Surface Decoration of Pt Nanoparticles via ALD with TiO Protective Layer on Polymeric Nanofibers as Flexible and Reusable Heterogeneous Nanocatalysts.

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Institute of Materials Science & Nanotechnology and UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06800, Turkey.

Published: October 2017

Coupling the functional nanoheterostructures over the flexible polymeric nanofibrous membranes through electrospinning followed by the atomic layer deposition (ALD), here we presented a high surface area platform as flexible and reusable heterogeneous nanocatalysts. Here, we show the ALD of titanium dioxide (TiO) protective nanolayer onto the electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous web and then platinum nanoparticles (Pt-NP) decoration was performed by ALD onto TiO coated PAN nanofibers. The free-standing and flexible Pt-NP/TiO-PAN nanofibrous web showed the enhancive reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) to 4-aminophenol (4-AP) within 45 seconds though the hydrogenation process with the degradation rate of 0.1102 s. The TiO protective layer on the PAN polymeric nanofibers was presented as an effective route to enhance the attachment of Pt-NP and to improve the structure stability of polymeric nanofibrous substrate. Commendable enhancement in the catalytic activity with the catalytic dosage and the durability after the reusing cycles were investigated over the reduction of 4-NP. Even after multiple usage, the Pt-NP/TiO-PAN nanofibrous webs were stable with the flexible nature with the presence of Pt and TiO on its surface.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645354PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13805-2DOI Listing

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