A family of metal-organic frameworks exhibiting size-selective catalysis with encapsulated noble-metal nanoparticles

• Main Authors: Zhang, Weina, Lu, Guang, Cui, Chenlong, Liu, Yayuan, Li, Shaozhou, Yan, Wenjin, Xing, Chong, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Yang, Yanhui, Huo, Fengwei
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering::Chemical processes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98952; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19622
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The encapsulation of noble-metal nanoparticles (NPs) in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with carboxylic acid ligands, the most extensive branch of the MOF family, gives NP/MOF composites that exhibit excellent shape-selective catalytic performance in olefin hydrogenation, aqueous reaction in the reduction of 4-nitrophenol, and faster molecular diffusion in CO oxidation. The strategy of using functionalized cavities of MOFs as hosts for different metal NPs looks promising for the development of high-performance heterogeneous catalysts.