One-Pot Fabrication of Hollow and Porous Pd-Cu Alloy Nanospheres and Their Remarkably Improved Catalytic Performance for Hexavalent Chromium Reduction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 30948-30955

  Han, Shu He ^a   Bai, Juan ^a   Liu, Hui Min ^a   Zeng, Jing Hui ^a   Jiang, Jia Xing ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Lee, Jong Min ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

catalysis; Cr(VI) reduction; formic acid decomposition; hollow and porous nanospheres; Pd Cu alloy

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; FORMIC ACID; NANOSPHERES; PALLADIUM; PRECIOUS METALS;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; COORDINATION INTERACTIONS; CR REDUCTIONS; ENHANCED CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; FORMIC ACID DECOMPOSITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYTIC REACTIONS; OXIDATION DISSOLUTION; PD-CU ALLOYS;

COPPER ALLOYS;

EID: 84996587582     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10343     Document Type: Article

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