Preparation of Pd/C by Atmospheric-Pressure Ethanol Cold Plasma and Its Preparation Mechanism
Preparation of Pd/C by Atmospheric-Pressure Ethanol Cold Plasma and Its Preparation Mechanism
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常压乙醇冷等离子体制备Pd/C及其制备机理
DOI：
10.3390/nano9101437
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
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影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Di, Lanbo
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作者：
Li, Zhuang;Zhang, Jingsen;Di, Lanbo
Treatment with atmospheric-pressure (AP) hydrogen cold plasma is an effective method for preparing highly active supported metal catalytic materials. However, this technique typically uses H-2 as working gas, which is explosive and difficult to transport. This study proposes the use of PdCl2 as a Pd precursor and activated carbon as the support to fabricate Pd/C catalytic materials (Pd/C-EP-Ar) by using ethanol-which is renewable, easily stored, and safe-combined with AP cold plasma (AP ethanol cold plasma) followed by calcination in Ar gas at 550 degrees C for 2 h. Both Pd/C-EP and Pd/C-HP fabricated using AP ethanol and hydrogen cold plasma (without calcination in Ar gas) respectively, exhibit low CO oxidation reactivity. The activity of Pd/C-EP is lower than Pd/C-HP, which is mainly ascribed to the carbon layer formed by ethanol decomposition during plasma treatment. However, the 100% CO conversion temperature (T-100) of Pd/C-EP-Ar is 140 degrees C, which is similar to that of Pd/C-HP-Ar fabricated using AP hydrogen cold plasma (calcined in Ar gas at 550 degrees C for 2 h). The characterization results of X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy indicated that the carbon layer formed by ethanol decomposition enhanced the interaction of metal nanoparticles to the support, and a high Pd/C atomic ratio was obtained. This was beneficial to the high CO oxidation performance. This work provides a safe method for synthesizing high-performance Pd/C catalytic materials avoiding the use of H-2, which is explosive and difficult to transport.
