Metal doped core–shell Metal‐Organic Frameworks@Covalent Organic Frameworks (MOFs@COFs) are presented as a novel platform for photocatalysis. A palladium (Pd) doped MOFs@COFs in the form of Pd/TiATA@LZU1 shows excellent photocatalytic performance for tandem dehydrogenation and hydrogenation reactions in a continuous‐flow microreactor and a batch system, indicating the great potential of the metal doped MOFs@COFs as a multifunctional platform for photocatalysis. Explanations for the performance enhancement are elucidated. An integrated dual‐chamber microreactor coupled with the metal doped MOFs@COFs is introduced to demonstrate a concept of an intensified green photochemical process, which can be broadly extended to challenging liquid–gas tandem and cascade reactions.
Self-motile
Janus colloids are important for enabling a wide variety
of microtechnology applications as well as for improving our understanding
of the mechanisms of motion of artificial micro- and nanoswimmers.
We present here micro/nanomotors which possess a reversed Janus structure
of an internal catalytic “chemical engine”. The catalytic
material (here platinum (Pt)) is embedded within the interior of the
mesoporous silica (mSiO2)-based hollow particles and triggers
the decomposition of H2O2 when suspended in
an aqueous peroxide (H2O2) solution. The pores/gaps
at the noncatalytic (Pt) hemisphere allow the exchange of chemical
species in solution between the exterior and the interior of the particle.
By varying the diameter of the particles, we observed size-dependent
motile behavior in the form of enhanced diffusion for 500 nm particles,
and self-phoretic motion, toward the nonmetallic part, for 1.5 and
3 μm ones. The direction of motion was rationalized by a theoretical
model based on self-phoresis. For the 3 μm particles, a change
in the morphology of the porous part is observed, which is accompanied
by a change in the mechanism of propulsion via bubble
nucleation and ejection as well as a change in the direction of motion.
Generation of hydrogen from renewable sources and its safe utilization for efficient one-pot upgrading of renewable biofuels are a challenge. Bimetallic PdAg catalyst supported on Fe 3 O 4 /nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide (N-rGO) were synthesized for hydrogen generation from formic acid with high TOF (497 h −1 at 50 °C), and the hydrogen was subsequently utilized in situ for selective defunctionalization of lignin-derived chemicals with preserved aromatic nature at ambient pressure. Hydrodeoxygenation of aromatic aldehydes and ketones gave excellent yields (99% at 130 °C) with no use of additives. Furthermore, hydrogenolysis of β-O-4 and α-O-4 C−O model compounds produced only two products with high selectivity at 120 °C, which is an efficient and versatile one-pot platform for valorization of lignin biomass.
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