1. Decoration of Pd Nanoparticles with N and S Doped Carbon Quantum Dots as a Robust Catalyst for the Chemoselective Hydrogenation Reaction
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Liu Qiangqiang, Xiaonian Li, Zhu Qianwen, Ji Haoke, Zhang Xuejie, Zhou Yebin, Chunshan Lu, Nie Juanjuan, Wang Hao, and Wenfeng Han
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Hydrogen ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Chemistry ,General Chemical Engineering ,Nanoparticle ,chemistry.chemical_element ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,engineering.material ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Photochemistry ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Catalysis ,Quantum dot ,engineering ,Environmental Chemistry ,Noble metal ,Hydrogen spillover ,0210 nano-technology ,Selectivity ,Carbon - Abstract
Achieving high selectivity is one of the major challenges for the noble metal catalysts. A strategy of decoration of Pd nanoparticles by N–S doped carbon quantum dots (N,S-CQDs) to regulate selectivity is proposed. Through adjusting the loading amounts of N,S-CQDs, high selectivity toward catalytic hydrogenation reactions can be obtained. N,S-CQDs facilely adhere to the Pd nanoparticle via surface reactions among C–S/C–N species of N,S-CQDs and C–O species of the carbon support under the catalysis of Pd particles. N loss was detected due to the transformation of some C–N species into nitrogen-containing soluble substances or gas. However, S-containing species, specially −SO2/SO3 species, are turned into C–S–C (thiophene-S), leading to a strong coordination between Pd and S. As a result, a N,S-CQDs-Pd interface is fabricated, in which electrons transfer from Pd to S species and the interface of Pd–S plays a major role in hydrogen spillover and generation of dissociated hydrogen with negative charge. Conseq...
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- 2019