We synthesized hierarchical Polystyrene/Polyaniline@Au(PS/PANI@Au) catalysts through a seeded swelling polymerization and in-situ reduction procedure. PS/PANI@Au catalysts possess a core of PS as seed and template, a ...We synthesized hierarchical Polystyrene/Polyaniline@Au(PS/PANI@Au) catalysts through a seeded swelling polymerization and in-situ reduction procedure. PS/PANI@Au catalysts possess a core of PS as seed and template, a PANI shell with fibers and uniform gold nanoparticles on the surface. The configuration changes of the PANI chains resulting from the doping/ dedoping procedure led to various loading amounts of Au nanoparticles. Reduction of 4-nitrophenol was chosen as the probe reaction to evaluate the catalytic activity of supported Au nanocatalysts. The catalytic results indicated that dedoping treatment of the PS/PANI supports provides stronger coordinative ability to metal nanoparticles as well as more –N= groups, which results in a better catalytic performance towards the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51272028)PetroChina Innovation Foundation(2012D-5006-0504)
文摘We synthesized hierarchical Polystyrene/Polyaniline@Au(PS/PANI@Au) catalysts through a seeded swelling polymerization and in-situ reduction procedure. PS/PANI@Au catalysts possess a core of PS as seed and template, a PANI shell with fibers and uniform gold nanoparticles on the surface. The configuration changes of the PANI chains resulting from the doping/ dedoping procedure led to various loading amounts of Au nanoparticles. Reduction of 4-nitrophenol was chosen as the probe reaction to evaluate the catalytic activity of supported Au nanocatalysts. The catalytic results indicated that dedoping treatment of the PS/PANI supports provides stronger coordinative ability to metal nanoparticles as well as more –N= groups, which results in a better catalytic performance towards the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.
