@article{Zhong2019, 
author = {Shan Zhong and Nobuko Tsumori and Mitsunori Kitta and Qiang Xu},
title = {Immobilizing palladium nanoparticles on boron-oxygen-functionalized carbon nanospheres towards efficient hydrogen generation from formic acid},
year = {2019},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {12},
number = {12},
pages = {2966-2970},
keywords = {palladium, heterogeneous catalysis, hydrogen generation, formic acid, boron-oxygen functionalization, carbon nanosphere},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-019-2539-9},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-019-2539-9},
abstract = {Carbon nanospheres (XC-72R) were functionalized by boron-oxygen (B-O) through coannealing with boric acid, to which highly dispersed palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) (~ 1.7 nm) were immobilized by a wet chemical reduction for the first time. The resultant Pd/OB-C catalyst exhibits significantly improved activity for the dehydrogenation from formic acid (FA) compared to pristine XC-72R supported Pd NPs (Pd/C). Impressively, by adding melamine precursor, the B-O and nitrogen (N)-functionalized product OB-C-N displays an extremely high B content, ca. 34 times higher than OB-C. The Pd/OB-C-N catalyst with an ultrafine Pd particle size of ~ 1.4 nm shows a superb activity, with a turnover frequency (TOF) as high as 5, 354 h-1 at 323 K, owing to the uniform ultrafine Pd NPs and the effect from B-O and N functionalities.}
}