Results show a complete combustion of butane at 130 A degrees C, which is about 20 A degrees C lower than temperatures required by actual catalysts made of Pd nanoparticles deposited on the exterior surface of TiO2 nanotubes. Structure characterization suggests that this higher performance at lower...
Here we prepared a novel catalyst made of Pd nanoparticles entrapped in TiO2 nanotubes by vacuum-assisted impregnation. Then, we tested this catalyst for butane combustion. The catalyst was characterized by N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms, transmission electronic microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray ...