Preparation of the WO3/TiO2 using microwave-heating in ionic liquid and its application in electrocatalysis

A high dispersed WO
₃
/TiO
₂
particles were prepared by using a microwave heating assisted ionic liquid method. The phase structure and morphology of WO
₃
/TiO
₂
particles were characterized by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. The result shows that fluffy WO
₃
balls were assembled on TiO
₂
and the surface structure of WO
₃
/TiO
₂
particle was comprised of numbers of shuttle-like nanoneedles. The different WO
₃
/TiO
₂
particles were obtained by simply changing the concentration of the ionic liquid. Then PtWO
₃
/TiO
₂
catalysts were prepared and its electro-catalytic performances were evaluated by cyclic voltammetry and the CO stripping test. The results revealed that PtWO
₃
/TiO
₂
-1.5 catalyst had the better performance for methanol oxidation and CO tolerance which proved that the ionic liquid in this reaction system provided the multiple functions for preparing a promising catalyst for methanol oxidation.