An Efficient Strategy to Drive Nanoparticles into Carbon Nanotubes and the Remarkable Effect of Confinement on Their Catalytic Performance

✍ Scribed by Eva Castillejos; Pierre-Jean Debouttière; Lucian Roiban; Abderrahim Solhy; Victor Martinez; Yolande Kihn; Ovidiu Ersen; Karine Philippot; Bruno Chaudret; Philippe Serp

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 611 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805273

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Are you in? Bimetallic PtRu nanoparticles have been selectively confined inside or deposited outside carbon nanotubes (see picture). The confined nanoparticles display significantly higher selectivity and catalytic activity in hydrogenation reactions.magnified image