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Synthesis of amorphous Pd-based nanocatalysts for efficient alcoholysis of styrene oxide and electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Show Author's Information Yiyao Ge1,§,  Jingjie Ge4,5,§,  Biao Huang1,2,§,  Xixi Wang1,§,  Guigao Liu1,  Xiang-Huan Shan6,  Lu Ma7,  Bo Chen1,  Guanghua Liu8,  Songmo Du8,  An Zhang1,  Hongfei Cheng5,  Qingbo Wa1,  Shiyao Lu1,  Lujiang Li1,  Qinbai Yun1,  Kuo Yuan1,  Qinxin Luo1,  Zhichuan J. Xu5,  Yonghua Du7,  Hua Zhang1,2,3( )
Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center (NPMM), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518057, China
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study & Energy Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics & Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

§ Yiyao Ge, Jingjie Ge, Biao Huang, and Xixi Wang contributed equally to this work.

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phase engineering of nanomaterials, amorphous nanomaterials, Pd-based nanocatalysts, ring-opening reaction of styrene oxide, electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution
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Amorphous nanomaterials with long-range disordered structures could possess distinct properties and promising applications, especially in catalysis, as compared with their conventional crystalline counterparts. It is imperative to achieve the controlled preparation of amorphous noble metal-based nanomaterials for the exploration of their phase-dependent applications. Here, we report a facile wet-chemical reduction strategy to synthesize various amorphous multimetallic Pd-based nanomaterials, including PdRu, PdRh, and PdRuRh. The phase-dependent catalytic performances of distinct Pd-based nanomaterials towards diverse catalytic applications have been demonstrated. Specifically, the usage of PdRu nanocatalysts with amorphous and crystalline face-centered cubic (fcc) phases can efficiently switch the ring-opening route of styrene oxide to obtain different products with high selectivity through alcoholysis reaction and hydrogenation reaction, respectively. Moreover, when used as an electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), the synthesized amorphous PdRh nanocatalyst exhibits low overpotential and high turnover frequency values, outperforming its crystalline fcc counterpart and most of the reported Pd-based HER electrocatalysts.


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Synthesis of amorphous Pd-based nanocatalysts for efficient alcoholysis of styrene oxide and electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Show Author's information Yiyao Ge1,§, Jingjie Ge4,5,§, Biao Huang1,2,§, Xixi Wang1,§, Guigao Liu1, Xiang-Huan Shan6, Lu Ma7, Bo Chen1, Guanghua Liu8, Songmo Du8, An Zhang1, Hongfei Cheng5, Qingbo Wa1, Shiyao Lu1, Lujiang Li1, Qinbai Yun1, Kuo Yuan1, Qinxin Luo1, Zhichuan J. Xu5, Yonghua Du7, Hua Zhang1,2,3( )
Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center (NPMM), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518057, China
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study & Energy Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics & Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

§ Yiyao Ge, Jingjie Ge, Biao Huang, and Xixi Wang contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Amorphous nanomaterials with long-range disordered structures could possess distinct properties and promising applications, especially in catalysis, as compared with their conventional crystalline counterparts. It is imperative to achieve the controlled preparation of amorphous noble metal-based nanomaterials for the exploration of their phase-dependent applications. Here, we report a facile wet-chemical reduction strategy to synthesize various amorphous multimetallic Pd-based nanomaterials, including PdRu, PdRh, and PdRuRh. The phase-dependent catalytic performances of distinct Pd-based nanomaterials towards diverse catalytic applications have been demonstrated. Specifically, the usage of PdRu nanocatalysts with amorphous and crystalline face-centered cubic (fcc) phases can efficiently switch the ring-opening route of styrene oxide to obtain different products with high selectivity through alcoholysis reaction and hydrogenation reaction, respectively. Moreover, when used as an electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), the synthesized amorphous PdRh nanocatalyst exhibits low overpotential and high turnover frequency values, outperforming its crystalline fcc counterpart and most of the reported Pd-based HER electrocatalysts.

Keywords: phase engineering of nanomaterials, amorphous nanomaterials, Pd-based nanocatalysts, ring-opening reaction of styrene oxide, electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

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Received: 22 September 2022
Accepted: 23 September 2022
Published: 13 December 2022
Issue date: April 2023

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H. Z. thanks the support from ITC via the Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center (NPMM), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (No. 11301721), the Start-Up Grant (No. 9380100) and the grants (No. 1886921) from the City University of Hong Kong. This research used 7-BM of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract (No. DE-SC0012704).

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