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ArticleChemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry2025

Turning Trash to Treasure: The Influence of Carbon Waste Source on the Photothermal Behaviour of Plasmonic Titanium Carbide Interfaces.

Matthew J Margeson, Mark Atwood, Mita Dasog

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Article in Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Matthew J MargesonDepartment of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 6243 Alumni Crescent, Halifax, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Mark AtwoodDepartment of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 6243 Alumni Crescent, Halifax, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Mita DasogDepartment of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 6243 Alumni Crescent, Halifax, B3H 4R2, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-3414

Funding

Canada Foundation for Innovation, Research Nova ScotiaKillam TrustsNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery GrantOcean Frontier Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyrolysis of carbonaceous waste material has become an attractive method of recycling to generate value added products. Alongside pyrolytic oil and gas fractions, the thermal degradation forms solid pyrolytic char, which can be further processed. Local waste materials, including birch wood residue (BW), Reynoutria japonica stems (KW), spent coffee grounds (CG), tire rubber (TR), and lobster shells (LS) we assessed to form pyrolytic char. Using a simple acid treatment step on the chars, this study has shown successfully incorporate many of them into the low-temperature synthesis of plasmonic TiC NPs. Each char was shown to display distinctive physical and chemical characteristics, which was exploited to synthesize TiC NPs with unique properties. To study the plasmonic behaviour of each TiC sample, solar driven desalination experiments were conducted. TiC formed from TR char achieved broadband absorbance of ~95 % of the solar spectrum, reaching a near-perfect solar-to-vapor generation efficiency of 95 %, or a water generation rate of 1.40±0.01 kg m

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CarbidesCharDesalinationPlasmonicsSolar evaporationUpcycling

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PMID39374198
PMCPMC11733408

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