Porous nanographene formation on γ-alumina nanoparticles via transition-metal-free methane activation

Authors :: Masanori Yamamoto
Qi Zhao
Shunsuke Goto
Yu Gu
Takaaki Toriyama
Tomokazu Yamamoto
Hirotomo Nishihara
Alex Aziz
Rachel Crespo-Otero
Devis Di Tommaso
Masazumi Tamura
Keiichi Tomishige
Takashi Kyotani
Kaoru Yamazaki
Source :: Chemical Science. 13:3140-3146
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022.
Abstract: Oxygen vacancies on the (100) surface of γ-Al2O3 nanoparticles catalyse CH4-CVD for single-layered nanoporous graphenes with no transition metal reaction centre. The rate-limiting step is the proton transfer (PT) in the activation of CH4 on them.

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