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Layered CuNi-Cu2O/NiAlOx nanocatalyst for rapid conversion of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol

Lin Fu1,§Wei Zhou1,§Ming Wen1( )Qingsheng Wu1Weiying Li1Dandan Wu2( )Quanjing Zhu1Jiaqi Ran1Panpan Ren1
School of Chemical Science and Engineering College of Environmental Science and Engineering Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water EnvironmentMinistry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, Tongji UniversityShanghai 200092 China
School of Materials Science and Engineering Shanghai Institute of TechnologyShanghai 201418 China

§Lin Fu and Wei Zhou contributed equally to this work.

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In order to well arrange active sites and avoid byproducts, the reasonable structured carrier nanocatalyst plays a crucial role in high catalytic performance, but still remains a challenge. Herein, the layered CuNi-Cu2O/NiAlOx nanosheets have been constructed through hydrothermal synthesis followed by calcination and H2 reduction treatment process. The in-situ formed CuNi nanoalloys (NAs) and nano-Cu2O were evenly distributed on the bilateral surface of layered NiAlOx nanosheets. Based on the planar structure of nanosheet, the synergy between catalytic active CuNi NAs and photocatalytic active nano-Cu2O endows CuNi-Cu2O/NiAlOx nanosheets with rapid conversion efficiency for catalyzing p-nitrophenol (p-NP, 14 mg·L-1) to p-aminophenol (p-AP) in 32 s with the reaction rate constant k up to 0.1779 s-1, and no obvious performance decay can be observed even over 27 cycles. Moreover, high concentration of p-NP at 10 and 20 g·L-1 could be reduced to p-AP within 14 and 20 min, respectively. Such designed nanoalloy/bimetal-oxide heterostructure can provide a solution for rapid conversion of aminoaromatics from nitroaromatics wastewater even at a large concentration range.

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Fu L, Zhou W, Wen M, et al. Layered CuNi-Cu2O/NiAlOx nanocatalyst for rapid conversion of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol. Nano Research, 2021, 14(12): 4616-4624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3391-2
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Received: 30 October 2020
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Published: 29 March 2021
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