Highly-dispersed and thermally-stable NiO nanoparticles exclusively confined in SBA-15: Blockage-free nanochannels
- 8 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 19 (29), 5193-5200
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b902949d
Abstract
In this work, exclusive formation of metal oxide nanoparticles confined in ordered mesoporous supports was achieved by a hydrophobic encapsulation route illustrated with the NiO/SBA-15 system. Uniform, discrete and thermally-stable NiO nanoparticles are well-distributed in a confined space. The confined nanoparticles possessed high thermal stability, the average size only slightly increasing from 2.83 nm to 3.69 nm after treatment at 900 °C. The NiO-confined nanochannels show no blockages, even though the NiO loading is as high as 18.55 wt%. This blockage-free nanoarchitecture greatly enhances application in catalysis, as demonstrated by the methanation reaction, for which the new catalyst was ∼18.5 times as effective as conventional types.Keywords
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