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Li Fu1,2, Wen Cai3, Aiwu Wang3, Yuhong Zheng1. Materials Letters, Volume 142, 2015, Pages 201-203.
[expand title=”Show Affiliations”]- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Botanical Garden, Mem. Sun Yat-Sen, Nanjing 210014 P. R. China
- Golden Yuanta Construction Engineering Co., Ltd, Zhejiang 311200, P. R. China
- Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, 88 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong P. R. China
Abstract
We have developed a new synthesis method to prepare tungsten oxide-silver hybrid nanowires (WO3-Ag NWs) for photocatalytic hydrogenation of nitrobenzene (NB) to aniline. The catalyst was characterized by SEM, XRD, N2 adsorption/desorption and Raman spectroscopy. Results showed that the tungsten oxide-silver hybrid nanowires displays a porous network structure with high specific surface area. The synergy of Ag NWs and tungsten oxide-silver hybrid nanowires plays the most vital role in this enhanced photocatalytic performance. Moreover, the synthesized tungsten oxide-silver hybrid nanowires also exhibited excellent reusability.
