Nickel foam supported porous copper oxide catalysts with noble metal-like activity for aqueous phase reactions.

ABSTRACT: Contiguous metal foams offer a multitude of advantages over conventional powders as supports for nanostructured heterogeneous catalysts; most critically a preformed 3-D porous framework ensuring full directional coverage of supported catalyst, and intrinsic ease of handling and recyclability. Nonetheless, metal foams remain comparatively underused in thermal catalysis compared to more conventional supports such as amorphous carbon, metal oxides, zeolites and more recently MOFs. Herein, we demonstrate a facile preparation of highly-reactive, robust, and easy to handle Ni foam-supported Cu-based metal catalysts. The highly sustainable synthesis requires no specialized equipment, no surfactants or additive redox reagents, uses water as solvent, and CuCl₂(H₂O)₂

SUBMITTER: Shultz LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9373473 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature