title: Facile approach to prepare Pd nanoarray catalysts within porous alumina templates on macroscopic scales.
abstract: The separation and reuse of nanocatalysts remains a major challenge. Herein, we report a novel approach to prepare palladium nanowire array catalysts by reducting PdCl2 in the pores of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates with backside Al sheets via a hydrothermal process. Suzuki coupling reactions and 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) reduction reactions were employed to study the catalytic activity of the nanocatalysts. The nanocatalysts demonstrated good activity, great thermal stability, easy separation, and excellent reusability in both Suzuki reaction and 4-NP reduction.
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ren
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yimin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Changle
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qianwang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen