Interfacing with silica boosts the catalysis of copper

Chaofa Xu; Guangxu Chen; Yun Zhao; Pengxin Liu; Xinping Duan; Lin Gu; Gang Fu; Youzhu Yuan; Nanfeng Zheng

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05757-6

Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Interfacing with silica boosts the catalysis of copper

Chaofa Xu,
Guangxu Chen,
Yun Zhao,
Pengxin Liu,
Xinping Duan,
Lin Gu,
Gang Fu,
Youzhu Yuan,
Nanfeng Zheng

Affiliations

Chaofa Xu: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Guangxu Chen: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Yun Zhao: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Pengxin Liu: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Xinping Duan: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Lin Gu: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gang Fu: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Youzhu Yuan: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Nanfeng Zheng: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, and National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols–Ethers–Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05757-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Metal-support interaction plays an important role in heterogeneous catalysis, but silica has been rarely reported as an effective support to create active metal-support interfaces for promoting catalytic reactions. Here, the authors discover that Cu/SiO2 interface creates an exceptional effect to promote catalytic hydrogenation of esters.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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