Investigation of the core-shell interaction in stabilised PdAu nanoparticle catalysts

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Bimetallic nanoparticles are attractive materials due to their novel electronic, magnetic optical and catalytic properties which are distinctly different from those of their monometallic counterparts. The nanoparticles are stabilised by the addition of a polar polymer, that binds to the surface of the nanoparticle. The final size, shape and morphology depends on a number of parameters, such as concentration of metal precursor, sodium borohydride to metal molar ratio, polymer to metal weight ratio and reduction time. A key component of this work, is to understand how the polymer binds to the metal surface. INS spectroscopy is well-suited to this task because the metal nanoparticle is essentially invisible to neutrons, only the organic layer will be visible.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089274
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089274
Provenance
Creator Professor Stewart Parker; Professor Richard Catlow; Professor Gopinathan Sankar; Dr Peter Wells; Professor Graham Hutchings; Dr Nikolaos Dimitratos
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-07-24T07:54:19Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-07-27T11:09:37Z