Pristine simple oxides as visible light driven photocatalysts: highly efficient decomposition of organic compounds over platinum-loaded tungsten oxide.
Tungsten oxide loaded with nanoparticulate platinum is demonstrated to exhibit high activity for the decomposition of organic compounds both in liquid and gas phases; the activity was almost comparable to that of TiO2 under UV light irradiation and much higher than that of nitrogen-doped TiO2 under visible irradiation.
Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan. ryu-abe@cat.hokudai.ac.jp
Ryu
R
Abe
Hitoshi
H
Takami
Naoya
N
Murakami
Bunsho
B
Ohtani