Abstract

Herein, we report a facile synthesis method for highly ordered hexagonal P6m mesoporous palladium doped titania nanoarchitectures using the F127 triblock copolymer as a template. The mesoporous Pd/TiO2 nanoarchitectures possess high surface areas of 223 m2g−1 and large pore volumes of 0.42 cm3g−1 at 300 °C that are reduced to 162 m2g−1 and 0.29 cm3g−1, respectively, as a result of calcination at 450 °C with their tunable mesopore diameter ranging from 5.7 to 8.3 nm. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) measurements evince that the framework of the highly crystalline mesoporous Pd/TiO2 is composed of aligned anatase phase grown along the [101] direction. The Pd nanoparticles are well dispersed and exhibit sizes of about 20 nm and they are separated by 1.95 A, which agrees with the (200) lattice spacing of face-centered cubic Pd. The newly prepared photocatalysts have been compared with Pd photodeposited onto the commercial photocatalyst Sachtleben Hombikat UV-100 by the determination of the rate of HCHO ...

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