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Preparation of Silver-Palladium Alloyed Nanoparticles for Plasmonic Catalysis under Visible-Light Illumination
Published on: August 18, 2020
Plasmonic and catalytic AuPd nanowheels for the efficient conversion of light into chemical energy
Xiaoqing Huang1, Yongjia Li, Yu Chen
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Abstract:
Reinventing the wheel: Bimetallic AuPd nanowheels, a freestanding form of 2D AuPd nanostructures, were synthesized in a one-pot process. The well-defined and tunable surface plasmon resonance displayed by these nanowheels was exploited in a unique catalytic process in which light energy was used to drive catalytic reactions, such as the Suzuki coupling, with much higher efficiency than that of the conventional heating process.

