title: Surfactant-free Pd nanoparticles immobilized to a metal-organic framework with size- and location-dependent catalytic selectivity.
abstract: Surfactant-free Pd nanoparticles, immobilized to a metal-organic framework (MIL-101), have been used for the first time as highly active and durable catalysts in water for biomass refining (hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin, a typical compound of lignin) with metal nanoparticle size- and location-dependent catalytic activity and selectivity.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan. q.xu@aist.go.jp.
authors.forename: Arshad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aijaz
authors.forename: Qi-Long
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Nobuko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsumori
authors.forename: Tomoki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akita
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xu