Investigations of supported Au-Pd nanoparticles on synthesized CeO2 with different morphologies and application in solvent-free benzyl alcohol oxidation

Li, Xiaoliang, Feng, Jiangjiang, Perdjon, Michal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-1647, Oh, Rena, Zhao, Wei, Huang, Xiaoyang and Liu, Shusen 2020. Investigations of supported Au-Pd nanoparticles on synthesized CeO2 with different morphologies and application in solvent-free benzyl alcohol oxidation. Applied Surface Science 505 , 144473. 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144473

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Abstract

Au-Pd bimetallic nanoparticles immobilized on series of CeO2 supports with different morphologies, e.g., rod, cube, and polyhedrons were prepared through the deposition-precipitation method with a consequent investigation on their catalytic performances for benzyl alcohol oxidation in the absence of solvent. The experimental results exhibited that the morphology of CeO2 has a markedly impact on the catalytic performance of Au-Pd/CeO2. In which Au-Pd supported on CeO2 rod could achieve higher benzyl alcohol conversion than that supported on CeO2 polyhedrons and CeO2 cube, however, CeO2 cube supported Au-Pd showed the highest selectivity towards the production of benzaldehyde. ICP-AES, XRD, Raman, N2-BET, TEM, HAADF-STEM, and XPS were conducted to characterize the catalysts. The results revealed that the excellent behavior of Au-Pd/CeO2-rod in benzyl alcohol oxidation was closely related with the smaller size of CeO2 particle, the higher concentration of oxygen defects in support and the higher number of Ce3+ and Pd2+ species on the catalyst surface. The present study on the morphologies of CeO2 support in solvent-free benzyl alcohol oxidation would offer a notable approach for the future catalyst design.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0169-4332
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 January 2020
Date of Acceptance:	21 October 2019
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2024 16:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128391

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