Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2013, Article ID 602602, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/602602
Graphene Supported Pt/Ni Nanoparticles as Magnetically Separable Nanocatalysts
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology, School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Received 12 March 2013; Accepted 10 September 2013
Academic Editor: Teng Li
Copyright © 2013 Ru Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Efficient recovery of nanocatalysts, especially the graphene supported noble metal catalysts, is a challenge. In this study, we report a simple one-step route to prepare the graphene supported Pt/Ni nanocatalysts with ideal superparamagnetic properties. We demonstrated that they had excellent catalytic activities in the catalytic reduction of aromatic nitro compounds and could be easily separated from the reaction mixtures by applying an external magnetic field.