Fabrication of La-doped TiO2 Film Electrode and investigation of its electrocatalytic activity for furfural reduction

Upgrading of Bio‐Oil Model Compounds and Bio‐Crude into Biofuel by Electrocatalysis: A Review

“…Electrode commonly consists of catalysts and conductive material (catalyst support), which has a crucial effect on the bio‐oil conversion and products selectivity in bio‐oil ECH process. In detail, electrocatalysts like noble metal, [32b,33,39b,48] base metal, [32a,48a,c,49] alloy, [9a,50] oxide [51] and phosphide [40a] have been reported for upgrading bio‐crude and model compounds by ECH. Besides, graphite, activated carbon and other porous materials as catalyst supports can improve the electrocatalytic performance.…”

Lanthanum‐Doped TiO2 Nanosheet Film with Highly Reactive {001} Facets and Its Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity

“…These results demonstrated that the La-doped TiO 2 nanosheets films exhibit much enhanced photocatalytic efficiency for the degradation of MO and MB solution; the enhancement is mainly ascribed to the synergistic effect of the efficient separation and transfer of the photogenerated e -/h + pairs and dye adsorption caused by the La doping [10,31] as well as the formation of more oxygen vacancies owing to the high percentage of exposed {001} facets. [32] The photocatalytic oxidation of MO and MB by TiO 2 has been studied widely, and some possible mechanisms have been assessed in previous reports.…”

“…[4][5][6] To solve these problems, many recent studies have investigated the immobilization of TiO 2 nanoparticles on a solid carrier and the variation of their electronic structure through doping with metallic and nonmetallic elements. [4,[7][8][9] Recently, La doping has become highly promising because [10][11][12][13] it can (1) reduce electron-hole pair recombination owing to the 4f electron configuration of La and (2) promote the chemical adsorption of organic substrates on the TiO 2 crystal surfaces.…”

Zinc-electrocatalyzed hydrogenation of furfural in near-neutral electrolytes

“…Furfural can be valorized by hydrogenation to form furfuryl alcohol (FAL) and 2-methyl furan (MF) [6][7][8][9]. FAL is used as a solvent, for the production of thermostatic resins, in adhesives and coatings and has applications in perfumery, polymer and pharmaceutical industries [2,6,[10][11][12][13]. MF is a promising liquid biofuel or fuel additive because of low water solubility, high octane number and energy density [2,6,[10][11][12][13][14].…”

“…FAL is used as a solvent, for the production of thermostatic resins, in adhesives and coatings and has applications in perfumery, polymer and pharmaceutical industries [2,6,[10][11][12][13]. MF is a promising liquid biofuel or fuel additive because of low water solubility, high octane number and energy density [2,6,[10][11][12][13][14]. Further reduction of FAL and MF yields tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, respectively [5,8].…”