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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 136, Issue 10, Pages 3937-3945Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja412429f
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- county council of Poitou-Charentes (France)
- DOE-BES EPSCoR Implementation Award: Materials for Energy Conversion
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Highly active self-supported PdxBi catalysts are synthesized by the sacrificial support method. Self-supported PdxBi catalysts have a porous nanostructured morphology with high surface areas (in the range from 75 to 100 m(2) g(-1)), making PdxBi a state-of-the-art catalyst. Pd4Bi displays the highest activity toward glycerol oxidation. In situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy highlights the unique catalytic behavior of self-supported PdxBi materials due to their particular structure and morphology. The confinement of reactants and intermediates in pores acting as nanoreactors is responsible for the high selectivity as a function of the electrode potential: aldehyde and ketone at low potentials, hydroxypyruvate at moderate potentials, and CO2 at high potentials. Moreover, the selectivity depends on the electrode history: it is different for the positive potential scan direction than for the reverse direction, where the catalyst becomes selective toward the production of carboxylates.
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