Mohamed S. Selim,Ping Jing Mo,Yu Ping Zhang,Zhifeng Hao,Hongli Wen
Ceramic one-dimensional particles are fascinating nanomaterials for sustainable future industries. Nanorods of γ-Al 2 O 3 with single crystallinity and 10 nm diameter regime were newly developed through solvothermal procedure between AlCl 3 ·6H 2 O, NaOH, and sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate at 200 °C for 24 h. Controlling the pH values, reaction time, temperature, and effect of surfactant during the solvothermal reaction was studied to control the morphology and structure of nanorods. The solvothermal procedure for preparing γ-AlOOH nanorods followed lamellar growth, assembly, and ripening routes. The γ-AlOOH nanorods were converted to γ-Al 2 O 3 through calcination reaction at 500 °C for 3 h. The produced γ-Al 2 O 3 nanorods were 10 nm average width, 100–200 nm average length, and exposed with [101] orientation and a linear structure. FTIR, HRTEM , FESEM, XRD , and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy methods were used for characterizing the prepared nanomaterials . New features and applied fields are predictable for the designed γ-AlOOH and γ-Al 2 O 3 nanorods.
A series of nanorod-like porous Pd/γ-Al 2 O 3 catalysts with controllable textural properties and enhanced catalytic performance in 2-ethyl-9,10-anthraquinone (eAQ) hydrogenation for H 2 O 2 preparation were successfully prepared via a facile sol–gel method using aluminum isopropoxide as aluminum precursor and eAQ as structure directing agent, sequential calcination and impregnation process with Na 2 PdCl 4 solution. The physicochemical properties of the catalysts obtained with different addition amounts of eAQ were comparatively characterized by XRD, TG–DSC, BET, TEM, CO-TPR, H 2 -TPR and H 2 –O 2 titration. The results show that addition of eAQ can not only effectively control the textural properties (surface area, pore volume and average pore size) of the catalysts, but also lower their reduction temperature of active metal. Importantly, the catalyst obtained with an addition amount of 4 wt% eAQ shows the highest hydrogenation efficiency of 10.28 g·L −1 , which is 37.3% higher than 7.49 g·L −1 of the catalyst obtained without eAQ.