Chemistry Letters, Vol.44, No.12, 1691-1693, 2015
New Method for the Synthesis of Ru Nanoparticles Using Photoexcited Fullerene C-60-containing Mesoporous Silica as a Catalyst Support
A new photoassisted deposition (PAD) method using fullerene C-60 is developed. Photoexcited fullerene C-60 introduced within the mesopore of SBA-15 acts as an anchor to reduce Ru3+ ions to the highly dispersed Ru metal with a narrow size distribution. Such uniform Ru nanoparticles (NPs) show high catalytic activity for dehydrogenation of ammonia borane than the sample prepared by conventional impregnation method.