Investigation of the ligand interaction in thiol-capped Au and Pd nanoparticle catalysts

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Organic stabilisers, such as thiols, thioethers, amines and polymers (i.e. polyvinylalcohol) have been used for the stabilisation of metal nanoparticles. The catalytic performance of polymer- and thiol- capped metallic nanoparticles has been explored and it has been found that apart from the morphological characteristics of the inorganic nanoparticle, the catalytic activity increases when the reactant gets closer to the nanoparticle surface. Thus, the structure and configuration of the surface ligands can play a critical role in catalysis because they determine the accessibility of the reactant to the nanoparticle surface. INS spectroscopy will help us to extract reliable information about the influence of ligand capping in catalysis.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091117
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091117
Provenance
Creator Professor Stewart Parker; Professor Richard Catlow; Dr Peter Wells; Dr Nikolaos Dimitratos; Dr Antonios Kanaras; Ms Catherine Brookes; Mr Wilm Jones
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-10-06T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-11-19T15:34:04Z