Generalized and high temperature synthesis of a series of crystalline mesoporous metal oxides based nanocomposites with enhanced catalytic activities for benzene combustion
- 21 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- Vol. 1 (12), 4089-4096
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ta01505j
Abstract
We report here a generalized synthesis of various crystalline mesoporous metal oxides including CeO2, Cr2O3, Fe2O3, SnO2, Ce0.5Zr0.5O2, TiO2, Al2O3 and ZrO2 from the self-assembly of a basic poly 4-vinylpyridine (P4VP) template with various metal precursors based on their strong acid–base interaction under high temperature (180 °C) hydrothermal conditions. Using the typically crystalline mesoporous metal oxide of CeO2, after removing the template by calcination at 550 °C and loading with various transition metal oxides such as MnOx, various transition metal oxide functionalized crystalline mesoporous CeO2 (MnOx/P4VP–CeO2) were obtained. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns show that the resulting mesoporous metal oxides exhibit a high degree of crystallinity, and the transition metal oxides active sites have been successfully loaded into these samples. N2 sorption–desorption isotherms, SEM images show that the resulting crystalline mesoporous metal oxides, such as CeO2, have a large BET surface area (94 m2 g−1) and abundant mesopores, which exhibit monolithic morphology with crystal sizes ranging from 5 to 15 μm, giving a uniform pore size centered at 5 nm. XPS spectra show that the active sites such as MnOx exhibit the phases of MnO2 and Mn2O3 in P4VP–CeO2. H2-TPR curves show that MnOx/P4VP–CeO2 exhibits decreased reductive temperatures of both active sites of the MnOx and P4VP–CeO2 supporter when compared with the samples reported previously. More importantly, MnOx/P4VP–CeO2 exhibits much better catalytic activities and good recyclability for catalyzing the oxidation of benzene than that of MnOx loaded commercially crystalline CeO2, which will be very important for their wide applications for VOCs removal in industry.Keywords
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