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A highly durable catalyst based on CoxMn3–xO4 nanosheets for low-temperature formaldehyde oxidation

Show Author's Information Yongchao Huang1,§,  Kaihang Ye2,§,  Haibo Li1,  Wenjie Fan1,  Fengyi Zhao1,  Yuanming Zhang2( ),  Hongbing Ji1( )
MOE of the Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic ChemistryKLGHEI of Environment and Energy ChemistryThe Key Lab of Low-carbon Chemistry and Energy Conservation of Guangdong ProvinceSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringSun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou510275China
Country Department of ChemistryJinan UniversityGuangzhou510632China

§ These authors contributed equally to this work.

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mechanism, formaldehyde, CoxMn3–xO4 nanosheet, catalytic oxidation
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Huang Y, Ye K, Li H, et al. A highly durable catalyst based on CoxMn3–xO4 nanosheets for low-temperature formaldehyde oxidation. Nano Research, 2016, 9(12): 3881-3892. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1257-9
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Cost-effective catalysts for the oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are critical to energy conversion applications and environmental protection. The main bottleneck of this process is the development of an efficient, stable, and cost-effective catalyst that can oxidize HCHO at low temperature. Here, an advanced material consisting of manganese cobalt oxide nanosheet arrays uniformly covered on a carbon textile is successfully fabricated by a simple anodic electrodeposition method combined with post annealing treatment, and can be directly applied as a high-performance catalytic material for HCHO elimination. Benefiting from the increased surface oxygen species and improved redox properties, the as-prepared manganese cobalt oxide nanosheets showed substantially higher catalytic activity for HCHO oxidation. The catalyst completely converted HCHO to CO2 at temperatures as low as 100 ℃, and exhibited excellent catalytic stability. Such impressive results are rarely achieved by non-precious metal-based catalysts at such low temperatures.


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A highly durable catalyst based on CoxMn3–xO4 nanosheets for low-temperature formaldehyde oxidation

Show Author's information Yongchao Huang1,§, Kaihang Ye2,§, Haibo Li1, Wenjie Fan1, Fengyi Zhao1, Yuanming Zhang2( ), Hongbing Ji1( )
MOE of the Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic ChemistryKLGHEI of Environment and Energy ChemistryThe Key Lab of Low-carbon Chemistry and Energy Conservation of Guangdong ProvinceSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringSun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou510275China
Country Department of ChemistryJinan UniversityGuangzhou510632China

§ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Cost-effective catalysts for the oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are critical to energy conversion applications and environmental protection. The main bottleneck of this process is the development of an efficient, stable, and cost-effective catalyst that can oxidize HCHO at low temperature. Here, an advanced material consisting of manganese cobalt oxide nanosheet arrays uniformly covered on a carbon textile is successfully fabricated by a simple anodic electrodeposition method combined with post annealing treatment, and can be directly applied as a high-performance catalytic material for HCHO elimination. Benefiting from the increased surface oxygen species and improved redox properties, the as-prepared manganese cobalt oxide nanosheets showed substantially higher catalytic activity for HCHO oxidation. The catalyst completely converted HCHO to CO2 at temperatures as low as 100 ℃, and exhibited excellent catalytic stability. Such impressive results are rarely achieved by non-precious metal-based catalysts at such low temperatures.

Keywords: mechanism, formaldehyde, CoxMn3–xO4 nanosheet, catalytic oxidation

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Received: 14 June 2016
Revised: 27 July 2016
Accepted: 21 August 2016
Published: 14 September 2016
Issue date: December 2016

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This work was preliminarily supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21425627 and 21276104) and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Nos. 21425627).

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