Issue 32, 2011

Facile fabrication of nanoporous Au–Pd bimetallic foams with high catalytic activity for 2-nitrophenolreduction and SERS property

Abstract

Nanoporous Au–Pd bimetallic foams with a large BET surface area of 20.19 m2 g−1 have been successfully achieved via a mild hydrothermal process (100 °C) in the presence of dextran, which serves as both surfactant and reductant. X-Ray diffraction measurements confirm that the foams are bimetals with a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure, and electron microscopies show that the foams are composed of interlaced necklaces assembled from granular nanocrystals. The formation mechanism of the porous nanostructures has been clearly deduced from the measurements of Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) on different positions of some typical necklaces. The nanoporous bimetallic foams could catalyze the reduction of 2-nitrophenol to 2-aminophenol quite effectively at room temperature, and also exhibit good surface enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) activity with Rhodamine 6G, which implies that the foams would be of great potential in catalysis and SERS applications.

Graphical abstract: Facile fabrication of nanoporous Au–Pd bimetallic foams with high catalytic activity for 2-nitrophenol reduction and SERS property

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Jan 2011
Accepted
28 Apr 2011
First published
21 Jun 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 11961-11967

Facile fabrication of nanoporous Au–Pd bimetallic foams with high catalytic activity for 2-nitrophenol reduction and SERS property

H. Liu and Q. Yang, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 11961 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM10109A

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