Quansheng Wu,Songhua Zhou,Chengbing Fu,Jiesong Zhang,Bo Chen,Hongyan Pan,Qian Lin
For the mono-metal Pd based catalysts, the O–O bond in O2 and H2O2 is easily dissociated due to the higher energy sites of Pd, which decreases the selectivity and productivity of H2O2. To address this issue, non-noble metals M (M = Sn, Fe, Co, Ni) were doped into palladium precursors to create a series of yolk–shell structure bimetallic catalysts Pd–M@HCS (H = hollow; C = carbon; S = sphere) with Pd–M as the core and porous carbon as the shell. The results indicated that the catalyst Pd–M@HCS doped with Sn, Fe, Co, and Ni has a weak dissociation ability for O2, and both the adsorption and dissociation ability for H2 are improved. Of these catalysts, the catalyst Pd–Sn@HCS gives the best performance, which is benefited by the suitable Pd–Sn nanoparticle size and the best Pd2+/Pd0 ratio. The influence of the nPd/nSn ratio in the Pd–Sn@HCS system on catalyst performance was further explored, and the findings revealed that Pd–Sn@HCS had the best catalytic activity and stability when the nPd/nSn ratio was 2. The catalyst's H2 conversion, H2O2 selectivity, and productivity were 35%, 97%, and 3961 mmol gPd−1 h−1, respectively. After 10 cycles, the H2O2 productivity of this catalyst remained at 92.1%, which was greater than the H2O2 productivity of the typical Pd-based catalyst Pd/C, which stayed at 37% under the same conditions.
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), as a clean and green oxidant, is widely used in many fields. The direct synthesis of H2O2(DSHP) from H2and O2has attracted most research interest because it relates to a facile, environmentally friendly, and economic process. Yolk–shell Pd-M@HCS (hollow carbon sphere) (M = Co, Ni, Cu) nanocatalysts, in which the bimetal nanoparticle is the core and porous carbon works as the shell layer, are reported in this work. It was found that catalytic activities were enhanced because of the introduced M metals. Additionally, the different mass ratios of Pd to Co (mPd/mCo) were further investigated to improve the catalytic performance for the DSHP. When mPd/mCo was 4.4, the prepared Pd-Co@HCS-(4.4) catalyst, with an average Pd nanoparticle size of 7.30 nm, provided the highest H2O2selectivity of 87% and H2O2productivity of 1996 mmolgPd−1·h−1, which were increased by 24% and 253%, respectively, compared to Pd@HCS.Keywords:direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide;Pd-based catalyst;yolk–shell structure