Optical detection of organic hydrides with platinum-loaded tungsten trioxide

Yoshimura, Kimio; Hakoda, Teruyuki; Yamamoto, Shunya; Yoshikawa, Masahito

Tungsten trioxide powder with loading 0.1wt% platinum (Pt/WO) was prepared for opticaldetection of organic hydrides such as cyclohexane, decalin by impregnation with PtCl and subsequent calcination in N gas at 500C. The SEM observation of Pt/WO shows that the Pt particles with mean diameters of 80-100 nm were on the surface of the WO powder. The Pt/WO showed coloration for 13% cyclohexane at higher 100C and for 1.3% cyclohexane at 200C. The in-situ XRD results of the Pt/WO in coloring/bleaching change indicate that the coloring of Pt/WO was caused by transformation of WO to tungsten bronze. The analysis of reacted gas demonstrates that Pt on WO produces only hydrogen and benzene through dehydrogenation of cyclohexane over 100C. It was founded that the Pt/WO has potential of optical detection of organic hydrides by heating at higher 100C.