Fine structural photoluminescence spectra of silica-supported zirconium oxide and its photoactivity in direct methane conversion
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Published on: November 15, 2016
Hisao Yoshida1, Manohar G Chaskar, Yuko Kato
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. yoshidah@apchem.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Highly dispersed zirconium oxide species on silica exhibit fine structure in phosphorescence emission spectra showing the vibration energy of the photoactive Zr-O-Si linkage to be 955 cm-1, and the species promotes the photoinduced non-oxidative methane coupling at room temperature.

