Base Metal Catalyzed Graphitization of Cellulose: A Combined Raman Spectroscopy, Temperature-Dependent X-ray Diffraction and High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Study
Base Metal Catalyzed Graphitization of Cellulose: A Combined Raman Spectroscopy, Temperature-Dependent X-ray Diffraction and High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Study
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00477
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发表时间:
2015-05-14
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Jenneskens, Leonardus W.
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作者:
Hoekstra, Jacco;Beale, Andrew M.;Jenneskens, Leonardus W.
Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) spheres homogeneously loaded with the nitrate salts of copper, nickel, cobalt, or iron are excellent model systems to establish the temperature at which highly dispersed base metal nanoparticles are formed as well as to establish the temperature at which catalytic graphitization occurs during pyrolysis in the temperature regime T = 500-800 degrees C. Temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction (TD-XRD) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) showed that the base metal nanoparticles are smoothly formed from related base metal oxides via carbothermal reduction (fcc copper, T < 500 degrees C; fcc nickel, T < 500 degrees C; fcc cobalt, T = 570 degrees C; bcc iron, T = 700 degrees C). Moreover, it is shown that at distinct temperatures nickel (T >= 800 degrees C), cobalt (T >= 800 degrees C), and iron (T >= 715 degrees C) nanoparticles catalyze the conversion of the amorphous carbon support into ribbons of turbostratic graphitic carbon according to Raman spectroscopy and TD-XRD. Copper, however, was found to be inactive. Furthermore, HRTEM revealed that nickel (500 degrees C