Journal
ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 5567-5573Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b01266
Keywords
molecular layer deposition; Zn-organic-inorganic hybrid film; Cu-ZnO interface; hydrogenation; nanoparticles; nanocatalysts
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Funding
- National Natural Science Funds of China [21403271, 21173248, 21376256]
- Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hundred Talents Program of Shanxi Province
- Projects of the State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion of China [2014BWZ004]
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This paper describes a molecular layer deposition (MLD)-assisted route for the preparation of Cu-ZnO catalysts used in the hydrogenation of levulinic acid to produce gamma-valerolactone. A Cu precursor supported on multiwalled carbon nanotubes was coated with Zn-polyurea organic-inorganic hybrid films via MLD first, and the catalyst was obtained after calcination and reduction under mild conditions. The produced catalysts exhibited remarkably enhanced selectivity, efficiency, and stability due to the created Cu-ZnO interface sites ((CuZn)-Zn-0) and the cooperative effect between (CuZn)-Zn-0 and Cu+. The ratio of (CuZn)-Zn-0 sites could be simply modified by changing the MLD cycle number. The correlation between catalytic activity and the ratio of different Cu species ((CuZn)-Zn-0, Cu-0, and Cu+) suggests that (CuZn)-Zn-0 is the main active site and responsible for the remarkably enhancing catalytic activity and low apparent activation energy.
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