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Trimetallic NiFePd nanoalloy catalysed hydrogen generation from alkaline hydrous hydrazine and sodium borohydride at room temperature

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Title Trimetallic NiFePd nanoalloy catalysed hydrogen generation from alkaline hydrous hydrazine and sodium borohydride at room temperature
 
Creator Bhattacharjee, Debaleena
Dasgupta, Subrata
 
Subject Engineering Materials
 
Description A simple, surfactant-assisted, room temperature synthetic route based on the coreduction of Ni, Fe and Pd salts by sodium borohydride has been developed for the synthesis of trimetallic NiFePd nanocatalysts. The catalysts were characterised by XRD, FESEM, EDX, TEM, HRTEM, SAED and XPS, and their catalytic activity and selectivity towards hydrogen generation from hydrous hydrazine and sodium borohydride were studied at room temperature. The support-free nanoparticles possessed good dispersion and a small particle size, revealing excellent catalytic performance for the complete decomposition of hydrous hydrazine and hydrolysis of sodium borohydride at room temperature. The recycle test results of the nanocatalyst showed no significant decrease in catalytic activity over five cycles. It is believed that the trimetallic NiFePd catalyst will provide a process for preparing hydrogen gas in situ, i.e. instantly upon the demand of a selected, hydrogen consuming device or process. The results presented here with a high performance catalyst system with a low noble metal content offer a new prospect for an on-board hydrogen production system.
 
Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/3141/1/debaleena.pdf
Bhattacharjee, Debaleena and Dasgupta, Subrata (2015) Trimetallic NiFePd nanoalloy catalysed hydrogen generation from alkaline hydrous hydrazine and sodium borohydride at room temperature. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3 (48). pp. 24371-24378. ISSN 2050-7488
 
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