Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Oxide Nano particles Supported on Silica Catalyst

Abstract

Copper oxide Nanopartical supported on silica catalyst was synthesized by chemical methods from sodium silicate in hydrochloric acid (11.8M) and copper acetate sol-gel process. This method involves two steps, first hydrolysis of copper acetate and condensation of copper hydroxide Cu (OH).The catalysis and catalysis supported on silica were characterized by Fourier transform- Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectroscopy the results obtained were indicating that there was a clear difference between copper oxide catalyst and copper oxide supported on silica catalyst. Finally the comparison between two catalysts were studied and the result obtained showed that the copper oxide nano particles supported on silica catalyst was better than the copper oxide nano particles without support.