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Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Gold Intercalated in the Walls of Mesoporous Silica
Published on: July 9, 2015
The Enhanced Catalytic Performance and Stability of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Supported Nano-Gold with High
Palle R Murthy1, Parasuraman Selvam1,2,3
1National Centre for Catalysis Research and Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India.
Abstract:
Ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) supported gold nanoparticles of size 3-4 nm having uniform dispersion were synthesized by sol-immobilization method. OMCs such as CMK-3 and NCCR-56 with high surface area and uniform pore size were obtained, respectively, using ordered mesoporous silicas such as SBA-15 and IITM-56 as hard templates, respectively. The resulting OMC supported monodispersed nano-gold, i. e., Au/CMK-3 and Au/NCCR-56, exhibited excellent performance as mild-oxidizing catalysts for oxidation of glycerol with high hydrothermal stability. Further, unlike activated carbon supported nano-gold catalysts (Au/AC), the OMC supported nano-gold catalysts, i. e., Au/CMK-3 and Au/NCCR-56, show no aggregation of active species even after recycling. Thus, in the case of Au/CMK-3 and Au/NCCR-56, both the fresh and regenerated catalysts showed excellent performane for the chosen reaction owing to an enhanced textural integrity of the catalysts and that with remarkable selectivity towards glyceric acid. The significance of the OMC supports in maintaining the dispersion of gold nanoparticles is explicit from this study, and that the activity of Au/AC catalyst is considerably decreased (∼50 %) upon recycling as a result of agglomeration of the active gold nanoparticles over the disordered amorphous carbon matrix.
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