Confining the Nucleation of Pt to In Situ Form (Pt-Enriched Cage)@CeO<sub>2</sub> Core@Shell Nanostructure as Excellent Catalysts for Hydrogenation Reactions.

Song, Shuyan; Liu, Xianchun; Li, Junqi; Pan, Jing; Wang, Fan; Xing, Yan; Wang, Xiao; Liu, Xiaogang et al. · Adv Mater · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Ultrathin (Pt-enriched cage)@CeO<sub>2</sub> core@shell nanostructures are successfully fabricated via a facile hard-template method. It is found that the usage of Pd@Ag@CeO<sub>2</sub> bi-metallic core@shell nanostructure as the hard template plays an important role in avoiding the independent nucleation of Pt metal during the galvanic replacement process between K<sub>2</sub> PtCl<sub>4</sub> and Ag components. This unique core@shell samples show extraordinary activity and selectivity for the cinnamaldehyde hydrogenation reaction. It can achieve over 95% conversion with 87% selectivity of hydrocinnamaldehyde in 5 h under 1 atm H<sub>2</sub> pressure. It is considered that such high catalytic performance could be attributed to the densely CeO<sub>2</sub> -coated core@shell hybrid form as well as the ultrathin nature of the Pt-enriched cage.