Highly durable carbon-supported Pt catalysts prepared by hydrosilane-assisted nanoparticle deposition and surface functionalization

Akinori Saito; Hiromi Tsuji; Iwao Shimoyama; Ken-ichi Shimizu; Yuta Nishina

doi:10.1039/c4cc10298c

Highly durable carbon-supported Pt catalysts prepared by hydrosilane-assisted nanoparticle deposition and surface functionalization

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Apr 7;51(27):5883-6. doi: 10.1039/c4cc10298c. Epub 2015 Mar 2.

Authors

Akinori Saito¹, Hiromi Tsuji, Iwao Shimoyama, Ken-ichi Shimizu, Yuta Nishina

Affiliation

¹ Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1, Tsushimanaka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.

PMID: 25729781
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10298c

Abstract

Hydrosilane enabled the formation of Pt nanoparticles and the silane functionalization of a carbon support material in one pot. The metal/Si-modified carbon composites are highly durable during catalytic methane oxidation.