Issue 1, 2018

Encapsulating surface-clean metal nanoparticles inside metal–organic frameworks for enhanced catalysis using a novel γ-ray radiation approach

Abstract

A facile and efficient γ-radiation strategy has been developed to incorporate surface-clean metal nanoparticles (NPs) into UiO-66-NH2 in the absence of stabilizing agents and additional reductants. This approach is enabled by metal ion reduction with active eaq and H˙ species derived from water radiolysis. As a result, highly dispersed Pd NPs with narrow size distribution were generated and evenly dispersed in UiO-66-NH2. More importantly, the radiation-reduced Pd NPs exhibit significantly enhanced catalytic activity and stability in olefin hydrogenation. Meanwhile, they are also highly active in the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol. Furthermore, the proposed radiation methodology could be successfully extended to prepare other metal NPs such as Au and Pt. Considering that γ-ray radiation is widely used in industry, this study provides a potentially scalable approach to incorporate metallic nanomaterials into metal–organic frameworks with improved catalytic performance.

Graphical abstract: Encapsulating surface-clean metal nanoparticles inside metal–organic frameworks for enhanced catalysis using a novel γ-ray radiation approach

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
17 Sep 2017
Accepted
14 Oct 2017
First published
16 Oct 2017

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 29-38

Encapsulating surface-clean metal nanoparticles inside metal–organic frameworks for enhanced catalysis using a novel γ-ray radiation approach

Z. Zhang, X. Cui, W. Yuan, Q. Yang, H. Liu, H. Xu and H. Jiang, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 29 DOI: 10.1039/C7QI00577F

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