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In situ synthesis and catalytic activity in CO oxidation supported on porous nanocrystalline silicon

Polisski, S., Goller, B., Wilson, Karen, Kovalev, D., Zaikowskii, V. and Lapkin, A. 2010. In situ synthesis and catalytic activity in CO oxidation supported on porous nanocrystalline silicon. Journal of Catalysis 271 (1) , pp. 59-66. 10.1016/j.jcat.2010.02.002

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Abstract

Reactive surface of mesoporous nanocrystalline silicon was used to synthesise noble metal nanoparticles via in situ reduction of the precursor salt solutions. The synthetic methodology for metal nanoparticle formation was systematically developed, and reaction conditions of metal salts reduction were optimised to prepare nanoparticles of controlled size distribution in the order 5–10 nm inside the mesoporous silicon template. CO oxidation was used as a test reaction for the synthesised Pt/porous silicon catalysts. Sharp reaction light-off was observed at about 120 �C on the optimised catalysts. The catalysts were shown to be stable in the extended steady-state runs and in the catalysts re-use experiments. Metal nanoparticles were shown to be stable to sintering at elevated temperatures up to 1000 �C. However, after thermal treatment on air, Pt nanoparticles were covered by a SiOx layer and were less active in CO oxidation.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Chemistry
Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI)
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Uncontrolled Keywords: Metal nanoparticles ; Porous silicon ; Nanocrystalline silicon ; CO oxidation ; Pt catalyst.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0021-9517
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2016 22:21
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/12932

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