Submonolayered Ru Deposited on Ultrathin Pd Nanosheets used for Enhanced Catalytic Applications

Zhicheng Zhang, Ye Liu, Bo Chen, Yue Gong, Lin Gu, Zhanxi Fan, Nailiang Yang, Zhuangchai Lai, Ye Chen, Jie Wang, Ying Huang, Melinda Sindoro, Wenxin Niu, Bing Li, Yun Zong, Yanhui Yang, Xiao Huang, Fengwei Huo, Wei Huang, Hua Zhang

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Abstract

Researchers report a simple wet-chemical approach to synthesize the ultrathin Pd nanosheets (NS) decorated with submonolayered Ru, referred to as Pd@Ru NSs, by a seed-mediated growth method. Impressively, the obtained Pd@Ru NSs exhibit superior catalytic properties toward the reduction of 4-nitrophenol and the semihydrogenation of 1-octyne compared to the pure ultrathin Pd NSs and Ru NSs. A representative transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image and high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) image show that the obtained products are consisted of uniform NSs with lateral size and thickness. The aberration-corrected HAADF-STEM image of a single flat NS indicates the lattice fringes with an interplanar spacing of 0.23 nm, corresponding to the 1/3(422) planes of face-centered-cubic (fcc) Pd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10282-10286
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume28
Issue number46
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • catalysis
  • nanosheets
  • noble metals
  • semihydrogenation reaction
  • ultrathin nanostructures

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