Issue 20, 2010
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Visible-light C–heteroatom bond cleavage and detoxification of chemical warfare agents using titania-supported gold nanoparticles as photocatalyst†

Ştefan Neaţu,a   Bogdan Cojocaru,a   Vasile I. Pârvulescu,*a   Vasile Şomoghi,b   Mercedes Alvaroc  and  Hermenegildo Garcia*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical Technology and Catalysis University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, 4-12 Regina Elisabeta Bd., Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: vasile.parvulescu@g.unibuc.ro

b Research Centre for Defence NBC and Ecology, 225 Oltenitei Sos., Bucharest, Romania

c Instituto Universitario de Tecnologia Quimica CSIC-UPV, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Av. De los Naranjos s/n, Valencia, Spain
E-mail: hgarcia@qim.upv.es

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles supported on TiO2 effect the detoxification of soman and VX nerve gases and yperite vesicant agent at room temperature upon visible light illumination.

Graphical abstract: Visible-light C–heteroatom bond cleavage and detoxification of chemical warfare agents using titania-supported gold nanoparticles as photocatalyst

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0JM00345J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Feb 2010
Accepted
14 Apr 2010
First published
26 Apr 2010

J. Mater. Chem., 2010,20, 4050-4054

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Visible-light C–heteroatom bond cleavage and detoxification of chemical warfare agents using titania-supported gold nanoparticles as photocatalyst

Ş. Neaţu, B. Cojocaru, V. I. Pârvulescu, V. Şomoghi, M. Alvaro and H. Garcia, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 4050 DOI: 10.1039/C0JM00345J

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