Tuning the wettability of mesoporous silica for enhancing the catalysis efficiency of aqueous reactions.

Chem Commun (Camb)

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Wucheng Road 92, Taiyuan 030006, China.

Published: September 2014

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A series of mesoporous silica-based catalysts with finely-tuned surface wettability have been synthesized, of which the catalysis efficiency towards aqueous hydrogenations is highly dependent on their surface wettability and can be five times higher than that of the commercial Pd/C catalyst.

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