Supported silver nanoparticles as photocatalysts under ultraviolet and visible light irradiation

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Title: Supported silver nanoparticles as photocatalysts under ultraviolet and visible light irradiation
Author(s): Chen, Xi; Zheng, Zhanfeng; Ke, Xuebin; Jaatinen, Esa; Xie, Tengfeng; Wang, Dejun; Guo, Cheng; Zhao, Jincai; Zhu, Huaiyong
Abstract: The significant activity for dye degradation by silver nanoparticles (NPs) on oxide supports was better than popular semiconductor photocatalysts. Moreover, silver photocatalysts can degrade phenol and drive oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde under ultraviolet light. We suggest that surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect and interband transition of silver NPs can activate organic molecules for oxidation under ultraviolet and visible light irradiation.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Green Chemistry, Vol. 12, no. 3 (Mar 2010), pp. 414-419
Publication year: 2010
FOR Code(s): 03 Chemical Sciences
Keyword(s): Nanoparticles; Photo-catalytic; Silver nanoparticles; Ultraviolet lights
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN: 1463-9262
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b921696k
Peer reviewed