Carbon Nano Tube Supported Pd Catalyst: Effect of Support Textual Properties with Pre-Treatment Method of Pd Particle

The aim of this work is to be compared the effect of supports textural properties with pre-treatment method on dispersion of Pd particle. The CNTs were functionalized by different concentration of acid in order to obtain materials with different chemical and physical properties. The characteristics of functionalized CNTs were investigated by FT-IR and Rama spectropy. The Pd/CNTs catalysts prepared on support having the different surface properties were characterized by XRD, FE-TEM and CO-chemisorption. When pretreated 8M concentration, the CNTs has the highest amount of oxygen functional group and ID/IG ratio, in this study. Pd/CNT8M has high dispersion and small particle size. From these results, we confirmed that characteristics of Pd/CNTs catalyst such as particle size and dispersion of Pd are influenced by density of oxygen functional group and disorder of CNTs. And we have observed that acid treatment concentration of 8M is sufficient to functionalize the CNTs by introducing -COOH group of CNTs surfaces.