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    Branch number matters: Promoting catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol over gold nanostars by raising the number of branches and coating with mesoporous SiO2

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    Ndokoye, P.
    Zhao, Q.
    Li, Xin Yong
    Li, T.
    Tade, Moses
    Wang, Shaobin
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ndokoye, P. and Zhao, Q. and Li, X.Y. and Li, T. and Tade, M. and Wang, S. 2016. Branch number matters: Promoting catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol over gold nanostars by raising the number of branches and coating with mesoporous SiO2. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 477: pp. 1-7.
    Source Title
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jcis.2015.11.032
    ISSN
    0021-9797
    School
    Department of Chemical Engineering
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8924
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    © 2016 Elsevier Inc. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that highly branched gold nanostars (AuNSs) and silica-coated AuNSs (AuNSs@mSiO2) could potentially serve as efficient hydrogenation catalysts. The catalytic activity could be promoted by raising the number of tipped-branches of AuNSs, which reveals that the tips play an important role as active sites. The fabricated sharply-pointed AuNSs benefit the electron transfer from BH4 anions to 4-nitrophenol. Coating AuNSs with mesoporous silica (AuNSs@mSiO2) further enhanced the reduction rate and recyclability, and also contributed to reducing the induction period. The AuNSs@mSiO2 (50-100 nm in diameter) are large enough to be catalytically inactive, but they consist of sharply-pointed tips with the radius of 2.6-3.6 nm, which are rich in coordinately unsaturated sites similar to those of nanoparticles and clusters. Such features in structure and activity would also extend their application range in heterogeneous catalysis.

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