Metal-free catalytic ozonation on surface-engineered graphene: Microwave reduction and heteroatom doping

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Chemical Engineering Journal

Publisher

Elsevier BV

School

School of Engineering

RAS ID

30573

Funders

Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality
China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists
National Natural Science Foundation of China

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Wang, Y., Cao, H., Chen, C., Xie, Y., Sun, H., Duan, X., & Wang, S. (2019). Metal-free catalytic ozonation on surface-engineered graphene: Microwave reduction and heteroatom doping. Chemical Engineering Journal, 355, 118-129.

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Abstract

N-doped graphene has demonstrated exceptional activities in versatile metal-free catalytic processes. In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and N-doped rGO were synthesized by a facile approach via microwave reduction with a low energy input and short reaction time. The activities of the derived carbocatalysts were evaluated by catalytic ozonation of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). Compared with thermally annealed rGOs in argon atmosphere, microwave treated rGO demonstrated a better performance in catalytic oxidation, and N-doping would further improve the catalytic activity. It is discovered that microwave irradiation not only gave rise to more edging sites and dangling bonds in rGO, making higher catalytic potentials for ozone decomposition than that from thermal annealing, but also resulted in a higher concentration of N dopants. XPS studies revealed that more graphitic N species were incorporated into the carbon basal plane during the microwave reduction processes. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) in 4-NP oxidation were evaluated and identified by liquid-phase electron spin resonance (ESR) and radical scavenging tests, which indicated the generation of O2, OH and 1O2 for 4-NP degradation. This study provides a facile protocol for fabricating advanced nanocarbon materials for green oxidation and enables new insights in catalytic ozonation with state-of-the-art carbocatalysis.

DOI

10.1016/j.cej.2018.08.134

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