Bimetallic palladium-gold （PdAu） catalysts have better catalytic performance than monometallic catalysts for many applications. PdAu catalysts with controlled nanostructures and enhanced activi- ties have been exten...Bimetallic palladium-gold （PdAu） catalysts have better catalytic performance than monometallic catalysts for many applications. PdAu catalysts with controlled nanostructures and enhanced activi- ties have been extensively studied but their syntheses require multiple and occasionally complicated steps, In this work, we demonstrated that supported PdAu catalysts could be simply prepared by doping a supported Pd catalyst with gold through wet impregnation and calcination. Resulting PdAu-on-carbon （PdAu/C） catalysts were tested for the room-temperature, aqueous-phase hydro- dech/orination of trichloroethene. The most active PdAu/C catalyst （Pd 1.0 wt%, Au 1.1 wt%, dried/air/H2 process] had an initial turnover frequency （TOF] of 34.0×10^-2 mOITcE mOled-1 S-1, which was 〉15 times higher than monometallic Pd/C （Pd 1,0 wt%, initial TOF of 2.2 ×10^-2 molTCE molpd^-1s^-1）. Through X-ray absorption spectroscopy, the gold kept Pd from oxidizing under calcination at 400℃. Probable nanostructure evolution pathways are proposed to explain the observed catalysis,展开更多
基金supported,in part,by the National Science Foundation(CHE-1012256 and DMR-0804049)by the ACS-Petroleum Research Fund(49137-ND10)+1 种基金J.Huang was supported,in part,by a research fellowship from the China Scholarship Councilperformed as a User Project at the National Center for Electron Microscopy,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,which is supported by the US Department of Energy
基金supported by the National Science Foundation,United States(EEC-0647452)the Welch Foundation(C-1676)~~
文摘Bimetallic palladium-gold （PdAu） catalysts have better catalytic performance than monometallic catalysts for many applications. PdAu catalysts with controlled nanostructures and enhanced activi- ties have been extensively studied but their syntheses require multiple and occasionally complicated steps, In this work, we demonstrated that supported PdAu catalysts could be simply prepared by doping a supported Pd catalyst with gold through wet impregnation and calcination. Resulting PdAu-on-carbon （PdAu/C） catalysts were tested for the room-temperature, aqueous-phase hydro- dech/orination of trichloroethene. The most active PdAu/C catalyst （Pd 1.0 wt%, Au 1.1 wt%, dried/air/H2 process] had an initial turnover frequency （TOF] of 34.0×10^-2 mOITcE mOled-1 S-1, which was 〉15 times higher than monometallic Pd/C （Pd 1,0 wt%, initial TOF of 2.2 ×10^-2 molTCE molpd^-1s^-1）. Through X-ray absorption spectroscopy, the gold kept Pd from oxidizing under calcination at 400℃. Probable nanostructure evolution pathways are proposed to explain the observed catalysis,
