Fabrication of magnetic yolk-shell nanocatalysts with spatially resolved functionalities and high activity for nitrobenzene hydrogenation.

Chemistry

State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China.

Published: May 2013

In cracking from: Highly engineered bifunctional yolk-shell nanocatalysts with tailored structural configuration, that is, hollow carbon spheres as the matrix, entrapped magnetite nanoparticles in the core, and in situ formed and highly dispersed noble metal nanoparticles within the carbon shells as active catalytic sites, were prepared. These nanocatalysts show high activity, reusability, and good magnetic separation properties.

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