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Shape-Persistent Porous Organic Cage Supported Palladium Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials

Jiang, Shan; Cox, Harrison; Papaioannou, Evangelos; Tang, Chenyang; Liu, Huiyu; Murdoch, Billy J; Gibson, Emma K; Metcalfe, Ian; Evans, John SO; Beaumont, Simon Kenneth

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Authors

Shan Jiang

Harrison Cox

Evangelos Papaioannou

Chenyang Tang

Huiyu Liu

Billy J Murdoch

Emma K Gibson

Ian Metcalfe



Abstract

Porous Organic Cages (POCs) are an emerging class of self-assembling, porous materials with novel properties. They offer a key advantage over other porous materials in permitting facile solution processing and re-assembly. The combination of POCs with metal nanoparticles (NPs) unlocks applications in the area of catalysis. In this context, POCs can function as both the template of ultra-small NPs and a porous, but reprocessable, heterogeneous catalyst support. Here, we demonstrate the synthesis of ultra-small Pd NPs with an imine linked POC known as ‘CC3’, and show that hydrogen gas can be used to form metallic NPs at ~ 200 °C without the reduction of the organic cage (and the accompanying, unwanted loss of crystallinity). The resulting materials are characterized using a range of techniques (including powder diffraction, scanning transmission electron microscopy and synchrotron x-ray absorption spectroscopy) and shown to be recrystallizable following dissolution in organic solvent. Their catalytic efficacy is demonstrated using the widely studied carbon monoxide oxidation reaction. This demonstration paves the way for using ultra-small NPs synthesized with POCs as solution-processable, selfassembling porous catalytic materials.

Citation

Jiang, S., Cox, H., Papaioannou, E., Tang, C., Liu, H., Murdoch, B. J., …Beaumont, S. K. (2019). Shape-Persistent Porous Organic Cage Supported Palladium Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials. Nanoscale, 11(31), 14929-14936. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr04553h

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 25, 2019
Online Publication Date Jul 26, 2019
Publication Date Aug 21, 2019
Deposit Date Jul 29, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Nanoscale
Print ISSN 2040-3364
Electronic ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 11
Issue 31
Pages 14929-14936
DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr04553h

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