Investigation into the Catalytic Activity of Porous Platinum Nanostructures
- 29 August 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 29 (36), 11431-11439
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la401302p
Abstract
The catalytic activity of porous platinum nanostructures, viz. platinum nanonets (PtNNs) and platinum nanoballs (PtNBs), synthesized by radiolysis were studied using two model reactions (i) electron transfer reaction between hexacyanoferrate (III) and sodium thiosulfate and (ii) the reduction of p-nitrophenol by sodium borohydride to p-aminophenol. The kinetic investigations were carried out for the platinum nanostructure-catalyzed reactions at different temperatures. The pseudofirst-order rate constant for the electron transfer reaction between hexacyanoferrate (III) and sodium thiosulfate catalyzed by PtNNs and PtNBs at 293 K are (9.1 ± 0.7) × 10(-3) min(-1) and (16.9 ± 0.6) × 10(-3) min(-1), respectively. For the PtNN- and PtNB-catalyzed reduction of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol by sodium borohydride, the pseudofirst-order rate constant was (8.4 ± 0.3) × 10(-2) min(-1) and (12.6 ± 2.5) × 10(-2) min(-1), respectively. The accessible surface area of the PtNNs and PtNBs determined before the reaction are 99 and 110 m(2)/g, respectively. These nanostructures exhibit significantly higher catalytic activity, consistent with the largest accessible surface area reported so far for the solid platinum nanoparticles. The equilibrium of the reactants on the surface of the platinum nanostructures played an important role in the induction time (t0) observed in the reaction. A possible role of structural modifications of PtNBs catalyzed the reaction leading to change in the accessible surface area of PtNBs is being explored to explain the nonlinear behavior in the kinetic curve. The activation energy of the PtNN- and PtNB-catalyzed reduction of p-nitrophenol are 26 and 6.4 kJ/mol, respectively. These observations open up new challenges in the field of material science to design and synthesize platinum nanostructures which could withstand such reaction conditions.Keywords
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