Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5145317 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2017 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Addressed herein, we report a reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheet coupled with polyaniline (PANI) for platinum (Pt) nanoparticles as supporting materials. The PANI-coupled rGO (PANI@rGO) nanosheet is prepared by a simple one-step chemical assembly strategy, and Pt nanoparticles are anchored on the support of PANI@rGO through the reaction of PANI with a platinum salt. The designed PANI efficiently exposes the surface of rGO sheets and stabilizes metal nanoparticles. Consequently, the Pt@PANI-rGO catalyst exhibits good reusability, durability and high catalytic performance for dimethylamine-borane dehydrogenation reaction. The structure morphology and properties of Pt@PANI-rGO NPs were characterized by using several different techniques such as UV-Vis, XPS, TEM, XRD and HR-TEM-EDX analyses. This newly prepared catalyst can be reused again at low concentrations and temperature. They showed a high turnover frequency (42.94 hâ1) and low Ea value of 15.1 ± 2 kJ/mol for DMAB dehydrocoupling in the ambient conditions. The proposed nano architecture offers a new pathway to promote the performances of rGO in various applications; moreover, this work provides a powerful and universal synthetic strategy for such an architecture.
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Authors
Betül Sen, Sultan Kuzu, Enes Demir, Süleyman Akocak, Fatih Sen,