MOF derived porous carbon supported Cu/Cu2O composite as high performance non-noble catalyst

摘要: Abstract Porous carbon supported copper composite (Cu/Cu 2 O/C) was synthesized with a facile, low cost and novel method used as non-noble-metal catalyst for reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) to 4-aminophenol (4-AP) by NaBH 4 . In the synthetic strategy, metal organic framework Cu 3 (BTC) (also denoted HKUST-1) both sacrificial template precursor, phenol formaldehyde resin precursor. The catalytic Cu/Cu O nanoparticles NPs) about 40 nm-in-diameter distributed uniformly on internal external surface porous flakes, took up 33.38–37.56 wt% O/C composite. Compared noble catalysts, prepared showed comparable high activity, which mainly due their structure facilitating diffusion reactants products, dispersion accessible NPs carbon. Moreover, can be reused at least five cycles its good stability. These results confirmed that as-prepared is promising candidate replace application.