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Plasmon-Driven Photothermal Conversion with Two-Dimensional Ultra-thin PdFe Nanosheets for Ethylene Glycol Electrooxidation

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Pd-based nanostructures have high catalytic activity and good light trapping ability for photothermal catalysis. In this work, PdFe nanosheets (NSs) were synthesized through a hydrothermal method and efficiently catalyzed ethylene glycol electrooxidation reaction (EGOR). Under the irradiation of light, the mass activity of EGOR enhanced 1.78 times (from 4.02 to 7.17 A mg−1) comparing with no light, which was 18 times higher than commercial Pd/C. The high activity is attributed to the combination of high photothermal conversion efficiency and the exposure of high energy facet (111) of PdFe NSs. The effects of Pd/Fe ratio, light intensity, and wavelength were investigated.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21501106), the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars and Qingdao Municipal Science and Technology Commission (16-5-1-86-jch, 19-6-273-cg), and Chemistry Faculty Talents Foundation of Qingdao University of Science and Technology.

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    Di Zhang, Hongxu Gao, Jing Sui, Ning Sui, Manhong Liu & William W. Yu

  2. College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China

    Chaoyang Zhang & Lina Wang

  3. Department of Chemistry and Physics, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, 71115, USA

    William W. Yu

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Zhang Di: design and carrying out most experiments, data analysis, and writing of original draft; Zhang Chaoyang and Gao Hongxu: carrying out parts of experiments and data analysis. Sui Jing and Liu Manhong: data analysis and validation, supporting. Sui Ning, Wang Lina, and Yu William W.: data curation, funding acquisition, formal analysis manuscript revision, and lead.

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Zhang, D., Zhang, C., Gao, H. et al. Plasmon-Driven Photothermal Conversion with Two-Dimensional Ultra-thin PdFe Nanosheets for Ethylene Glycol Electrooxidation. Plasmonics 16, 777–786 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-020-01342-0

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