Fabrication of a palladium nanoparticle/graphene nanosheet hybrid via sacrifice of a copper template and its application in catalytic oxidation of formic acid

Hong Zhao; Jun Yang; Lei Wang; Chungui Tian; Baojiang Jiang; Honggang Fu

doi:10.1039/c0cc04432f

Fabrication of a palladium nanoparticle/graphene nanosheet hybrid via sacrifice of a copper template and its application in catalytic oxidation of formic acid

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Feb 21;47(7):2014-6. doi: 10.1039/c0cc04432f. Epub 2011 Jan 7.

Authors

Hong Zhao¹, Jun Yang, Lei Wang, Chungui Tian, Baojiang Jiang, Honggang Fu

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, P. R China.

PMID: 21218219
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc04432f

Abstract

Small and highly dispersed palladium nanoparticles supported on graphene nanosheets were fabricated via a strategy of etching a copper template with Pd(2+). The obtained hybrid exhibited significant catalytic activity for formic acid oxidation.