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Trimetallic Au/Pt/Rh Nanoparticles as Highly Active Catalysts for Aerobic Glucose Oxidation

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This paper reports the findings of an investigation of the correlations between the catalytic activity for aerobic glucose oxidation and the composition of Au/Pt/Rh trimetallic nanoparticles (TNPs) with average diameters of less than 2.0 nm prepared by rapid injection of NaBH4. The prepared TNPs were characterized by UV–Vis, TEM, and HR-TEM. The catalytic activity of the alloy-structured TNPs for aerobic glucose oxidation is several times higher than that of Au monometallic nanoparticles with nearly the same particle size. The catalytic activities of the TNP catalysts were dependent not only on the composition, but also on the electronic structure. The high catalytic activities of the Au/Pt/Rh TNPs can be ascribed to the formed negative-charged Au atoms due to electron donation of Rh neighboring atoms acting as catalytically active sites for aerobic glucose oxidation.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program, 51272188, 51472184 and 51472185), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, China (Contract No. 2013CFA086), and Foreign Cooperation Projects in Science and Technology of Hubei Province, China (Contract No. 2013BHE002).

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, P.R. China

    Haijun Zhang (Professor), Yingnan Cao (Master Student) & Shaowei Zhang (Professor)

  2. College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, P.R. China

    Lilin Lu (Lecturer)

  3. College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P.R. China

    Zhong Cheng (Lecturer)

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Zhang, H., Cao, Y., Lu, L. et al. Trimetallic Au/Pt/Rh Nanoparticles as Highly Active Catalysts for Aerobic Glucose Oxidation. Metall Mater Trans B 46, 523–530 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-014-0219-4

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