TY - JOUR
T1 - Copper-based nanocatalysts for nitroarene reduction-A review of recent advances
AU - Kottappara, Revathi
AU - Pillai, Suresh C.
AU - Kizhakkekilikoodayil Vijayan, Baiju
N1 - Funding Information:
RK and BKV acknowledge the funding from KSCSTE project (Order No. 1562/2016/KSCSTE ). We also acknowledge Kannur University for providing the grant by minor research project (Pl. D./A2/UGC- Minor R. P/2018).
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Prof. Suresh C. Pillai obtained his PhD in the area of Nanotechnology from Trinity College Dublin and then performed his postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA . Upon completion of this appointment,he returned to Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST-DIT as a Senior Scientist in April 2004. He has joined IT Sligo in 2013 as a senior lecturer in nanotechnology and currently leads the Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering Research Group. He is the recipient of ‘Boyle-Higgins Award -2019’ from the Institute of Chemistry Ireland. He is an elected fellow of the UK’s Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He has also completed an executive MBA from Dublin City University, in 2009. Suresh was responsible for acquiring more than €4million direct R&D funding. He has published several scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to several book chapters, has presented in more than forty international conferences and has delivered over forty international invited talks.Suresh has also been invited to deliver keynote/plenary speeches at various international conferences including “Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2017)”, Taipei, Taiwan, 22 nd December 2017; International Symposium of Environmental Catalysis (ISEC), South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China (2016);IWA Symposium on Environmental Nanotechnology in Nanjing, China (2013), the International Green technology conference, India (2013) and the European Photocatalysis conference in Slovania (2013). He is the lead inventor in two granted US patents (awarded in 2013 and 2015) and one UK patent (awarded in 2015) and a number of international patents (pending). His research work was featured in various international media such as BBC World, BBC London, RTE-1 TV, Ocean FM radio and in a number of national and international print media (Times UK, The Guardian, Irish Times etc.). Suresh is a recipient of the ‘Industrial Technologies Award 2011’ for licensing functional coatings to Irish companies. He was also the recipient of the ‘Hothouse Commercialisation Award 2009’ from the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and also the recipient of the ‘Enterprise Ireland Research Commercialization National Award 2009’. He has also been nominated for the ‘One to Watch’ award 2009 for commercialising R&D work (Enterprise Ireland). One of the nanomaterials based environmental technologies developed by his research team was selected to demonstrate as one of the fifty ‘innovative technologies’ (selected after screening over 450 nominations from EU) at the first Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission on 5-6 th December 2011. He is the national delegate and technical expert for ISO standardization committee and European standardization (CEN) committee onphotocatalyticmaterials.He is an associate editor for the Chemical Engineering Journal and Editorial Board Member for the journal Applied Catalysis B (Elsevier). His full research publications list can be viewed at http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4zkNK7sAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - Heterogeneous catalysts based on copper (Cu) nanostructures possess several advantages compared to other metallic nanocatalysts such as gold (Au), silver (Ag), platinum (Pt), and palladium (Pd). Various Cu based composite catalysts such as copper-graphene compounds, Co–Cu mixed spinel materials, Cu based Metal-Organic Frameworks (Cu-MOF), CuO-reduced graphene oxide (CuO-rGO) nanocomposites, copper chalcogenides, copper nanoferrites and mesoporous Cu2O-CeO2 nanospheres for the reduction of nitroarenes are reviewed in detail. It has been shown that Cu nanostructures, in combination with other materials such as 2D materials or MOFs, can offer a significant improvement in the catalytic performance compared to the bare metals in the nanoscale. Photocatalytic reduction of nitro aromatic compounds using copper chalcogenides such as CuS, CuInS2 and other composite structures including Cu2O, Ag/Cu2O hybrids, Cu2O-TiO2 heterojunction are also addressed. Proposed reaction pathways, kinetics, and mechanism for the reduction of nitroarenes using various Cu based nanostructure are also reviewed comprehensively.
AB - Heterogeneous catalysts based on copper (Cu) nanostructures possess several advantages compared to other metallic nanocatalysts such as gold (Au), silver (Ag), platinum (Pt), and palladium (Pd). Various Cu based composite catalysts such as copper-graphene compounds, Co–Cu mixed spinel materials, Cu based Metal-Organic Frameworks (Cu-MOF), CuO-reduced graphene oxide (CuO-rGO) nanocomposites, copper chalcogenides, copper nanoferrites and mesoporous Cu2O-CeO2 nanospheres for the reduction of nitroarenes are reviewed in detail. It has been shown that Cu nanostructures, in combination with other materials such as 2D materials or MOFs, can offer a significant improvement in the catalytic performance compared to the bare metals in the nanoscale. Photocatalytic reduction of nitro aromatic compounds using copper chalcogenides such as CuS, CuInS2 and other composite structures including Cu2O, Ag/Cu2O hybrids, Cu2O-TiO2 heterojunction are also addressed. Proposed reaction pathways, kinetics, and mechanism for the reduction of nitroarenes using various Cu based nanostructure are also reviewed comprehensively.
KW - Composites
KW - Copper
KW - Copper oxide
KW - Graphene
KW - Nitrophenol
KW - Photocatalysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.inoche.2020.108181
DO - 10.1016/j.inoche.2020.108181
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85089855586
SN - 1387-7003
VL - 121
JO - Inorganic Chemistry Communications
JF - Inorganic Chemistry Communications
M1 - 108181
ER -