TY - JOUR
T1 - A nanosized Mn oxide/boron nitride composite as a catalyst for water oxidation
AU - Najafpour, Mohammad Mahdi
AU - Madadkhani, Sepideh
AU - Tomo, Tatsuya
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, the National Elite Foundation and the Iran Science Elites Federation for financial support. The present work was financially supported by Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research (S) (No. 17726220801; T.T.), Scientific Research (C) (17K07453; T.T.). SIA was supported by grant from the Russian Science Foundation (No. 14-14-00039). We thank the ImageJ group (W. S. Rasband, ImageJ, U. S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/, 1997–2016) for the software for providing colored SEM or TEM images.
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© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Herein, a nanosized Mn oxide/boron nitride composite is reported as a catalyst for water oxidation. This study is interesting because nanosized boron nitride is one of the most stable and inert compounds and can form a new composite with Mn oxides. The composite was synthesized using a straightforward and simple procedure and characterized, showing that the composite is a supported Mn(iii,iv) oxide on boron nitride. The water-oxidizing activity of the composite was studied in the presence of cerium(iv) ammonium nitrate and photoproduced Ru(bpy)33+ as oxidants. The optimized catalyst calcined at 200-300 °C showed a turnover frequency of 0.15 (mmolO2/s-1 molMn-1) in the presence of cerium(iv) ammonium nitrate.
AB - Herein, a nanosized Mn oxide/boron nitride composite is reported as a catalyst for water oxidation. This study is interesting because nanosized boron nitride is one of the most stable and inert compounds and can form a new composite with Mn oxides. The composite was synthesized using a straightforward and simple procedure and characterized, showing that the composite is a supported Mn(iii,iv) oxide on boron nitride. The water-oxidizing activity of the composite was studied in the presence of cerium(iv) ammonium nitrate and photoproduced Ru(bpy)33+ as oxidants. The optimized catalyst calcined at 200-300 °C showed a turnover frequency of 0.15 (mmolO2/s-1 molMn-1) in the presence of cerium(iv) ammonium nitrate.
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U2 - 10.1039/c7nj00049a
DO - 10.1039/c7nj00049a
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029958034
SN - 1144-0546
VL - 41
SP - 10627
EP - 10633
JO - New Journal of Chemistry
JF - New Journal of Chemistry
IS - 19
ER -