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Inside Cover: Bioinspired Hierarchical Nanotubular Titania Immobilized with Platinum Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production (Chem. Eur. J. 20/2015)
Author(s) -
Liu Xiaoyan,
Li Jiao,
Zhang Yiming,
Huang Jianguo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201590083
Subject(s) - platinum , photocatalysis , hydrogen production , nanocomposite , platinum nanoparticles , materials science , catalysis , cellulose , nanoparticle , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , hydrogen , water splitting , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering
Serious concern about fossil fuel depletion has made production of hydrogen by new approaches increasing more appealing. In their Communication on page 7345 ff. , J. Huang et al. describe the construction of a bioinspired nanocomposite composed of platinum nanoparticles and nanotubular titania, in which the titania matter was templated by natural cellulose substance. This photocatalytically stabile nanocomposite with 1.06 wt % of platinum content shows the optimal photocatalytic hydrogen production activity from water splitting of 16.44 mmol h −1 g −1 .