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A facile approach for the fabrication of loading-controlled Ag/C foam catalyst

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A loading-controlled Ag/C foam catalyst prepared by facile electrochemical growth in an environmentally friendly electrolyte with 5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DMH) and niacin (NA) as complexing agents is reported. By controlling the cathodic current density and the growth time, the loading amount of silver on carbon support can be easily controlled. Ag/C foam catalyst with small size, ideal distribution, and controllable loading amount of Ag particles can be obtained on foam carbon support.

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Supports of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51772039), the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (20180510020), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT18LK15 and DUT18LK21), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0402705), and the Supercomputing Center of Dalian University of Technology for this work are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China

    Anmin Liu, Yilin Yao, Qiyue Yang, Mengfan Gao, Yanan Yang, Jing Guo, Yanqiang Li, Liguo Gao & Tingli Ma

  2. School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China

    Xuefeng Ren

  3. Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 808-0196, Japan

    Tingli Ma

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Liu, A., Ren, X., Yao, Y. et al. A facile approach for the fabrication of loading-controlled Ag/C foam catalyst. Ionics 25, 361–365 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-018-2769-y

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