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    Citation - WoS: 23
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    Nanocrystalline Metal Organic Framework (mil-101) Stabilized Copper Nanoparticles: Highly Efficient Nanocatalyst for the Hydrolytic Dehydrogenation of Methylamine Borane
    (Elsevier Science Sa, 2018) Baguc, Ismail Burak; Ertas, Ilknur Efecan; Yurderi, Mehmet; Bulut, Ahmet; Zahmakiran, Mehmet; Kaya, Murat
    The copper nanoparticles stabilized by nanocrystalline MIL-101 framework (Cu/nano-MIL-101) was reproducibly prepared by following double solvent method combined with liquid phase chemical reduction technique. The characterization of the resulting new material was done by using various analytical techniques including ICP-OES, P-XRD, N-2-adsorption-desorption, XPS, FE-SEM, SEM-EDX, BFTEM and HAADF-STEM; the summation of their results reveals that the formation of well-dispersed and very small sized (0.8 nm) copper nanoparticles within nanocrystalline MIL-101 framework. The catalytic performance of Cu/nano-MIL-101 in terms of activity and stability was tested in the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of methylamine borane (CH3NH2BH3), which has been considered as one of the attractive materials for the efficient chemical hydrogen storage. Cu/nano-MIL-101 catalyzes the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of methylamine borane with high activity (turnover frequency; TOF = 257 mot H-2/mol Cu x h) and conversion ( > 99%) under air at room temperature. Moreover, these nano-MIL-101 framework stabilized copper nanoparticles show great durability against to sintering and leaching, which make Cu/nano-MIL-101 reusable nanocatalyst in the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of methylamine-borane. Cu/nano-MIL-101 nanocatalyst retains 83% of its inherent activity at complete conversion even at 10th recycle in the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of methylamine borane.
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    Citation - WoS: 125
    Citation - Scopus: 130
    Pdau-mnox< Nanoparticles Supported on Amine-Functionalized Sio2 for the Room Temperature Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid in the Absence of Additives
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2016) Karatas, Yasar; Bulut, Ahmet; Yurderi, Mehmet; Ertas, Ilknur Efecan; Alal, Orhan; Gulcan, Mehmet; Zahmakiran, Mehmet
    Formic acid (HCOOH) has recently been suggested as a promising hydrogen carrier for fuel cell applications. However efficient hydrogen production through the decomposition of formic acid in the absence of additives under mild thermodynamic conditions constitutes a major challenge because of the ease poisoning of active metals with CO formed as intermediate during formic acid decomposition. Recently, we have reported (App. Catal. B: Env. 164 (2015) 324) our discovery that the separately nucleated MnOx nanoparticles act as CO-sponge around catalytically active Pd nanoparticles exist on the same support and enhances both the activity and CO-resistivity of Pd nanoparticles. Using this important finding, herein, we present a new catalyst system consists of the physical mixture of PdAu alloy and MnOx nanoparticles supported on amine-grafted silica (PdAu-MnOx/N-SiO2) for the room temperature dehydrogenation of formic acid in the absence of any additives. PdAu-MnOx/N-SiO2 catalyst was simply prepared by deposition-reduction technique in water at room temperature with high reproducibility and characterized by the combination of various spectroscopic tools including ICP-OES, P-XRD, DR/UV-vis, XPS, BFTEM, STEM-EDX, STEM-line analysis and CO-stripping voltammetry techniques. The sum of their results shows that the formation of physical mixture of PdAu alloy and MnOx (dmean=2.2 nm) nanoparticles on the surface of support material. This new catalytic material facilitates the hydrogen liberation through the additive-free formic acid dehydrogenation at room temperature with previously unprecedented activity (TOF=785 mol H-2 mol catalyst(-1) h(-1)), converging to that of the existing state of the art homogenous catalysts. This new superior catalytic system enables facile catalyst recovery and very high stability against agglomeration, leaching and CO poisoning, which make it highly reusable catalyst (retains >92% activity and 85% conversion at the 5th catalytic reuse) in the additive-free formic acid dehydrogenation at room temperature. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.