The catalyst promoted the activation of metal aluminum powder and played a major role in the synthesis of aluminum titanate powder at low temperature via nonhydrolytic sol-gel method.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Enrico Paradisi ◽  
Roberto Rosa ◽  
Giovanni Baldi ◽  
Valentina Dami ◽  
Andrea Cioni ◽  
...  

A new method for fast and simple synthesis of crystalline TiO2 nanoparticles with photocatalytic activity was developed by carrying out a classic sol–gel reaction directly under vacuum. The use of microwaves for fast heating of the reaction medium further reduces synthesis times. When the solvent is completely removed by vacuum, the product is obtained in the form of a powder that can be easily redispersed in water to yield a stable nanoparticle suspension, exhibiting a comparable photocatalytic activity with respect to a commercial product. The present methodology can, therefore, be considered a process intensification procedure for the production of nanotitania.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.S.N. Ghosh ◽  
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S. Gayathri ◽  
D. Alagarasan ◽  
K.V.P. Kumar ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Canggih Setya Budi ◽  
Indriana Kartini ◽  
Bambang Rusdiarso

Mesoporous titania powders with high-order crystalline building blocks had been synthesized through the sol-gel process using potato starch gel template. Internal spongelike pore structure of starch gel template was generated by heating the starch granules at 95 °C in water solution and freezing the starch gel at -15 °C. The synthesis routes were performed by immersing the starch gel template for 4 days into the white colloidal solution of TiO2 nanoparticles, which were prepared by hydrolyzing titanium (IV) tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) in ethanol at pH 1. Mesoporous TiO2 powders were obtained by two different ways of template removal, performed by calcination of the TiO2-starch composites at 600 °C for 4 h or combination of extraction with ethanol-HCl (2:1) at 80 °C and calcination at 500 °C for 4 h. Fourier Transform Infra Red (FT-IR) spectra shows both of template removal methods result in decreasing of characteristic vibrational band of the starch hydrocarbon on the resulted TiO2 powders. The X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) pattern imply that the concentrations of starch gel template influence the anatase crystallite peaks intensity of the synthesized TiO2 powders. TiO2 templated by 20% of starch sponges gel has highest intensity of anatase crystallite. Scherrer calculation inidicated that anatase particle size has nanoscale dimmension up to 12.96 nm. The nano-architecture feature of mesoporous TiO2 scaffolds was also evaluated by the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). It is shown that mesoporous TiO2 framework consist of nanocrystalline TiO2 particles as buiding blocks. The N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm curves assign that TiO2 powder resulted from extraction-calcination route has higher mesoporosity than that of only calcinated. The synthesized mesoporous TiO2 powder exhibits high Brunauer-Emmet-Teller (BET) specific surface area up to 65.65 m2/g.   Keywords: mesoporous TiO2, potato starch, template


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