Rattle-type microspheres as a support of tiny gold nanoparticles for highly efficient catalysis

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Nov 14;47(42):11727-9. doi: 10.1039/c1cc13717d. Epub 2011 Sep 27.

Authors

Bin Liu¹, Wei Zhang, Hailiang Feng, Xinlin Yang

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, the Ministry of Education, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.

PMID: 21952631
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc13717d

Abstract

SiO(2)/poly(ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate) (PEGDMA) rattle-type microspheres loaded with tiny sized gold nanoparticles (~2 nm) were prepared through a facile and novel method. Catalyzed reduction of 4-nitrophenol with NaBH(4) demonstrated that this rattle-type microsphere possessed high catalytic efficiency.