chemicals were used
directly as provided commercially without additional purification.
Milli Q water was obtained using an IQ 7000 purifying system. P25
TiO2, HAuCl4·3H2O, PdCl2, acetone (99.9%, CH3COCH3), sodium
hydroxide (reagent grade, 97%, powder, NaOH), 1-phenylethanol (97%),
hexanoic acid (99%), pentane (99%), lauric acid (97%), palmitic acid
(99%), stearic acid (98%), oleic acid (97%), undecane (99%), pentadecane
(99%), heptadecane (99%), p-xylene (99.5%, as internal
GC standard), different solvents including dodecane (99%), PhMe (99%),
THF (99%), DMF (99%) and dichloroethane (99%) were purchased from
Sigma-Aldrich. Jatropha oil was purchased from the Shenyu company
in Yunnan Province, China. Wasted cooking oil and wasted hot-pot oil
were collected from Sichuan Province, China.