Use of novel materials for the development of sustainable catalysts

该项目将研究新型催化剂载体和技术的使用，使富含稀土的过渡金属能够加入到PGM纳米颗粒催化剂中。该项目的一个主要目标是使PGM催化更可持续。我们计划通过使用铁和铜金属中心改进PGM纳米颗粒来实现这一目标。为此，我们将研究Fe(0)/Fe(II)和Cu(I)/Cu(II)盐。顺磁性金属中心的使用将使PGM纳米颗粒催化剂能够回收和重复使用。此外，我们预计这些富含稀土的金属将改变和提高PGM催化剂的效率，使较低的PGM催化剂负载量能够用于改善可持续的化学合成应用和工艺。

The project will investigate the use of novel catalyst supports and technologies that enable the incorporation of earth abundant transition metals into PGM nanoparticle catalysts. A primary aim of the project is to make PGM catalysis more sustainable. We plan to achieve that through amelioration of PGM nanoparticles using iron and copper metal centres. We will investigate Fe(0)/Fe(II) and Cu(I)/Cu(II) salts for this purpose. The use of paramagnetic metal centres will allow PGM nanoparticle catalysts to be recovered and reused. Moreover, we anticipate that these earth abundant metals will alter and improve PGM catalyst efficiency, enabling lower PGM catalyst loadings to be used for the betterment of sustainable chemical synthesis applications and processes.