In a study published in the journal National Science Review, a material synthesized by Dr. Shen Yu was used to introduce hydroperoxide into the synthesis system of titanium silicates.
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A method of engineering the electrostatic interface by using a novel TiOOH as hydrolysis product, which produces considerable TiOO– to interact with positively charged surfactant micelles. Removal of surfactants results in the formation of mesopores and TiO 6 sites on mesopore surface. Credit: Science China Press At first, he treated this material as a reference sample for another project and conducted catalytic oxidative desulfurization tests on this catalyst. Accidently, he found that this catalyst completely removed all thiophenic sulfurs in minutes, much more efficient than all the rest catalysts. "I almost convinced myself that there may be something wrong with my operations" Dr. Yu says. The supervisor Prof. Li-hua Chen and Prof. Bao-Lian Su thought that systematical investigations should be carried out to confirm whether there were some special catalytic sites in this material. The team further used a series of advanced spectroscopy techniques to determine the active sites inside. They found that a novel hexa-coordinated Ti (TiO 6 )…