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Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotube with Doped Co and N Atoms and its Catalytic Applications in Hydrogen Production
Published on: December 6, 2021
An efficient strategy to drive nanoparticles into carbon nanotubes and the remarkable effect of confinement on their
Eva Castillejos1, Pierre-Jean Debouttière, Lucian Roiban
1CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination composante ENSIACET, 118, route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse, France.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|February 28, 2009
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.

