General approach for atomically dispersed precious metal catalysts toward hydrogen reaction

As a carbon-free energy carrier,hydrogen has become the pivot for future clean energy,while efficient hydrogen production and combustion still require precious metal-based catalysts.Single-atom catalysts(SACs)with high atomic utilization open up a desirable perspective for the scale applications of precious metals,but the general and facile preparation of various precious metal-based SACs remains challenging.Herein,a general movable printing method has been developed to synthesize various precious metal-based SACs,such as Pd,Pt,Rh,Ir,and Ru,and the features of highly dispersed single atoms with nitrogen coordination have been identified by comprehensive characterizations.More importantly,the synthesized Pt-and Ru-based SACs exhibit much higher activities than their corresponding nanoparticle counterparts for hydrogen oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction(HER).In addition,the Pd-based SAC delivers an excellent activity for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.Especially for the superior mass activity of Ru-based SACs toward HER,density functional theory calculations confirmed that the adsorption of the hydrogen atom has a significant effect on the spin state and electronic structure of the catalysts.

Overview of Precious Metal Content Analysis Methods in Automotive Catalytic Converter

With the increasing awareness of environmental protection, people’s concern of pollution issues arising. Vehicles, as the most important means of transportation, its exhaust emission has received considerable attention. The catalytic converter is able to purify harmful substances in exhaust gas. The absolute content of precious metals in the catalytic converter dominates the exhaust gas purification effect. Accurate detection of precious metal content is of great significance for controlling the cost of catalysts, ensuring catalytic performance and recovering precious metals from spent catalysts. We herein summarized several instruments for precious metals content exploration, such as X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF), atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS), inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer (ICP) and spectrophotometer. In this thesis, the feasibility of using various devices for characterizing precious metal content in catalytic converters is analyzed and their strengths or weaknesses are elaborated.

Precious Metals Identification in Computer Motherboards

Elements can be classified into metals,nonmetals,or metalloids based on their chemical and physical properties.Precious metals are rare and expensive.There are ten known precious metals,three of which are of interest to investors,silver,gold,and platinum.The goal is to find physical methods to identify the presence of precious metals,silver,and gold in the metal components of the computer motherboard,and to confirm its presence by chemical methods for its use and its selling to the jewelry industry after it is physically separated from the computer motherboards.Physical and chemical tests were identified.Physical tests include inscription test,magnet test and specific gravity test for both silver and gold metal pieces and chemical tests include bleach test,nitric acid test,test karat solution kit,and jewelry test kits.

Dynamic interacting relationships among international oil prices, macroeconomic variables and precious metal prices

From the perspective of long-term and short-term, the methods of TY causality test, generalized impulse response function, variance decomposition were used to investigate the impacts of international oil prices and macroeconomic variables on Chinese gold, silver and platinum prices, but also the feedback effects of Chinese precious metal prices under this impact. The results show that international oil prices play an important role in precious metal price variation both in long-term and short-term, and exchange rate only has an effect in short-term, while interest rate is ineffective in predicting precious metal prices. In addition, precious metal prices have some feedback effects on international oil prices and interest rate in short-term.

Progress in Microwave Technology Applied to the Recovery of Precious Metals from the Secondary Resources

The recovery of precious metals from the secondary resources by microwave technology has emerged in recent years. Microwave technology as a new method for the recovery of precious metals has shown significant advantages against the conventional recovery procedures. This paper presents a review of the advances in microwave technology applied to the recovery of precious metals from the secondary resources. Many different applications are considered, including microwave-assisted leaching, microwave augmented ashing and microwave pyrolysis. In general, microwave enhanced recovery of precious metals from secondary resources.

Kunming Institute of Precious Metals

Situated in Kunming,Yunnan Province,the institute is a scientific research organiza-tion with a history of fifty years.It is nowaffiliated with the China National NonferrousMetals Industry Corporation.At the beginning of the nineteen sixties,the institute commenced research workin the field of precious metals.It has sincethen developed and extended greatly,andits activities now cover various fields ofprecious metals science and technology,including the comprehensive utilization

New Technology for High Efficient Recovery of Precious Metals Six-component Alloy Wastes

Aimed at high content of valuable metals, complicated composition, difficult to separation of precious metals six component alloy wastes, the present paper proposed a new technology of high efficient separation and purification. Using fragmentation technology realizes fast dissolution of palladium, silver, copper and zinc in the wastes, and high efficient and complete separation of them from gold and platinum; using evaporation thermal decomposition technology of mixed solution produced by nitric acid dissolving palladium, silver, copper and zinc, complete and high efficient separation of silver from palladium was realized; by control of solution acidity, using hydrazine reduction method, high efficient and complete separation of gold from platinum was realized. Using this new technology, the recovery rates of palladium and silver are above 99%, and gold and platinum above 98%, the grade of pure metals are above 99.95%.

Manufacture of Precious Metal Products： Advancement and Prospect

A survey about OJSC "SIC Supermetal'" as a processor of secondary precious metal raw materials and a manufacturer of precious metal products for technical purposes,has been presented.Brief information has been given about the basic technologies and materials used in production,including dispersion strengthened materials on the basis of platinum alloys and laminar composites.

Research on Experimental and Application for the High Efficient Enrichment of the Low-grade Precious Metal Materials

On the basis of reviewing the progress in the high efficient enrichment from secondary resources of low grade precious metals at home and abroad, a process route of the high efficient enrichment precious metals from secondary resources of low-grade metals by adding iron oxide as the trapping agent, reducing agent, additive, mixing uniformly and grinding, pelletizing, reduction, grinding and separation, and selectively acid leaching iron has been put forward in this paper. The experiments of reduction, grinding and separation, and selectively acid leaching iron were carried out mainly. Under the decided experiment parameters and conditions, iron generated during the reduction can trap precious metals during reduction, high active alloy powders were obtained from the reduced products by grinding and separation, the concentration of precious metals was obtained by acid leaching high active alloy powders. The better enrichment effect was obtained by adopting the technical route of processing. Other low grade noble metal materials and enrichment ratio of precious metals from the materials to acid products was high through acid leaching. This process has the advantages of simple process, environmental-friendly, strong adaptability of raw materials, high concentration ratio, which was regarded as a kind of the general efficient enrichment technology of low grade precious metal materials.

Simultaneous Removal of Soot and NO_x over Precious Metal Catalysts O_2-Rich Atmospheres and in the Presence of H_2O and SO_2

The activities of ZrO_2-supported precious metal catalysts for simultaneous removal of soot and NO_x in the presence of rich O_2and H_2O as well as SO_2 have been studied by keeping loose contact between catalyst and soot.The results show that only Ru,Ir and Rh have catalytic activity for simultaneous removal of soot and NO_x and the order of catalytic activity is Ru > Ir > Rh.Pt has the catalytic activity only for the removal of soot,and Ag,Pd,and Au have hardly any catalytic activities for the removal of soot and NO_x.The relationships between catalytic activity of precious metal catalysts and various reaction conditions were discussed.

Can news-based economic sentiment predict bubbles in precious metal markets?

This study examines the role of market sentiment in predicting the price bubbles of four strategic metal commodities(gold,silver,palladium,and platinum)from January 1985 to August 2020.It is the first to investigate this topic using sentiment indices,including news-based economic and consumer-based sentiments developed using different methods.We observed the role of sentiment as a reliable indicator of future bubbles for some metal commodities and found that bubbles were regularly concomi-tant with bearish sentiments for gold and platinum.Moreover,gold and palladium were the only commodities that experienced a bubble during the COVID-19 pandemic.Overall,our findings suggest inclusion of sentiment to the model that predicts the price bubbles of precious metals.

Russia's Precious Metals Market: Condition and Prospects

The region of existence of phases in equilibrium with the solid solution based on palladium. Presented to analyze the current situation in the market of precious metals in Russia. Provides information about the production and processing of precious metals. Prospects for the most likely path of development of the Russian market of precious metals.

On the Dynamics of Informatization of the Russian Market of Precious Metals

In June 2012,the UN conference on sustainable development "Rio+20" summarized the work of the world community in this direction for last 20 years and outlined the tasks for the future.The UN website contains enough information to estimate the importance of global problems and "green economy," taking into account a very complicated state of the global and Russian markets which are balancing on the verge of crisis.Unfortunately,the website does not contain the materials of the 6th civilization forum "Long-Term Strategy for Sustainable Development on the Basis of Partnership of Civilizations:Concepts,Strategy,Programs and Projects" within the bounds of "Rio+20" which has considered the problems of a dialogue and partnership in conditions of extensive globalization.These problems are covered in the Partnership of Civilizations Journal which is issued in the Russian,English and Arabian languages,including its Internet version.The International Informatization Academy (it has the general consultative status at the Economic and Social Council of the UN) and its 20-year activity in the sphere of informatization of the world and Russia on the way to the partnership of civilizations,are presented there[1].

Methodology for Precious Metal Recovery in Computer Printed Circuit

The life of electronic equipment is becoming increasingly shorter and its replacement always generates a quantity of waste increase, giving rise to a problem of environmental character and still needed new options of solid waste management that will contribute to global sustainable development. Parts of these waste are TCI （the card＇s printed circuit） which containing dangerous elements and turns them into a polluting material from the soil, water and air, being harmful to human health if there is to proper and responsible way, so the recycling of TCI to obtain precious metals is an example of industrial materials that can be recycled. Despite this, large quantities of these are not recycled and some others are not considered. The objective of this work is to present a systematic and ecological methodology for the recovery of valuable materials contained in parts of used in computers, circuit boards using a leaching process. The method determines a set of variables to evaluate the kinetics of the reaction and the leaching of metals that form the substrate of metal and to establish the parameters that affect the rate of leaching of metals through a sensitivity analysis, to identify design alternatives. It determines the quantity and percentages that constitutes the motherboard, processor, video cards, accelerator graphics, network and memory cards RAM, among others and its content of metals such as Cu, Fe, Ag, Au and Pt.

Recovery and in-situ reduction of precious metals by graphdiyne and graphdiyne oxide for antibacterial use

Based on the in-situ self-reduction and chemical stability,graphdiyne(GDY)and graphdiyne oxide(GDYO)are used as trapping agents to investigate the ability for recovering Au^(3+),Ag^+,and Pd^(2+)under different pH values and interfering ions.Under strong acidity at pH=1,these two agents demonstrate high select recovery towards the three precious metal ions,which could be insitu reduced to nanoparticles(NPs).In addition,superparamagnetic Fe_(3)O_(4)NPs are deposited on the surfaces of GDY and GDYO.The magnetic responses enable GDYFe_(3)O_(4)to recover precious metals conveniently and efficiently by the aid of an external magnetic field.This study also confirms the antibacterial activity of the as-recovered NPs deposited on GDY and GDYO against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus(1×10^(5)colony-forming unit(CFU)·mL^(-1)),and the antibacterial rates are 100%.This strategy of recovering precious metals and subsequently reusing to combat pathogens will be of great significance for environmental remediation and biomedical applications.

Phase transfer-based high-efficiency recycling of precious metal electrocatalysts

Recycling precious metals with high-efficiency is undoubtedly beneficial to optimize resource utilization for environmental remediation and sustainable development.Herein,we report an efficient route to recycle the palladium(Pd)and platinum(Pt)electrocatalysts using a phase transfer method.This strategy involves acidic dissolution of deactivated precious metal(Pd/Pt)electrocatalysts from their loading substrates,mixing with an ethanolic solution of dodecylamine(DDA),subsequent extraction of metal ions into a non-polar organic phase,and final reduction by sodium borohydride to reproduce high-performance electrocatalysts towards typical electrochemical reactions,e.g.,oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)and ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR).In specific,the transfer efficiencies are up to 98%and the final recovery rate is over 85%for Pd and Pt electrocatalysts in each cycle.This approach symbolizes a facile and efficient way to recover precious metals,which might be applied to recycling a wide range of metals in various realms after appropriate modifications.

Surface modification of phosphate ion to promote photocatalytic recovery of precious metals

Photocatalytic recovery,a novel precious metal recycling technology,dedicates to solving the environmental and energy consumption problems caused by traditional technologies.The activation of molecular oxygen (O_(2)) is one of the most critical steps in the whole process.Herein,we regulated the different adsorption intensity of oxygen on the surface by designing phosphate (PO_(4)^(3-)) modified titanium oxide(TiO_(2)).The results show that the adsorption of oxygen on the photocatalyst surface is gradually enhanced,which effectively improves the dissolution rate of precious metals.PO_(4)^(3-)modification increased the photocatalytic dissolution rate of gold (Au) by 2.8 times.The photocatalytic activity of other precious metals dissolution (such as palladium (Pd),platinum (Pt),rhodium (Rh),ruthenium (Ru) and iridium (Ir)) was also significantly improved.It is applied to the recovery of precious metals from spent catalysts and electronic devices to significantly promote the recovery efficiency.This indicates the direction for designing more efficient photocatalysts for precious metal recovery.

Non-toxic, high selectivity process for the extraction of precious metals from waste printed circuit boards

The work presented here focused on the extraction of gold (Au), silver (Ag) and palladium (Pd) from electronic waste using a solution of ammonium thiosulfate. Thiosulfate was used as a valid alternative to cyanide for precious metal extractions, due to its non-toxicity and high selectivity. The interactions between sodium thiosulfate, total ammonia/ammonium, precious metal concentrations and the particle size of the waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs) were studied by the response surface methodology (RSM) and the principal component analysis (PCA) to maximize precious metal mobilization. Au extraction reached a high efficiency with a granulometry of less than 0.25 mm, but the consumption of reagents was high. On the other hand, Ag extraction depended neither on thiosulfate/ammonia concentration nor granulometry of WPCBs and it showed efficiency of 90% also with the biggest particle size (0.50 < Ø < 1.00 mm). Pd extraction, similarly to Au, showed the best efficiency with the smallest and the medium WPCB sizes, but required less reagents compared to Au. The results showed that precious metal leaching is a complex process (mainly for Au, which requires more severe conditions in order to achieve high extraction efficiencies) correlated with reagent concentrations, precious metal concentrations and WPCB particle sizes. These results have great potentiality, suggesting the possibility of a more selective recovery of precious metals based on the different granulometry of the WPCBs. Furthermore, the high extraction efficiencies obtained for all the metals bode well in the perspective of large-scale applications.

Synergistic photocatalytic degradation of pyridine using precious metal supported TiO_2 with KBrO_3

A series of precious metals catalysts （M/TiO/, M = Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Ir, Pt or Au） were prepared by a light deposition method and the synergistic photocatalytic degradations of pyridine （20 mg/L） under UV irradiation （365 nm） using M/TiO2 with electron capture agent KBrO3 have been investigated. The results show that KBrO3 has a greatly synergistic role on M/TiO2 and the photocatalytic activity of M/TiO2 is closely related to its work function. Ag could greatly enhance the activity of TiO2 due to the binding characteristics of pyridine on Ag. Under the conditions of 0.5 wt.% Ag loading, Ag/TiO2 concentration of 0.1 g/L, KlrO3 concentration of 10 mmol/L and reaction liquid pH value at 9, the pyridine can be degraded by 64% within 3 hr, doubled than TiO2 photocatalytic system. The degradation kinetics of pyridine follows first-order kinetics and k = 5.53 × 10-3 min^-1.

Precious metal-support interaction in automotive exhaust catalysts

Precious metal-support interaction plays an important role in thermal stability and catalytic performance of the automotive exhaust catalysts. The support is not only a cartier for active compotmds in catalysts but also can improve the dispersion of precious metals and suppress the sintering of precious metals at high temperature; meanwhile, noble metals can also enhance the redox performance and oxygen storage capacity of support. The mechanism of metal-support interactions mainly includes electronic interaction, formation of alloy and inward diffusion of metal into the support or covered by support. The form and degree of precious metal-sup- port interaction depend on many factors, including the content of precious metal, the species of support and metal, and preparation methods. The research results about strong metal-support interaction （SMSI） gave a theory support for developing a kind of new cata- lyst with excellent performance. This paper reviewed the interaction phenomenon and mechanism of precious metals （Pt, Pd, Rh） and support such as A1203, CeO2, and CeO2-based oxides in automotive exhaust catalysts. The factors that affect SMSI and the catalysts developed by SMSI were also discussed.