Size effect studies in catalysis: a simple surfactant-free synthesis of sub 3 nm Pd nanocatalysts supported on carbon

Jonathan Quinson; Søren B Simonsen; Luise Theil Kuhn; Sebastian Kunz; Matthias Arenz

doi:10.1039/c8ra06912c

Size effect studies in catalysis: a simple surfactant-free synthesis of sub 3 nm Pd nanocatalysts supported on carbon

RSC Adv. 2018 Oct 4;8(59):33794-33797. doi: 10.1039/c8ra06912c. eCollection 2018 Sep 28.

Authors

Jonathan Quinson¹, Søren B Simonsen², Luise Theil Kuhn², Sebastian Kunz³, Matthias Arenz⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 5 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark jonathan.quinson@chem.ku.dk.
² Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark Frederiksborgvej 399 4000 Roskilde Denmark.
³ Institute for Applied and Physical Chemistry, University of Bremen Leobenerstraße 28359 Bremen Germany.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern Freiestrasse 3 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland matthias.arenz@dcb.unibe.ch.

Abstract

Supported Pd nanoparticles are prepared under ambient conditions via a surfactant-free synthesis. Pd(NO₃)₂ is reduced in the presence of a carbon support in alkaline methanol to obtain sub 3 nm nanoparticles. The preparation method is relevant to the study of size effects in catalytic reactions like ethanol electro-oxidation.