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Synthesis of hierarchical Polystyrene/Polyaniline@Au nanostructures of different surface states and studies of their catalytic properties

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We synthesized hierarchical Polystyrene/Polyaniline@Au (PS/PANI@Au) catalysts through a seeded swelling polymerization and in-situ reduction procedure. PS/PANI@Au catalysts possess a core of PS as seed and template, a PANI shell with fibers and uniform gold nanoparticles on the surface. The configuration changes of the PANI chains resulting from the doping/dedoping procedure led to various loading amounts of Au nanoparticles. Reduction of 4-nitrophenol was chosen as the probe reaction to evaluate the catalytic activity of supported Au nanocatalysts. The catalytic results indicated that dedoping treatment of the PS/PANI supports provides stronger coordinative ability to metal nanoparticles as well as more -N= groups, which results in a better catalytic performance towards the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.

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Yu, J., Guo, W., Yang, M. et al. Synthesis of hierarchical Polystyrene/Polyaniline@Au nanostructures of different surface states and studies of their catalytic properties. Sci. China Chem. 57, 1211–1217 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-014-5106-y

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