Mesoporous vanadium nitride as a high performance catalyst support for formic acid electrooxidation

Minghui Yang; Zhiming Cui; Francis J DiSalvo

doi:10.1039/c2cc36118c

Mesoporous vanadium nitride as a high performance catalyst support for formic acid electrooxidation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Nov 4;48(85):10502-4. doi: 10.1039/c2cc36118c.

Authors

Minghui Yang¹, Zhiming Cui, Francis J DiSalvo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. m.yang@cornell.edu

PMID: 22992648
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc36118c

Abstract

Mesoporous vanadium nitride (VN) with high surface area and good electrical conductivity was prepared by a solid-solid phase separation method from a Zn containing vanadium oxide, Zn(3)V(2)O(8). The VN supported Pd catalyst exhibited significant catalytic activity for formic acid oxidation.