Abstract
We investigated the optical absorption spectra of Ag-, Cu-, and Au-mesoporous systems, respectively, after the samples were heated in dry air and in wet air. As expected, dry air at high temperature leads to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) disappearance of Ag- and Cu- and a slight SPR increase of Au-. However, a small amount of water vapor in air induces a strong SPR appearance for both Ag- and Au-containing samples, indicating that water vapor plays an abnormal reduction effect on both Ag and Au species in mesoporous , despite the fact that it usually plays an oxidation role on Pt-group metals, but it cannot induce the SPR appearance for the Cu-containing sample under the same condition.
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