Visible-light C–heteroatom bond cleavage and detoxification of chemical warfare agents using titania-supported gold nanoparticles as photocatalyst

Ștefan Neațu, Bogdan Cojocaru, Vasile I. Pârvulescu, Vasile Şomoghi, Mercedes Álvaro, Hermenegildo Garcı́a

Journal of Materials Chemistry · 2010 · 53 citations · 30 references

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Abstract

Gold nanoparticles supported on TiO2 effect the detoxification of soman and VX nerve gases and yperite vesicant agent at room temperature upon visible light illumination.

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