PMID- 38497589 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20240328 IS - 1944-8252 (Electronic) IS - 1944-8244 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 12 DP - 2024 Mar 27 TI - Aromatic Ethers Induced Electronic Structure Reconstruction on Encapsulated Nickel Catalysts for High-Performance Catalytic Hydrogenation. PG - 14680-14693 LID - 10.1021/acsami.3c16381 [doi] AB - Carbon-encapsulated metal (CEM) catalysts effectively address supported metal catalyst instability by protecting the active metal with a shell. However, mass transfer limitations lead to reduced activity for catalytic hydrogenation reaction over most CEM catalysts. Herein, we introduce a dopant strategy aimed at incorporating nickel metal within graphene-like shells (GLS) featuring oxygen-containing functional groups (OFGs). The core of this strategy involves precise control of GLS modification and the demonstrated pivotal influence of aromatic ether linkages ( horizontal lineC-O-C) in GLS for significant enhancement of catalytic performance. The introduction of horizontal lineC-O-C into GLS with stability was beneficial to improve the work function of the catalyst and promoted electron transmission from Ni metal core to GLS, further elevating the catalytic activity, based on the Mott-Schottky effect. In addition, the experimental characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculations showcased that the horizontal lineC-O-C reconstructed the electronic state of GLS, imparting it highly specific for the adsorption of hydrogen and para-chloronitrobenzene (p-CNB) to obtain para-chloroaniline (p-CAN) with high selectivity. This work manifested a feasible direction for the precise modulation and design of the OFGs in CEM catalysts to achieve highly efficient catalytic hydrogenation. FAU - Yao, Yongyue AU - Yao Y AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Yin, Chunyu AU - Yin C AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Ma, Chaofan AU - Ma C AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Li, Yanni AU - Li Y AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Wang, Yu AU - Wang Y AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Jiang, Ruikun AU - Jiang R AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - He, Wei AU - He W AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Xiang, Zhenli AU - Xiang Z AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Liu, Yi AU - Liu Y AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Li, Xiaonian AU - Li X AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. FAU - Lu, Chunshan AU - Lu C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2485-3070 AD - State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, People's Republic of China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20240318 PL - United States TA - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces JT - ACS applied materials & interfaces JID - 101504991 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - aromatic ether OT - catalytic hydrogenation OT - graphene-like shells OT - oxygen-containing functional groups OT - surface modification EDAT- 2024/03/18 12:44 MHDA- 2024/03/18 12:45 CRDT- 2024/03/18 08:32 PHST- 2024/03/18 12:45 [medline] PHST- 2024/03/18 12:44 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/03/18 08:32 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acsami.3c16381 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024 Mar 27;16(12):14680-14693. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c16381. Epub 2024 Mar 18.