Inside Cover: Bioinspired Hierarchical Nanotubular Titania Immobilized with Platinum Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production (Chem. Eur. J. 20/2015)

Abstract

Serious concern about fossil fuel depletion … …h as made production of hydrogen by new approaches increasing more appealing. In their Communication on page 7345 ff.,J .H uang et al. describe the construction of ab ioinspired nanocomposite composed of platinum nanoparticles and nanotubular titania, in which the titania matter was templated by natural cellulose substance. This photocatalytically stabile nanocomposite with 1.06 wt %o f platinum content shows the optimal photocatalytic hydrogen production activity from water splitting of 16.44 mmol h À1 g À1 .