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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 113, Issue 39, Pages 16850-16854Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp907277g
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan
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A rational synthetic method of supported metal catalysts has been proposed. Highly dispersed Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with a mean diameter of ca. 10 nm and a narrow size distribution have been prepared in the presence of 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3-MPA) as a protective reagent. The zeta electric potential of the Ag NPs was negatively charged in the region of pH higher than 5 due to the presence of dissociated carboxylate ion (-COO-), which led to the electric repulsion between Ag NPs. On the other hand, the electric charge gradually increased in the region of pH less than 5 owing to the formation of a protonated carboxyl group (-COOH), which induced the hydrogen bonding between Ag NPs. Such pH-triggered assembly dispersion control enables a strong protocol to deposit Ag NPs with different diameters on the positively charged Al2O3 support by electrostatic attraction. The obtained Ag/Al2O3 materials were characterized by means of UV-vis spectra and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and the catalytic activities were evaluated in the reduction of 4-nitrophenol in water. The reaction rate increased with increasing pH of the prepared colloidal solution, which is correlated with the decreasing size of the Ag NPs. The reduction of 4-nitrophenol is considered as a structure-insensitive reaction, and all surface atoms of the Ag NPs act catalytically as the same active species in this size range by performing calculations on the Ag crystallites.
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