Issue 27, 2018

Architecture of yolk–shell structured mesoporous silica nanospheres for catalytic applications

Abstract

We report the design and realization of yolk–shell structured nanospheres with periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) nanospheres or noble metal nanoparticles encapsulated in mesoporous silica shells via a selective etching method. These architectures have well controlled structure, size and morphology. The yolk–shell structured PMO@SiO2 nanoparticles can be precisely functionalized with different catalytic functionalities, even incompatible acidic and basic groups: the PMO core with amino (–NH2) groups and the mesoporous silica shell with sulfonic acid (–SO3H) groups. As a nanoreactor, the as-synthesized Au@SiO2 nanospheres show faster reduction of 4-nitrophenol than that of nitrobenzene. Furthermore, the prepared PMO-NH2@SiO2-SO3H nanoparticles can be used as bifunctional catalysts with highly efficient catalytic performance for catalyzing the deacetalization-Henry cascade reaction.

Graphical abstract: Architecture of yolk–shell structured mesoporous silica nanospheres for catalytic applications

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
01 Jun 2018
Accepted
10 Jun 2018
First published
12 Jun 2018

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 9072-9078

Architecture of yolk–shell structured mesoporous silica nanospheres for catalytic applications

X. Wang, Y. He, Y. Ma, J. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Qiao and Q. Huo, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 9072 DOI: 10.1039/C8DT02254B

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