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Nanoscale. 2014 Jul 07;6(13):7346-53. doi: 10.1039/c4nr00475b.

Porous Ni-Mn oxide nanosheets in situ formed on nickel foam as 3D hierarchical monolith de-NO(x) catalysts.

Nanoscale

Sixiang Cai, Dengsong Zhang, Liyi Shi, Jing Xu, Lei Zhang, Lei Huang, Hongrui Li, Jianping Zhang

Affiliations

  1. Research Center of Nano Science and Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. [email protected].

PMID: 24861850 DOI: 10.1039/c4nr00475b

Abstract

In this work, we successfully in situ decorated nickel foam with porous Ni-Mn oxide nanosheets (3DH-NM/NF) as 3D hierarchical monolith de-NOx catalysts via a simple hydrothermal reaction and calcination process. The catalysts were carefully examined by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, elemental mapping, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, H2 temperature-programmed reduction and NH3 temperature-programmed desorption measurements. The results indicated that the nanosheets are composed of a Ni6Mn1O8 spinel and the metal species are uniformly dispersed in bi-metal oxides. As a result, the strong synergistic effects between the Mn and Ni species have been observed. The active oxygen species, reducible species and acidity are enhanced by the in situ formation of the nanosheets on the surface of nickel foam. These desirable features of 3DH-NM/NF catalysts bring about the excellent de-NOx performance. Moreover, the 3DH-NM/NF catalysts also present good stability and H2O resistance. Based on these favorable properties, 3DH-NM/NF could be considered as a promising candidate for the monolith de-NOx catalysts.

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