Highly efficient hydrogen generation from formic acid using a reduced graphene oxide-supported AuPd nanoparticle catalyst

Xinchun Yang; Pradip Pachfule; Yao Chen; Nobuko Tsumori; Qiang Xu

doi:10.1039/c5cc10311h

Highly efficient hydrogen generation from formic acid using a reduced graphene oxide-supported AuPd nanoparticle catalyst

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Mar 18;52(22):4171-4. doi: 10.1039/c5cc10311h.

Authors

Xinchun Yang¹, Pradip Pachfule², Yao Chen², Nobuko Tsumori³, Qiang Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. [email protected] [email protected] and Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Nada Ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
² National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. [email protected] [email protected].
³ Toyama National College of Technology, 13, Hongo-machi, Toyama, 939-8630, Japan.

PMID: 26907192
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc10311h

Abstract

Highly dispersed AuPd alloy nanoparticles have been successfully immobilized on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) using a facile non-noble metal sacrificial method, which exhibit the highest activity at 323 K (turnover frequency, 4840 h(-1)) for hydrogen generation without CO impurity from the formic acid/sodium formate system.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't