{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Rahimi MG"],"funding":["National Basic Research Program of China","Chinese Academy of Sciences"],"pagination":["40916-40922"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9057785"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(67)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Nowadays, it is necessary and challenging to prepare monolithic catalysts, which are ready for use, preventing the tedious and complicated integration procedure of the powder materials onto a porous substrate. Herein, Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanoparticles are successfully synthesized onto a porous Cu foam in one pot <i>via</i> the surface oxidation, coordination and precipitation reactions in a NH<sub>4</sub>OH and HCl solution, and the optimum synthesis conditions are a NH<sub>3</sub> : HCl ratio of 1 : 0.9, oxidation temperature of 80 °C and time of 18 h. The obtained Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu catalyst (mostly <100 nm) shows a highly active O<sub>3</sub> decomposition performance with >98% and >80% conversion efficiency in dry and 90% relative humidity air for >10 h at an O<sub>3</sub> concentration of 20 ppm and a gas hourly space velocity of 12 500 h<sup>-1</sup>. The high efficiency can be attributed to the porous Cu foam providing a large contact area, abundant crystal defects in the nanometer-sized Cu<sub>2</sub>O materials serving as the active sites, and also to the Schottky barrier formed in the Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu interface facilitating the electron transfer for O<sub>3</sub> degradation. All these results show the potency of the easily fabricated monolithic Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu catalyst for the highly efficient O<sub>3</sub> contaminant removal."],"journal":["RSC advances"],"pubmed_title":["A one-pot synthesis of a monolithic Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu catalyst for efficient ozone decomposition."],"pmcid":["PMC9057785"],"funding_grant_id":["XDB05050400","2016YFC0207100"],"pubmed_authors":["Wang A","Han N","Chen Y","Rahimi MG","Ma G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A one-pot synthesis of a monolithic Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu catalyst for efficient ozone decomposition.","description":"Nowadays, it is necessary and challenging to prepare monolithic catalysts, which are ready for use, preventing the tedious and complicated integration procedure of the powder materials onto a porous substrate. Herein, Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanoparticles are successfully synthesized onto a porous Cu foam in one pot <i>via</i> the surface oxidation, coordination and precipitation reactions in a NH<sub>4</sub>OH and HCl solution, and the optimum synthesis conditions are a NH<sub>3</sub> : HCl ratio of 1 : 0.9, oxidation temperature of 80 °C and time of 18 h. The obtained Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu catalyst (mostly <100 nm) shows a highly active O<sub>3</sub> decomposition performance with >98% and >80% conversion efficiency in dry and 90% relative humidity air for >10 h at an O<sub>3</sub> concentration of 20 ppm and a gas hourly space velocity of 12 500 h<sup>-1</sup>. The high efficiency can be attributed to the porous Cu foam providing a large contact area, abundant crystal defects in the nanometer-sized Cu<sub>2</sub>O materials serving as the active sites, and also to the Schottky barrier formed in the Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu interface facilitating the electron transfer for O<sub>3</sub> degradation. All these results show the potency of the easily fabricated monolithic Cu<sub>2</sub>O/Cu catalyst for the highly efficient O<sub>3</sub> contaminant removal.","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T20:21:57.597Z","creation":"2025-04-04T20:21:57.597Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9057785","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35519179"],"doi":["10.1039/d0ra05157h"]}}