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Inside Back Cover: Preparation of Palladium Catalysts Supported on Carbon Nanotubes by an Electrostatic Adsorption Method (ChemCatChem 9/2014)
Author(s) -
Zhang Liyun,
Wen Guodong,
Liu Hongyang,
Wang Ning,
Su Dang Sheng
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201490056
Subject(s) - palladium , adsorption , carbon nanotube , catalysis , carboxylate , incipient wetness impregnation , materials science , inorganic chemistry , carboxylic acid , chemistry , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , selectivity , engineering
Palladium on nanotubes The cover picture provided by the group of D. S. Su at the Institute of Metal Research shows how Pd cations are adsorbed on multi‐walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by electrostatic force with carboxylate ions. In their Full Paper on p. 2600 ff., they found that the strong electrostatic adsorption (SEA) method was superior to the traditional incipient wetness impregnation method to prepare highly dispersed supported Pd catalysts. The intrinsic and in situ formed carboxylic acid groups mainly influence the adsorption of Pd cations in the SEA method. The obtained Pd/CNTs catalysts exhibit a very high specific activity for the Suzuki coupling reaction.