PMID- 29558692 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20180607 LR - 20180607 IS - 1095-7103 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9797 (Linking) VI - 521 DP - 2018 Jul 1 TI - Hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes modified with palladium nanoparticles for environmental catalytic applications. PG - 132-140 LID - S0021-9797(18)30283-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.03.041 [doi] AB - Nowadays, chemical catalytic methods for the treatment of organic wastes are attracting more and more research attention. In the current research, novel catalysts with palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) supported on the hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes (h-mSiO(2)) were synthesized for the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) and hydrodechlorination (HDC) of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP). The key point for the fabrication of the catalysts is that a certain thickness of the silica shell was wrapped on the multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) or Pd/MWNTs through biphase stratification approach, and then the samples were calcined to remove the MWNTs. Thereby, h-mSiO(2) and Pd@h-mSiO(2) samples were obtained. The prepared materials have excellent pore structure and exhibit high specific surface areas. The reduction of 4-NP by the Pd/h-mSiO(2) and Pd@h-mSiO(2) catalysts showed higher TOF values than many other catalysts, and the yield of HDC of 4-CP to phenol reached 100% with a low loading of Pd in water solvent. The excellent catalytic activities of the Pd/h-mSiO(2) and Pd@h-mSiO(2) catalysts should attribute to the excellent connectivity of the h-mSiO(2) which not only can increase the accessibility of the Pd active sites but also enhance the mass transfer of the reactants. It is worth mention that, there is almost no Pd NPs aggregation or losing during the reaction process, and the prepared catalysts still showed good catalytic activity and physical stability after recycling. Moreover, the catalyst shows potential for catalytic reduction of nitroarenes in a fixed bed reactor, thus could be used for continuously treat nitroarenes polluted water. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Tian, Meng AU - Tian M AD - State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Gansu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Chemical Catalysis, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. FAU - Long, Yu AU - Long Y AD - State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Gansu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Chemical Catalysis, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. FAU - Xu, Dan AU - Xu D AD - State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Gansu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Chemical Catalysis, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. FAU - Wei, Shuoyun AU - Wei S AD - Key Laboratory of Evidence of Science and Technology Research and Application, Gansu Institute of Political Science and Law, PR China. FAU - Dong, Zhengping AU - Dong Z AD - State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Gansu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Chemical Catalysis, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. Electronic address: dongzhp@lzu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180314 PL - United States TA - J Colloid Interface Sci JT - Journal of colloid and interface science JID - 0043125 OTO - NOTNLM OT - 4-Chlorophenol OT - 4-Nitrophenol OT - Hollow mesoporous silica nanotubes OT - Hydrodechlorination OT - Palladium nanoparticles EDAT- 2018/03/21 06:00 MHDA- 2018/03/21 06:01 CRDT- 2018/03/21 06:00 PHST- 2018/01/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/03/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/03/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/03/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/03/21 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/03/21 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9797(18)30283-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.03.041 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Colloid Interface Sci. 2018 Jul 1;521:132-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.03.041. Epub 2018 Mar 14.