TiO2 ternary-modified with Fe3+, Ni2+, and Au nanoparticles exhibited a noticeable photocatalytic activity for selective cyclohexane oxidation with O2 under sunlight irradiation.
Ternary modified TiO2 as a simple and efficient photocatalyst for green organic synthesis
Yusuke Ide,*a Naoyuki Kawamoto,a Yoshio Bando,a Hideya Hattori,b Masahiro Sadakaneb and Tsuneji Sanob
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Corresponding authors
a
World Premier International (WPI) Research Center, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
E-mail: IDE.Yusuke@nims.go.jp ;
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Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3652-3654
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41174E
Received 13 Feb 2013, Accepted 15 Mar 2013
First published online 15 Mar 2013