Partial carbonized nanoporous resin (PCNR-150), based on organic xerogel compounds, was prepared at 150 oC by sol–gel method from pyrogallol and formaldehyde mixtures in water using perchloric acid as catalyst. The PCNR-150 was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nitrogen porosim...

We report for the first time the highly selective semihydrogenation of alkynes using the unsupported nanoporous gold (AuNPore) as a catalyst and organosilanes with water as a hydrogen source. Under the optimized reaction conditions, the present semihydrogenation of various terminal- and internal-alkynes affords the corresponding alkenes in high chemical yields and excellent Z-selectivity withou...

Durability and limited catalytic activity are key impediments to the commercialization of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Carbon materials employed as catalyst support can be doped with different heteroatoms, like nitrogen, to improve both catalytic activity and durability. Carbon xerogels are nanoporous carbons that can be easily synthesized in order to obtain N-doped materials. In the present...

Nanoporous acid catalysts such as zeolites form the backbone of catalytic technologies for refining petroleum. With the promise of a biomass economy, new catalyst systems will have to be discovered, making shape-selective base catalysts especially important because of the high oxygen content in biomass-derived feedstocks. Strongly basic zeolites are attractive candidates, but such materials are...

Nanoporous Pt/TiO2 micro-particles were synthesized via an aerosol assisted co-assembly (AACA) route. Aerosol droplets were produced from a colloidal mixture of 5 nm Pt and 20 nm TiO2 nanoparticles, which formed spherical micro-aggregates of Pt and TiO2 with average diameter of around 1.2 μm. The resulting composite micro-particles have very open structure with pore sizes ranging from 20 to 200...

Conversion of solar irradiation into chemical fuels such as hydrogen with the use of a photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell is an attractive strategy for green energy. The promising technique of incorporating metal nanoparticles (NPs) in the photoelectrodes is being explored to enhance the performance of the photoelectrodes. In this work, we developed Au-NPs-functionalized nanoporous BiVO4 photoanod...

we have reported the fabrication of boric acid incorporated into surface of magnetite nanoparticles. the catalyst was characterized using spectroscopic, magnetic and thermal techniques (ft-ir, sem, xrd, icp, vsm and tga). it catalyzed mukaiyama aldol reaction of a ketene silyl acetal type nucleophile ((1-methoxy-2-methylprop-1-enyloxy) trimethylsilane), and various aldehydes (aromatic, aliphati...