Hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes modified with palladium nanoparticles for environmental catalytic applications.

Title Hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes modified with palladium nanoparticles for environmental catalytic applications.
Authors M. Tian; Y. Long; D. Xu; S. Wei; Z. Dong
Journal J Colloid Interface Sci
DOI 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.03.041
Abstract

Nowadays, chemical catalytic methods for the treatment of organic wastes are attracting more and more research attention. In the current research, novel catalysts with palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) supported on the hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes (h-mSiO) were synthesized for the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) and hydrodechlorination (HDC) of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP). The key point for the fabrication of the catalysts is that a certain thickness of the silica shell was wrapped on the multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) or Pd/MWNTs through biphase stratification approach, and then the samples were calcined to remove the MWNTs. Thereby, h-mSiO and Pd@h-mSiO samples were obtained. The prepared materials have excellent pore structure and exhibit high specific surface areas. The reduction of 4-NP by the Pd/h-mSiO and Pd@h-mSiO catalysts showed higher TOF values than many other catalysts, and the yield of HDC of 4-CP to phenol reached 100% with a low loading of Pd in water solvent. The excellent catalytic activities of the Pd/h-mSiO and Pd@h-mSiO catalysts should attribute to the excellent connectivity of the h-mSiO which not only can increase the accessibility of the Pd active sites but also enhance the mass transfer of the reactants. It is worth mention that, there is almost no Pd NPs aggregation or losing during the reaction process, and the prepared catalysts still showed good catalytic activity and physical stability after recycling. Moreover, the catalyst shows potential for catalytic reduction of nitroarenes in a fixed bed reactor, thus could be used for continuously treat nitroarenes polluted water.

Citation M. Tian; Y. Long; D. Xu; S. Wei; Z. Dong.Hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes modified with palladium nanoparticles for environmental catalytic applications.. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2018;521:132140. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2018.03.041

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