Nanoengineering materials for plasmonic photocatalytic applications

• Grant number: 17/05506-0
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): November 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): February 24, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Henrique Cury Camargo
• Grantee: Ivo Freitas Teixeira
• Home Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/26308-7 - Optimization of the physicochemical properties of nano -structured materials for applications in molecular recognition, catalysis and energy conversion/storage, AP.TEM

Abstract

The use of solar energy to promote catalytic reactions is essential to make our economy more sustainable and greener, however, the vast majority of photocatalysts have activity limited to the UV region and therefore are not very efficient when excited by the solar spectrum. In this context, this project is focused on develop plasmonic photocatalysts active by visible light to promote organic reactions. The influence of doped nanoparticles, with shape and controlled sizes, and the support of these metallic nanoparticles on modified carbon nitrides will be investigated on plasmonic catalysis. Thus, it is intended to obtain a variety of photocatalysts, active by visible light and versatile, suitable to perform different types of reactions.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

TEIXEIRA, IVO F.; QUIROZ, JHON; HOMSI, MAURICIO S.; CAMARGO, PEDRO H. C. An Overview of the Photocatalytic H-2 Evolution by Semiconductor-Based Materials for Nonspecialists. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, v. 31, n. 2, p. 211-229, FEB 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

SILVA, INGRID F.; TEIXEIRA, IVO F.; BARROS, WDESON P.; PINHEIRO, CARLOS B.; ARDISSON, JOSE D.; DO NASCIMENTO, GUSTAVO M.; PRADIE, NORIBERTO A.; TEIXEIRA, ANA PAULA C.; STUMPF, HUMBERTO O. An Fe-III dinuclear metallacycle complex as a size-selective adsorbent for nitrogenous compounds and a potentially effective ammonia storage material. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, v. 7, n. 25, p. 15225-15232, JUL 7 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

TEIXEIRA, IVO F.; BARBOSA, EDUARDO C. M.; TSANG, SHIK CHI EDMAN; CAMARGO, PEDRO H. C. Carbon nitrides and metal nanoparticles: from controlled synthesis to design principles for improved photocatalysis. CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS, v. 47, n. 20, p. 7783-7817, OCT 21 2018. Web of Science Citations: 35.