Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a preparation method of a CuO porous nanosheet material, which is low in cost, short in preparation period and excellent in (photo) thermocatalytic property.
The invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a CuO porous nano-sheet has a porous and flaky micro-morphology, wherein the length of the sheet layer is 1-20um, the width is 0.1-2.5um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.5 um.
The invention also provides a preparation method of the CuO porous nanosheet, which comprises the steps of solution preparation, preparation of the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor and preparation of the CuO porous nanosheet.
The preparation method comprises the following specific steps:
1) solution preparation: preparing water or ethanol solution containing copper salt, iodized salt and alkaline reactant;
2) preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: putting the solution obtained in the step 1) into a hydrothermal kettle with a polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction, and after the reaction is finished, carrying out centrifugal separation and drying on a reaction product to obtain a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: and (3) carrying out heat treatment on the precursor in the step 2) in air or other oxygen-containing atmosphere to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet.
In the above technical solution, further, the copper salt in step 1) is copper nitrate, copper chloride, copper sulfate; the iodized salt is sodium iodide or potassium iodide; the alkaline reactant is urea; the relative molar ratio of the three is 1 (0.5-2) to 1-5, and the concentration of copper salt is 0.05-0.5M.
Further, the hydrothermal reaction temperature in the step 2) is 100-140 ℃, and the time is 1-48 hours.
Further, the reaction temperature of the heat treatment in the step 3) is 300-.
The CuO porous nanosheet is used as a photo-thermal catalysis material and a photo-catalysis material.
The invention provides a simpler, more efficient and more environment-friendly hydrothermal method for preparing porous sheet layered copper oxide, enriches the morphology and variety of the copper oxide reported at present, and the I ion-assisted hydrothermal process can indirectly regulate and control the oxygen vacancy of an annealing final product, so that the catalytic activity of the copper oxide porous nanosheet is improved, and the copper oxide porous nanosheet has higher application value in the aspects of thermal catalysis and photo-thermal catalysis.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1) the invention utilizes urea hydrolysis to release OH, creates alkaline environment, and prepares regular flaky basic carbon with good crystal qualityAnd (3) acid copper precursor. Decomposition of carbonates during annealing releasing CO2So that the final product CuO not only maintains the structure of the nano-sheet, but also obtains a large amount of pores. The prepared CuO has increased specific surface area and increased active sites; the light incident path is lengthened, the light absorption capacity is enhanced, and the photo-thermal catalytic oxidation performance is improved.
2) According to the invention, the precursor is synthesized in an I ion auxiliary mode, CuO with more surface oxygen vacancies is obtained after heat treatment, and the CuO catalytic performance is improved because the oxygen vacancies are beneficial to the oxidation process of reducing gases such as CO and the like and organic matters such as rhodamine B and the like.
3) The CuO crystal obtained by combining the I ion-assisted hydrothermal method and the heat treatment has high quality, few defect recombination centers, reduced carrier recombination probability, and is beneficial to photo-thermal catalysis and photo-catalytic oxidation, and the method is simple and convenient, low in cost and high in yield.
4) The CuO porous nanosheet provided by the invention can be directly used as a photo-thermal catalysis and photocatalytic material, can realize complete thermal catalysis at 170 ℃ and photo-thermal catalytic oxidation under the irradiation of a 300W Xe lamp for CO catalytic oxidation reaction, and has more excellent performance than commercial nano CuO.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the following examples are illustrative of the present invention and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention, and that certain insubstantial modifications and adaptations of the invention by those skilled in the art in light of the foregoing description are intended to be included within the scope of the invention. The specific process parameters and the like in the following examples are also only an example of suitable ranges, and those skilled in the art can select the appropriate ranges through the description herein, and are not limited to the specific values in the following examples.
Example 1
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Preparing 50mL of 0.1M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 2: 1; stirring for 10min to dissolve.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 6h at 120 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating the reaction product with deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: putting the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor into an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 2-20um, the width is 0.2-3um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.8 um.
Example 2
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Preparing 50mL of 0.5M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper sulfate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 0.5: 1; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 9h at 120 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating the reaction product with deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: putting the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor into an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 1-16um, the width is 0.2-2um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.6 um.
Example 3
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Preparing 50mL of 0.05M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of potassium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to potassium iodide to urea is 1: 2: 5; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 9h at 120 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating the reaction product with deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: putting the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor into an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 1-16um, the width is 0.2-2um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.6 um.
Example 4
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Preparing 50mL of copper chloride aqueous solution with the concentration of 0.1M, adding a certain amount of potassium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper chloride to potassium iodide to urea is 1: 0.5: 5; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 9h at 120 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating the reaction product with deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: placing the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor in an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 1-10um, the width is 0.2-1.5um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.4 um.
Example 5
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Preparing 50mL of 0.1M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 1: 2; stirring for 10min to dissolve.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene liner, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 12h at 120 ℃, repeatedly cleaning and centrifugally separating a reaction product by using deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a drying oven at 60 ℃ for 2h for drying to obtain a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets, wherein the SEM surface appearance is shown in figure 1, the solid nanosheets with smooth surfaces are obtained, and the XRD diffraction pattern is shown in figure 3.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: placing the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor in an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and performing heat treatment to obtain the porous nanosheet. As shown in FIG. 2, the sheet has a length of 3-10um, a width of 0.4-1.5um, and a thickness of 0.1-0.3 um. The obtained nanosheet XRD diffraction pattern is as shown in figure 3, each peak corresponds to a standard diffraction peak of CuO, no other impurity diffraction peaks appear, and the peak intensity is high, which indicates that the annealed product is CuO and the crystallization quality is high. The ultraviolet-visible light absorption spectrum of the copper oxide nanosheet is shown in fig. 4, and the ultraviolet-visible light absorption spectrum shows that the nanosheet has strong absorption in the whole ultraviolet and visible light range (400-700 nm).
Example 6
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Solution: preparing 50mL of 0.1M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 1: 2; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of a polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 1h at 140 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating a reaction product by using deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: placing the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor in an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 2-10um, the width is 0.4-1.8um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.3 um.
Example 7
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Solution: preparing 50mL of 0.1M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 1: 2; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: and (2) placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of a polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 48h at 100 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating a reaction product by using deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: placing the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor in an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 350 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 1.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 1-8um, the width is 0.1-1.8um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.3 um.
Example 8
Preparation of CuO porous nano-sheet (photo) thermocatalytic material
1) Solution: preparing 50mL of 0.1M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 1: 2; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 12h at 120 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating the reaction product with deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: placing the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor in an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 300 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella layer is 1-10um, the width is 0.5-2.0um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.5 um.
Example 9
Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet (photo) thermocatalytic material.
1) Solution: preparing 50mL of 0.1M copper nitrate aqueous solution, adding a certain amount of sodium iodide and urea, wherein the molar ratio of copper nitrate to sodium iodide to urea is 1: 1: 2; stirring for 10min to dissolve the solute completely.
2) Preparing a precursor of basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheets: placing the reactant in the step 1) in a hydrothermal kettle containing 100ml of polytetrafluoroethylene inner container, carrying out hydrothermal reaction for 12h at 120 ℃, repeatedly washing and centrifugally separating the reaction product with deionized water and ethanol after the reaction is finished to obtain a precursor product, and placing the precursor product in a 60 ℃ drying oven for 2h for drying to obtain the precursor of the basic copper carbonate and the copper iodide nanosheet.
3) Preparing a CuO porous nanosheet: placing the basic copper carbonate and copper iodide nanosheet precursor in an air atmosphere tube furnace, heating to 500 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min, preserving heat for 0.5h, and carrying out heat treatment to obtain the CuO porous nanosheet, wherein the length of a lamella is 1-8um, the width is 0.2-1.3um, and the thickness is 0.1-0.3 um.
Example 10
And testing the thermocatalysis performance of the CuO porous nanosheet.
1) 50mg of the CuO porous nanosheet (photo) thermal catalytic material obtained in example 5 is placed in a quartz tube reactor; the mixed gas containing 1% CO, 7% O2 and 92% Ar enters from one end of the quartz tube, and is discharged to the gas washing bottle from the other end.
2) Testing the thermal catalysis performance: the quartz tube was placed in a tube furnace and the tube furnace started to heat up at 1 deg.C/min after the CO concentration in the reactor remained stable. CO, CO in catalytic reaction processes2The concentration is detected on line by a gas chromatograph. The CO catalytic oxidation conversion was greater than 95% at 170 ℃ in a tube furnace as shown in fig. 5.
Example 11
And testing the photo-thermal catalytic performance of the CuO porous nanosheet.
1) 50mg of the CuO porous nanosheet (photo) thermal catalytic material obtained in example 5 is placed in a quartz tube reactor; the mixed gas containing 1% CO, 7% O2 and 92% Ar enters from one end of the quartz tube, and is discharged to the gas washing bottle from the other end.
2) Testing the photo-thermal catalysis performance: the quartz tube was placed under a 300W Xe lamp while the CO concentration in the reactor remained stable. The Xe lamp was turned on at 300W to ensure uniform spot irradiation on the catalyst surface. Different light power irradiation conditions are obtained by adjusting the Xe lamp current and the relative distance of the light source and the catalyst. CO, CO in catalytic reaction processes2The concentration is detected on line by a gas chromatograph. At the luminous power of 5kW m-2Under the irradiation condition, the conversion rate of CO catalytic oxidation is more than 75%.
Comparative example 1
The specific implementation steps are basically the same as those of the example 10, except that the catalysts are respectively commercial nano CuO 50mg and P25 commercial TiO250mg, and the CO catalytic oxidation conversion rate is 1 percent and 3 percent respectively under the condition of 170 ℃ in the tubular furnace.
Comparative example 2
The specific implementation steps are basically the same as those of the example 11, except that the catalysts are respectively 50mg of commercial nano CuO and 50mg of P25 commercial TiO250mg, at an optical power of 5kW m in a 300W Xe lamp-2Under the irradiation condition, the conversion rate of CO catalytic oxidation is respectivelyIs 5% and 4%.
According to the analysis of the examples and the comparative examples, the thermal catalytic activity and the photothermal catalytic activity of the CuO porous nanosheet are much higher than those of the commercial nano CuO and the commercial P25 in the same mixed gas of 50mg of catalytic material, namely, the thermal catalytic activity and the photothermal catalytic activity of the mixed gas of 1% CO.