Contactless Electrodeposition of Palladium Catalysts

Jean-Claude Bradley; Zhongming Ma

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990601)38:11<1663::AID-ANIE1663>3.0.CO;2-C

Contactless Electrodeposition of Palladium Catalysts

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 1999 Jun 1;38(11):1663-1666. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990601)38:11<1663::AID-ANIE1663>3.0.CO;2-C.

Authors

Jean-Claude Bradley¹, Zhongming Ma¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, 32nd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (USA), Fax: (+1) 215-895-1265.

Abstract

Site-selective electrodeposition of catalytically active metals on electrically conducting support particles was achieved by polarization with an electric field in a nonconductive matrix in the presence of metal salt solutions. The transmission electron micrograph shows a graphite particle to which Pd and Au were applied sequentially to opposite ends by reversing the direction of the electric field.

Keywords: Electrochemistry; Heterogeneous catalysis; Palladium.