Synthesis and surface chemistry of nano silver particles

In this report, we present a simple wet chemical route to synthesize nano-sized silver particles, and their surface properties are discussed in detail. Silver nano particles of the size 40–80 nm are formed in the process of oxidation of glucose to gluconic acid by amine in the presence of silver nitrate, and the gluconic acid caps the nano silver particle. The presence of gluconic acid on the surface of nano silver particles was confirmed by XPS and FTIR studies. As the nano silver particle is encapsulated by gluconic acid, there was no surface oxidation, as confirmed by XPS studies. The nano silver particles have also been studied for their formation, structure, morphology and size using UV–Visible spectroscopy, XRD and SEM. Further, the antibacterial properties of these nano particles show promising results for E. Coli. The influence of the alkaline medium towards the particle size and yield was also studied by measuring the pH of the reaction for DEA, NaOH and Na₂CO₃.     

Eco‐compatible three component strategies for C‐S bond formation in thioether and S‐aryl‐carbamodithioate compounds catalyzed by copper(II) nanoparticles supported on modified AlPO4

One‐pot and three components C‐S bond formation reactions in thioethers and S‐aryl‐carbamodithioates have been catalyzed by a copper heterogeneous nano‐catalyst supported on modified AlPO₄ under different reaction conditions. The above‐mentioned nano‐catalyst has been characterized by various techniques such as SEM, TEM, AFM, XRD, FT‐IR, UV–Vis, CV, BET, TGA, ICP and XPS spectrometry and its particle size was estimated to be between 60–110 nm. Finally, the reusability of the catalyst up to ten cycles without any significant leaching is one of the outstanding properties of the catalyst.     

纳米ZSM-5用于石脑油催化裂化的最新进展(英文)

综述了纳米ZSM-5在石脑油催化裂解中的应用.比较了纳米ZSM-5和毫米级ZSM-5对产物选择性、反应转化率和催化剂寿命的影响.纳米ZSM-5的应用不仅延长了催化剂寿命,而且表现出更稳定的轻质烯烃选择性.讨论了反应条件,如温度和进料对纳米ZSM-5催化性能的影响,发现高温和线式烷烃作为进料时可提高轻质烯烃的选择性和反应转化率.     

Preparation of nickel-mesoporous materials and their application to the hydrodechlorination of chlorinated organic compounds

Mesoporous materials have attracted considerable attention for use as a catalyst or a catalyst support due to their remarkable textural properties such as high surface area and large pore volume with a narrow pore size distribution. Many efforts have been made to design mesoporous materials for use in heterogeneous catalyst systems. Recent progress and results regarding the preparation of nickel-mesoporous materials and their application to the hydrodechlorination of chlorinated organic compounds were discussed in this review. Mesoporous materials were used as a support for nickel catalyst or a nickel-incorporated mesoporous catalytic material in this work. Two research areas were described and discussed in this review. One is the preparation of mesoporous alumina-supported nickel catalysts and their application to the hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloropropane and o-dichlorobenzene. The other is the preparation of mesoporous silica-supported nickel catalysts and their application to the hydrodechlorination of 1,1,2-trichloroethane and chlorobenzene.     

Photochemical diode model of Pt/TiO2 particle and its photocatalytic activity

The photocatalytic properties of a powdered semiconductor loaded with metal catalyst are discussed using a photochemical diode model. The rate of hydrogen evolution depends on particle size and correlates with irreversibility of oxidation of reactants. Only a small amount of Pt (smaller than 1/100 monolayer on TiO₂) is required to produce a remarkable effect on photocatalytic activity.     

高比表面介孔MoVTeNbO催化剂的制备及其催化性能

采用水热法添加模板剂十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(CTAB)和配合剂柠檬酸(CA)制备了Mo VTe Nb O系列催化剂,并将其应用于丙烯一步氧化制备丙烯酸的反应.结果表明,CA的添加量对催化剂的形貌、孔结构、比表面积及催化性能具有明显的影响.当n(CA)/n(Mo)=0.36时,Mo VTe Nb O催化剂为介孔纳米催化剂,其平均孔径为4.9 nm,具有较高的比表面积(37.8 m2/g)和较小的催化剂晶粒(粒径范围为10~16 nm),与常规水热法制备的催化剂相比,Mo VTe Nb O介孔纳米催化剂的晶粒变小、催化性能得到了显著提高,丙烯一步氧化制丙烯酸的转化率可由53.9%提高至71.2%,丙烯酸收率可提高到45.8%.     

纳米氧化锆的制备与应用

综述了纳米ZrO2粉体的制备与应用,展望了其发展前景。目前,纳米ZrO2粉体的制备方法以化学法为主。文章介绍了共沉淀法、金属醇盐法、溶胶-凝胶法、反胶团法、水热法、溶剂蒸发法、共蒸馏法及化学气相法等制备方法,并对上述各种方法作出评价。文章还介绍了纳米ZrO2粉体的应用研究,将其分散于陶瓷基体中以降低陶瓷的烧结温度,提高陶瓷的韧性和强度;将纳米ZrO2用作催化剂,在催化加氢及土壤固氮等方面呈现良好的催化活性和选择性。     

Preparation of Nano‐bismuth with Different Particle Sizes and the Size Dependent Electrochemical Thermodynamics

Nano‐bismuth has excellent electrochemical properties. However, it is still unclear how the particle size of nano‐bismuth influences its electrochemical thermodynamic properties. In this paper, spherical bismuth nanoparticles with different particle sizes were prepared by solvothermal method; the electrode potentials, the temperature coefficients of the electrode potentials and the thermodynamic functions of reaction for nano‐bismuth electrodes with different particle sizes at different temperatures were determined; and the effects of particle size on the electrode potential, the temperature coefficient and the thermodynamic functions were discussed. The experimental results show that particle size of bismuth nanoparticles has a significant influences on the electrochemical thermodynamic properties. The standard electrode potential of the nano‐bismuth electrode with a diameter of 39.9 nm was 0.009 V lower than that of the ordinary standard electrode (0.308 V); the temperature coefficient of the electrode potential with a diameter of 39.9 nm was nearly double that of 85.9 nm. With the particle sizes decrease, the standard molar Gibbs energy of reaction, the standard molar enthalpy of reaction, the standard molar entropy of reaction, the molar reversible reaction heat and the temperature coefficient increase; and these quantities are linearly related to the reciprocal of the particle diameter.     

功能纳米材料的化学控制合成、组装、结构与性能

维度限制使得纳米材料具有独特的物理和化学性质,如何对纳米构造单元的结构进行调控,并最终将纳米效应在宏观尺度上体现是当今纳米科技面临的挑战性问题,纳米材料的化学控制合成方法学、组装、结构与性能的研究是解决上述问题的基础．这篇综述文章从四个方面,分别介绍了单分散纳米晶以及纳米管、纳米线、空心纳米微球等系列低维纳米结构在合成方法与技术、“自下而上”的组装、基于微结构的性能表征与应用探索等领域取得的研究进展,试图总结出其中的规律性,同时也展现了纳米科学与技术的魅力和广阔的发展前景．     

Intrinsically Porous Polymer Protects Catalytic Gold Particles for Enzymeless Glucose Oxidation

The enzymeless glucose oxidation process readily occurs on nano‐gold electrocatalyst at pH 7, but it is highly susceptible to poisoning (competitive binding), for example from protein or chloride. Is it shown here that gold nanoparticle catalyst can be protected against poisoning by a polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM‐EA‐TB with BET surface area 1027 m² g^?1). This PIM material when protonated, achieves a triple catalyst protection effect by (i) size selective repulsion of larger protein molecules (albumins) and (ii) membrane ion selection effects, and (iii) membrane ion activity effects. PIM materials allow “environmental control” to be introduced in electrocatalytic processes.     

纳米Cr2O3的制备、表征及催化性能

首次采用溶胶-凝胶法与共沸蒸馏法耦合技术制备了纳米Cr2O3粉体，并运用BET、TEM、XRD、FT-IR、XPS及H2-TPR对其进行表征，同时采用CO2氧化乙烷脱氢制乙烯反应作为探针反应，考察了纳米Cr2O3的催化性能。首次发现纳米ErgO3的FT-IR谱出现了蓝移现象，并且630cm^-1附近的伸缩振动峰强度增强。初步探讨了纳米氧化物的IR蓝移和红移的原因，指出晶型是影响纳米氧化物红外光谱特征的重要因素。实验结果表明纳米Cr2O3上乙烷和CO2转化率均明显高于常规Cr2O3催化剂；在700℃下，乙烷转化率高达77．1％，而乙烯产率达到了58．98％。     

Model catalysts of supported Au nanoparticles and mass-selected clusters

In surface science, much effort has gone into obtaining a deeper understanding of the size-selectivity of nanocatalysts. In this article, electronic and chemical properties of various model catalysts consisting of Au are reported. Au supported by oxide surfaces becomes inert towards chemisorption and oxidation as the particle size became smaller than a critical size (2-3 nm). The inertness of these small Au nanoparticles is due to the electron-deficient nature of smaller Au nanoparticles, which is a result of metal-substrate charge transfer. Properties of Au clusters smaller than ～20 atoms were shown to be non-scalable, i.e., every atom can drastically change the chemical properties of the clusters. Moreover, clusters with the same size can show dissimilar properties on various substrates. These recent endeavours show that the activity of a catalyst can be tuned by varying the substrate or by varying the cluster size on an atom-by-atom basis.     

Graphene oxide nanocolloids

Graphene oxide (GO) nanocolloids-sheets with lateral dimension smaller than 100 nm-were synthesized by chemical exfoliation of graphite nanofibers, in which the graphene planes are coin-stacked along the length of the nanofibers. Since the upper size limit is predetermined by the diameter of the nanofiber precursor, the size distribution of the GO nanosheets is much more uniform than that of common GO synthesized from graphite powders. The size can be further tuned by the oxidation time. Compared to the micrometer-sized, regular GO sheets, nano GO has very similar spectroscopic characteristics and chemical properties but very different solution properties, such as surface activity and colloidal stability. Due to higher charge density originating from their higher edge-to-area ratios, aqueous GO nanocolloids are significantly more stable. Dispersions of GO nanocolloids can sustain high-speed centrifugation and remain stable even after chemical reduction, which would result in aggregates for regular GO. Therefore, nano GO can act as a better dispersing agent for insoluble materials (e.g., carbon nanotubes) in water, creating a more stable colloidal dispersion.     

水溶性Fe3O4磁性纳米催化剂的合成及应用

利用对氨基苯磺酸氟硼酸重氮盐与Fe₃O₄磁性纳米粒子(MNPs)的偶联反应,非常方便地制备出表面含有磺酸基的Fe₃O₄磁性纳米粒子。 透射电子显微镜(TEM) 测试结果表明,粒子的平均粒径在 20 nm左右。 溶解性实验表明,该纳米粒子具有较好的水溶性,但不溶于常用的有机溶剂,因此可利用其磁性回收并循环使用。 将该纳米粒子用于催化羧酸与醇的酯化反应,产物酯的收率为71%~86%。 催化剂在酯化反应中的最优使用量为1.5%(质量分数)。 同时,该催化剂可催化果糖合成5-羟甲基糠醛(HMF),收率为32%。     

Molecular dynamics study of the catalyst particle size dependence on carbon nanotube growth

The molecular dynamics method, based on an empirical potential energy surface, was used to study the effect of catalyst particle size on the growth mechanism and structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The temperature for nanotube nucleation (800-1100 K), which occurs on the surface of the cluster, is similar to that used in catalyst chemical vapor deposition experiments, and the growth mechanism, which is described within the vapor-liquid-solid model, is the same for all cluster sizes studied here (iron clusters containing between 10 and 200 atoms were simulated). Large catalyst particles, which contain at least 20 iron atoms, nucleate SWNTs that have a far better tubular structure than SWNTs nucleated from smaller clusters. In addition, the SWNTs that grow from the larger clusters have diameters that are similar to the cluster diameter, whereas the smaller clusters, which have diameters less than 0.5 nm, nucleate nanotubes that are approximately 0.6-0.7 nm in diameter. This is in agreement with the experimental observations that SWNT diameters are similar to the catalyst particle diameter, and that the narrowest free-standing SWNT is 0.6-0.7 nm.     

Au/ZrO2催化剂中ZrO2的尺寸效应:1,3-丁二烯加氢反应

在不同温度(673～1073K)下,于流动N2气中焙烧ZrO(OH)2醇(乙醇)凝胶,制备了不同尺寸的ZrO2-AN纳米晶(6～30nm).采用沉积-沉淀方法制备了相应的质量分数为0.7%的Au/ZrO2-AN催化剂.用XRD,XRF,TEM/HRTEM,EDS,N2吸附和1,3-丁二烯加氢反应对ZrO2-AN和Au/ZrO2-AN催化剂进行了表征.结果表明,在所有的Au/ZrO2-AN样品中,Au粒子的平均尺寸为4～5nm,ZrO2-AN的颗粒大小没有因为负载Au粒子而发生改变.1,3-丁二烯在Au/ZrO2-AN催化剂催化下能以100%的选择性进行加氢反应生成单烯烃.随着Au/ZrO2-AN催化剂中ZrO2-AN纳米晶尺寸的增加或“载体”焙烧温度的升高,1,3-丁二烯的转化率明显降低;1-丁烯的选择性先增加后减小,2-丁烯中反/顺异构体的摩尔比在0.5～1.0的范围内逐渐增大,TEM/HRTEM表征结果清楚地表明,Au/ZrO2-AN催化剂中Au粒子与ZrO2-AN颗粒接触界面/周边随ZrO2-AN颗粒尺寸的减小而明显增加,这很可能是含有更小尺寸ZrO2-AN纳米粒子的Au/ZrO2-AN催化剂具有更高的催化活性的重要原因.     

硫酸钡粒径调控剂C-N-CDs的制备、应用及机理

通过柠檬酸与乙二胺水热反应制备羧基、氨基修饰碳点(C-N-CDs),其具有优异的硫酸钡粒径调控作用：可使沉淀法制备的BaSO₄颗粒平均粒径减小到45.3 nm,小于同等条件下传统配位剂乙二胺四乙酸(EDTA)调控制备的BaSO₄颗粒平均粒径(73.7nm)。将所制备的纳米BaSO₄样品添加进聚乙烯醇(PVA)薄膜中可增强薄膜的力学性能。研究发现C-N-CDs的化学性能、表面电性、空间位阻是影响BaSO₄粒径大小的重要因素。     

Preferential oxidation of CO in H2 over Co3O4-CeO2 catalysts

The impact of nanoscience on heterogeneous catalysis is discussed with the emphasis on enantioselective hydrogenation. Experimental data on liquid-phase hydrogenation reactions of 1-phenyl-1,2-propanedione are presented, demonstrating that the size of nanoparticles should account for the explanation of activity, regio- and enantioselectivity.     

纳米催化剂的理性设计与精准调控

纳米催化在现代化学工业中起着至关重要的作用.当前社会的高速发展,促使人们在不同领域探索新型纳米催化剂引导技术革命以解决日益严峻的能源及环境危机.要实现在原子水平上精确调控并对催化剂结构进行设计以开发高效的纳米催化剂,必须深入了解其中的基本物理化学理论,如活性中心的配位结构以及催化剂与吸附质之间的作用规律等.然而,受当前...     

Photoluminescence of Diphenylalanine Peptide Nano/Microstructures: From Mechanisms to Applications

Diphenylalanine (Phe‐Phe, FF) molecules, which can self‐assemble into highly ordered nano/microstructures, have increasingly aroused intense interests due to their special optical properties. In this review, recent advances in photoluminescence (PL) of supramolecular architectures of FF‐based peptide and the underlying mechanisms are highlighted. Mainly deep ultraviolet emission at around 285 nm and/or blue emission at ≈450 nm are observed in various FF peptide structures and its derivatives, which are primarily interpreted by quantum confinement effects, shallow radiative traps, and electron delocalization via hydrogen bonds in β‐ sheet structures. Furthermore, current applications of such fluorescent peptide nano/microstructures are also reviewed here, e.g., probing the number of water molecules confined in FF, temperature sensing, and visualization of deep ultraviolet beam. Yet, the PL mechanism is still under fierce debate and the application based on fluorescence is constantly under exploration. Thus, this review is endeavored to boost future explorations on the PL of the bioinspired FF peptide nano/microstructures.