Mapping surface-modified titania nanoparticles with implications for activity and facet control

Yung-Kang Peng; Yichen Hu; Hung-Lung Chou; Yingyi Fu; Ivo F. Teixeira; Li Zhang; Heyong He; Shik Chi Edman Tsang

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00619-z

Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Mapping surface-modified titania nanoparticles with implications for activity and facet control

Yung-Kang Peng,
Yichen Hu,
Hung-Lung Chou,
Yingyi Fu,
Ivo F. Teixeira,
Li Zhang,
Heyong He,
Shik Chi Edman Tsang

Affiliations

Yung-Kang Peng: The Wolfson Catalysis Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Yichen Hu: Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University
Hung-Lung Chou: Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Yingyi Fu: Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University
Ivo F. Teixeira: The Wolfson Catalysis Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Li Zhang: Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University
Heyong He: Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University
Shik Chi Edman Tsang: The Wolfson Catalysis Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00619-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Metal oxide nanocrystals can be grown with different facets exposed to give variations in reactivity, but the chemical state of these surfaces is not clear. Here, the authors make use of a phosphine probe molecule allowing the differences in surface chemistry to be mapped by NMR spectroscopy.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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