In situ room temperature synthesis of a polyaniline-gold-titanium(IV) dioxide heteronanojunction system

Yukihide Kitamura; Tadahiro Niwa; Shin-ichi Naya; Takanori Hattori; Yasutaka Sumida; Hiroaki Tada

doi:10.1039/c2cc37172c

In situ room temperature synthesis of a polyaniline-gold-titanium(IV) dioxide heteronanojunction system

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Jan 18;49(5):520-2. doi: 10.1039/c2cc37172c.

Authors

Yukihide Kitamura¹, Tadahiro Niwa, Shin-ichi Naya, Takanori Hattori, Yasutaka Sumida, Hiroaki Tada

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, 3-4-1, Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan.

PMID: 23202748
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc37172c

Abstract

A gold nanoparticle-loaded TiO(2) (Au/TiO(2))-H(2)O(2) catalytic system induces polymerization of aniline in aqueous sulfuric acid solution at room temperature to yield a polyaniline-gold-TiO(2) composite material having wide possible applications.