Issue 11, 2018

Engineering active sites on reduced graphene oxide by hydrogen plasma irradiation: mimicking bifunctional metal/supported catalysts in hydrogenation reactions

Abstract

H2 plasma has been used to generate carbon vacancies on reduced graphene oxide to increase its catalytic activity as a hydrogenation catalyst. A relationship between the power of the plasma treatment and the exposure time with the activity of the material was observed for C[double bond, length as m-dash]C double bond hydrogenation. The activity data in the case of 1-octene, showing skeletal isomerization besides hydrogenation, indicate that H2 plasma treatment can introduce hydrogenating and acid sites rendering a bifunctional catalyst that is reminiscent of the activity of noble metals supported on acid supports.

Graphical abstract: Engineering active sites on reduced graphene oxide by hydrogen plasma irradiation: mimicking bifunctional metal/supported catalysts in hydrogenation reactions

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Nov 2017
Accepted
26 Apr 2018
First published
27 Apr 2018

Green Chem., 2018,20, 2611-2623

Engineering active sites on reduced graphene oxide by hydrogen plasma irradiation: mimicking bifunctional metal/supported catalysts in hydrogenation reactions

A. Primo, A. Franconetti, M. Magureanu, N. B. Mandache, C. Bucur, C. Rizescu, B. Cojocaru, V. I. Parvulescu and H. Garcia, Green Chem., 2018, 20, 2611 DOI: 10.1039/C7GC03397D

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