Novel Nano-Heterojunctions with Enhanced Catalytic Activity
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanostructured Catalysts".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 968
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced oxidation proces, nanotechnology, carbon dioxide reduction, photoelectric water decomposition for hydrogen production; recycling/reuse catalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Catalysts is launching a new Special Issue entitled “Novel Nano-Heterojunctions with Enhanced Catalytic Activity”. In the past few decades, nano heterojunction materials, including but not limited to type I heterojunction, type II heterojunction, S-scheme heterojunction, Z-scheme heterojunction, p-n heterojunction, Schottky heterojunction, etc., have attracted great interest in the fields of energy conversion and storage, environmental remediation and catalytic fields because of their striking properties. Although the application of various nano heterojunction materials in the catalytic field has been reported, there are still many challenges to be considered develop catalytic materials with high stability, high efficiency and selectivity.
We are very pleased to invite you to submit your manuscript to the Special Issue “Novel Nano-heterojunctions with Enhanced Catalytic Activity” to share the basic and applied research of environmental catalysis related to innovative methods, characterization and mechanism research. The topics covered by this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):
- Advanced oxidation process;
- Biocatalysis;
- Nanotechnology;
- Carbon dioxide reduction;
- Photoelectric water decomposition for hydrogen production;
- Recycling/reuse catalysis.
We welcome authors to submit original contributions to our Special Issue in the form of research articles, opinion articles, review articles and short communications.
Dr. Yongfang Yang
Dr. Kai Ge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heterojunction
- photocatalysis
- nanomaterials
- clean energy
- advanced oxidation process
- biocatalysis
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol by palladium enhanced coal fly ash
Authors: Hao Zhang; Huajun Xu; Man Xie; Pengfei Sun; Xiaoping Dong
Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
Abstract: The presence of fly ash as a form of solid waste poses detrimental effects on the environment, thus necessitating effective means to enhance its value through reuse. Herein, treatment of CFA with hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide substantially enhanced the physicochemical characteristics of CFA. Sequential introduction of Pd(II) precursor and sodium borohydride into the suspension led to the formation of palladium nanoparticles (Pd-CFA) on the surface of CFA. The catalytic reduction activity was examined for p-nitrophenol (p-NP) using this palladium-loaded fly ash, wherein experimental results evinced that the presence of palladium nanoparticles significantly augmented the catalytic reduction efficacy.T he physicochemical properties, reaction process parameters and reaction mechanism of the catalyst will be clearly investigated.
