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XAFS Characterization of Au Nanoparticles Supported on Sm-CeO2
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Bando, Kyoko K. Chowdhury, Biswajit Roy Mandal, Sandip Maity, Sudip |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Introduction In the southern and eastern Asian countries, efficient utilization of abundant biomass resources could be a key technology for not only sustainable development but also mitigation of CO2 emission. Selective oxidation of alcohols is one of the important techniques for conversion of biomass to useful chemical substances. In addition to that, if molecular oxygen can be utilized as an oxidant material, that would make an environmentally friendly and highly economical chemical process. It is well known that supported Au catalysts show unique reactivity toward selective oxidation reactions with molecular oxygen, and it is also reported that they show high performance in alcohol oxidation. Therefore, we applied the supported Au catalysts to selective oxidation reactions of benzyl alcohol with molecular oxygen, and found that Sm promoted CeO2 supported Au catalysts show high activity in them. In this work, we conducted XAFS analysis of Au/Sm-CeO2 to elucidate the structure of active Au sites. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://pfwww.kek.jp/acr2010pdf/part_b/pf10b074.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |