Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (9): 1480-1485.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(11)60415-4

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Thermal Stability of Gold Catalyst Supported on Mesoporous Titania Nanofibers

MA Xuanxuan1, ZHU Yinhua2, LI Licheng1, WANG Changsong1, LU Xiaohua1, YANG Zhuhong1,*   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, China; 2Technology Research Institute, Jiangsu Hualan New Pharmaceutical Material Co. Ltd., Wuxi 214443, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2012-03-30 Revised:2012-05-26 Online:2012-09-11 Published:2012-09-11

Abstract: By deposition-precipitation with urea method, gold was loaded on mesoporous TiO2 whisker, which was prepared from a potassium titanate whisker precursor through solid phase sintering process. The morphology and structure of these as-prepared catalysts were characterized by N2 adsorption-desorption, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy. The reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol by NaBH4 was evaluated as a probe reaction. After calcination at high temperature, the activity of the catalysts supported on mesoporous TiO2 nanofiber was well maintained, and the particle size of gold nanoparticles was hardly changed. This might be attributed to the peculiar crystallographic structure and mesoporous nanoarchitecture of the mesoporous TiO2 whisker.

Key words: nanogold, thermal stability, mesoporous titania, bicrystal, p-nitrophenol, reduction