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Amphiphilic Pd@micro-organohydrogels with controlled wettability for enhancing gas-liquid-solid triphasic catalytic performance

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The wettability of catalyst plays an important role in regulating catalytic performance in heterogenous catalysis because the microenvironment around the catalytic sites directly determines the mass transfer process of reactants. Inspired by gas trapped on the surface of subaquatic spiders, amphiphilic micro-organohydrogels with tunable surface wettabilities were developed by anchoring various alkane chains onto a poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (p(DMAEMA)) hydrophilic microgel network. Palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) were encapsulated in amphiphilic microgels (amphiphilic Pd@M) to catalyze hydrogenation reaction, achieving higher activities than pristine monohydrophilic Pd@M composite. The underwater oleophilicity and aerophilicity of Pd@M composites were quantified by oil/gas adhesion measurements and computational simulations. The higher amphiphilic catalytic activities are attributed to the formation of a gas-oil-solid reaction interface on the catalyst surfaces, allowing rapid transport of H2 and organic substrates through water to the Pd catalytic sites. Additionally, amphiphilic Pd@M composites also exhibit more superior catalytic performance in multi-substrates reaction.

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We acknowledge the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar (No. 21725401), the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFA0207800), the China Scholarship Council (CSC, No. 201606025097), the 111 project (No. B14009), the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. 2017M620012 and 2019M650434), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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    Minghui Zhang, Tianyi Zhao, Cunming Yu, Qian Liu, Guangyan Wang, Lei Jiang & Mingjie Liu

  2. CAS Key Lab of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

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Zhang, M., Zhao, T., Yu, C. et al. Amphiphilic Pd@micro-organohydrogels with controlled wettability for enhancing gas-liquid-solid triphasic catalytic performance. Nano Res. 15, 557–563 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3520-y

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