Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid Decomposition Using AuPd and AgPd Dendritic Nanocatalysts

Jun LIU Jia-Qi XIE Xin-Hua WU Rong LI Li-Xin LAN

Citation:  LIU Jun, XIE Jia-Qi, WU Xin-Hua, LI Rong, LAN Li-Xin. Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid Decomposition Using AuPd and AgPd Dendritic Nanocatalysts[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2019, 35(8): 1509-1519. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2019.172 shu

AuPd和AgPd枝晶纳米催化剂催化甲酸分解制氢

    通讯作者: 兰立新, 1395561744@qq.com
  • 基金项目:

    湖南省自然科学基金 2018JJ5021

    湖南省自然科学基金(No.2018JJ5021)资助项目

摘要: 由枝晶构成的AuPd和AgPd三维多孔泡沫薄膜在室温下分解甲酸制氢具有高催化活性。该高催化活性是由于纳米枝晶中存在大量的活性位点,如台阶、角、扭结、边缘以及合金间的电子效应。多孔泡沫膜除了具有较高的活性外,还具有其他优良的性能:在不需要有机添加剂的情况下,利用氢气泡模板法在Ti基板上可在5 min内快速沉积多孔泡沫催化剂,无需后处理便可用于催化甲酸分解制氢;通过将电沉积泡沫膜浸入或者拉出HCOOH+HCOONa溶液,可控制氢气的产生或停止;该泡沫催化剂通过去离子水清洗或者在H2SO4溶液中进行循环伏安扫描、干燥后就可活化重新使用。

English

  • Among various power sources, hydrogen energy is attracting increasing attention on account of its cleanness and sustainability[1]. However, storage and transfer of hydrogen gas are difficult with current technology because hydrogen gas is flammable and has a poor volumetric energy density. Noteworthily, formic acid has been considered as a promising in situ hydrogen source by catalytic decomposition[1-19] because it offers relatively high volumetric energy density, is non-toxic, can be safely handled in liquid and in aqueous solution, and can be derived from hydrogenation of CO2[20-21]. Decomposition of formic acid through two possible pathways is as follows[2, 6]:

    $ {\rm{HCOOH }} \to {{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{ + C}}{{\rm{O}}_{\rm{2}}} $

    (1)

    $ {\rm{HCOOH }} \to {{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{O + CO}} $

    (2)

    Reaction (1) is desired for hydrogen production and Reaction (2) should be avoided because CO is highly poisonous to catalysts. The content of carbon monoxide in hydrogen gas should be less than 10-3% for direct use in fuel cells[2].

    Recently, considerable progress has been made to obtain ultrapure hydrogen gas effectively from formic acid with different catalysts. For example, homogenous catalysts of metallic complexes (e.g. Ru and Fe complexes) showed excellent catalytic activities at ambient conditions towards the decomposition of formic acid in an inert atmosphere and in the presence of formate[10-11], amine[12-15] or in an organic solvent[16]. On the other hand, much more efforts have also been made recently in developing heterogenous catalysis of formic acid decomposition to surpass the efficiency by homogenous catalysis. Some nanocatalysts dispersed in aqueous solution of formic acid containing formate have also shown high activity for hydrogen production from decom-position of formic acid. Core-shell Ag@Pd/C nanopar-ticles[2], Pd/C catalysts[3], Pd-B-P/C[4], Au/ZrO2 catalyst[5], Pd/C[6], TiO2-supported AgPd@Pd nanocatalysts[9], AgPd nanoparticles[17], AuPd/C[18], and agglomerated Ag-Pd catalyst[22] are such representative nanocatalysts. However, further improvements of nanocatalysts in activity and selectivity are still requested to obtain high-quality hydrogen gas by decomposition of formic acid at room temperature.

    As far as we knew, nanoporous alloy materials like AuPd[23], PdAg[24], PtNi[25], PtFe[26], PtCo[27], and PtRu[28-29] prepared by dealloying or hydrothermal method have also received considerable attention for electrocatalytic oxidation of small organic molecules. We first demon-strated that noble metal alloy foam materials of AuPt[30] with nanodendritic structures prepared by electrodeposi-tion with a template of in situ produced hydrogen bubbles have high electrocatalytic activity for the oxidation of formic acid. Since the pioneer work on the electrodeposition of Cu and Sn foams[31], the hydrogen bubble dynamic template approach has been employed to prepare a lot of monometallic and bimetallic 3D porous foams, including Au[32-33], Ag[34-35], Ni[36], Bi[37], CuSn[38], PtPd[39], CuPd[40], Pt@AuxCu100-x[41], CoNi[42], and NiCu[43]. This is a very facile, fast and environment-friendly method for the preparation of metal foams without using protective reagents and additional template reagents.

    In this work, we made detailed investigation for the first time on the preparation of nanodendritic AuPd and AgPd foam film catalysts with different atomic ratios by direct electrodeposition using hydrogen bubble dynamic templates and on their performance in hydrogen production from decomposition of formic acid at room temperature. These nanodendritic foam film catalysts show excellent activity for the decomposition of formic acid under room temperature and have great potential for practical applications in fuel cells.

    HAuCl4·4H2O, AgNO3, Pd(C2H3O2)2 and PdCl2 were obtained from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). A gold disk (1 mm diameter, purity 99.99%), a platinum foil (geometric area 1 cm2) and Ti plates (geometric area 1 or 2 cm2) were purchased from Tianjin Ai Da Heng Sheng Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Tianjin, China). Sulfuric acid (H2SO4), formic acid (HCOOH) and sodium formate (HCOONa) were purchased from the Factory of Hunan Normal University. All the chemicals were of analytical grade and were used as received. Milli-Q water with a resistivity of greater than 18 MΩ·cm was used in the preparation of aqueous solutions.

    In order to save Au and Pd precursors, exploratory electrodeposition of prous foams were performed firstly on a CHI 660C electrochemical workstation (Chenhua Instruments, Shanghai, China) with a small gold disk (1 mm diameter, purity 99.99%) or a Ti disk (2 mm diameter, purity 99.99%) purchased from Good Fellows as the substrate (working electrode). A platinum foil (geometric area 1 cm2), and a saturated mercurous sulfate electrode (SMSE) were employed as the counter and reference electrode, respectively. Prior to use, the working electrode was polished with 2 000 grit carbimet paper, followed by rinsing in Millipore water under ultrasonic waves. Then the electrode was electrochemically pretreated by cycling the potential between -0.7 and 1.1 V in 0.5 mol·L-1 H2SO4 at a scan rate of 100 mV·s-1 until a stable voltammogram was obtained. According to our previous experience for the electrodeposition of AuPt[30] alloy foams, electrodeposition of AuPd foam films were performed under a constant potential of -4 V for 300 s in a stationary solution of 2 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+0.58 mmol·L-1 PdCl2+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4, 1 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+1 mmol·L-1 PdCl2+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4, 0.5 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+1.5 mmol·L-1 PdCl2+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4, and we denoted the deposited foam films as Au100Pd29, Au1Pd1, and Au1Pd3, respectively, according to the molar ratios of HAuCl4/PdCl2 in the feeding solution. For comparison, mono-metallic Au and Pd foam films were deposited in the same way by substituting the mixed precursors with 1 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4 and 2 mmol·L-1 PdCl2, respectively. AgPd foam films were also prepared by electrodeposition under -4 V for 300 s with precursor solutions of 1 mmol ·L-1 AgNO3+1 mmol·L-1 Pd(C2H3O2)2+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4.

    An alternative two-step method was also employed to fabricate Pd-covered Au foams (denoted as Pd/Au). First, the gold foam was deposited under 4 V for 300 s in a solution of 2 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4, then, immersed in Milli-Q water for 10 min to remove the absorbed AuCl4-. Finally, the gold foam film electrode was transferred into a solution of 5 mmol·L-1 of PdCl2+0.1 mol·L-1 HClO4 to deposit Pd on the surface by galvanic replacement reaction for 45 min. The obtained Au/Pd bimetallic foam electrode was taken out and immersed into 100 mL Milli-Q water for 30 min to remove the absorbed precursor ions.

    For convenience and practical applications, the alloy foam catalysts for the decomposition of formic acid were prepared with a direct current (DC) power (KXN-1550D) and a two-electrode configuration. A larger Ti plate (geometric area 2 cm2) substrate and a platinum foil (geometric area 1 cm2) were employed as the working and counter electrode, respectively. Prior to use, the Ti plates were polished with 2 000 grit carbimet paper, etched in 18%(w/w) HCl at 85 ℃ for 15 min to remove the surface oxide, and washed with Milli-Q water. Similar foam films can also be fabricated by electrodeposition under a constant voltage of 7 V for 200 s in different precursor solutions.

    The real surface areas of these bimetallic and monometallic foam films were estimated from the double layer capacity measurement and the details of experiment and calculation were described in the Supplementary Information (Fig.S1, S2 and S3).

    The morphology images of the electrodeposited foam films were taken with a JEOL JSM-6360 scanning electron microscope (SEM) operating at 25 kV. TEM measurements were performed with JEOL-1230 electron microscope operating at a voltage 200 kV. Their bulk compositions were analyzed with an energy-dispersive X-rayspectrometer (EDS) using Tecnai 20. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of the resulting products was carried out on a Dmax Rapid IIR diffractometer (Cu radiation (λ=0.154 2 nm)) in a scan range of 20°~120°, and the exposure time was 15 min at 40 kV and 40 mA.

    The catalytic reactions of formic acid by the deposited foam films were performed at room temperature (~25 ℃) either in a test tube or in a beaker containing a solution of 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH and 3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa. For anlalysis of gas chromatography (GC 5890F)[44], the produced gases were collected by the draining water method using a glass funnel and a gas-collecting bottle (35 mL) that were placed upside down. In addition, a graduated gas-collecting tube was used to record the gas volume released during 2 h. The deposited foam catalysts can be activated repeatedly after being washed with Milli-Q water and dried under an infrared lamp, or treated by potential cycling in 1 mol·L-1 H2SO4 within the range of -0.65 to 1 V at a scan rate of 100 mV·s-1.

    The SEM images in Fig. 1 show the porous structures of the prepared AuPd foam films with different compositions by electrodeposition on Au disk electrodes (1 mm diameter) under a constant potential of -4 V for 300 s. The hierarchical pores in the forms were highly interconnected and look similar to each other (columns 1~2), resembling those of pure Au and pure Pd foams (Fig.S4). The pore size increased from bottom to top up to about 20 μm due to the coalescence of hydrogen gas bubbles during evolution from the substrate. The foams consisted of dense nanodendrites (column 3). Such dendritic AuPd alloy foams have larger surface area and provide more active sites like steps, corners, kinks and edges, which are beneficial to catalytic reactions[30]. Similar foam structures were obtained using either Ti disks (2 mm diameter) or Ti plates (geometric area 2 cm2) under violent hydrogen evolution, which are given in Fig.S5 and S6. However, such foam structure was not observed (Fig.S7) while lessened the cathodic polarization extent from -4 to -0.8 V, where no severe hydrogen evolution occurred during electrodeposition.

    Figure 1

    Figure 1.  SEM images of 3D porous AuPd alloys electrodeposited on Au disk electrodes (1 mm diameter) at -4 V for 300 s in 2 mol·L-1 H2SO4 containing different Au/Pd ratios of precursor concentrations

    (a1~a3) 2 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+0.58 mmol·L-1 PdCl2, (b1~b3) 1 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+1 mmol·L-1 PdCl2 and (c1~c3) 0.5 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+1.5 mmol·L-1 PdCl2

    The detailed dendritic structures of Au1Pd1 foams were further characterized by TEM and high-resolution TEM (HRTEM). As seen in Fig. 2a and 2b, the dendrites were comprised of abundant nanocrystals sizing from 10 to 30 nm. Such morphology indicated that the formation of dendrites underwent orientated attachment of deposited nanocrystals[45-47]. The HRTEM image in Fig. 2c reveals the atom lattice. The lattice fringe spacings of 0.234, 0.224 and 0.229 nm corresponded to the interplanar distance of Au (111), Pd (111) and AuPd (111) planes[48-49], respectively. In our experimental conditions, the Au1Pd1 foam film was rapidly electrodeposited in short duration.

    Figure 2

    Figure 2.  (a, b) TEM and (c) HRTEM images of the dendritic structure in the Au1Pd1 alloy foam

    The atomic compositions of AuPd foams were analyzed by EDS (Fig. 3), which were roughly consistent with those of their corresponding precursor solutions (Table S1). It indicates that the foam composition could be controlled by the ratio of precursors.

    Figure 3

    Figure 3.  EDS spectra for the foam films of (a) Au100Pd29, (b) Au1Pd1 and (c) Au1Pd3

    In order to further determine the feature of bulk phase, the AuPd foam films were characterized by XRD. Fig. 4 shows the XRD patterns of the deposited AuPd alloy foams as well as pure Pd and Au foams. The diffraction peaks at 38.23°, 44.34°, 64.63°, 77.65° and 81.89° were assigned to Au (111), (200), (220), (311) and (222) planes, respectively, according to PDF No.04-0784 of Au; and the diffraction peaks at 40.09°, 46.47°, 68.26°, 82.33° and 86.88° were assigned to Pd (111), (200), (220), (311) and (222) planes, respectively, accor-ding to PDF No.46-1043 of Pd. The diffraction peaks of Au100Pd29, Au1Pd1 and Au1Pd3 samples fall well between those of pure Au and Pd, presenting a smooth transition from an Au-like pattern to a Pd-like pattern with the increase of Pd content. It suggests that the AuPd porous films are single-phase alloy nanomaterials. The detailed 2θ values of all samples are presented in Table S2.

    Figure 4

    Figure 4.  XRD patterns for foam films of pure Au, pure Pd and AuPd alloys

    We found that the foam films of Au, Pd and AuPd alloys deposited on Au disk electrodes exhibited high catalytic activity in hydrogen generation from decom-position of formic acid at room temperature (~25 ℃). As demonstrated in Fig. 5, vigorous gas released as soon as the foam film electrodes were immersed in the solution of 3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa+6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH. Among them, the Au1Pd1 foam film catalyst showed the highest reactive activity for the decomposition of formic acid. Similar phenomena were also observed on the foam films deposited on Ti disk electrodes (2 mm diameter) and on the Ti plate (geometric area 2 cm2) for formic acid decomposition as shown in Fig.S8 and S9, respectively.

    Figure 5

    Figure 5.  Photos for the hydrogen production at room temperature in 3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa+6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH from the decomposition of formic acid on the foam films of (a) Au, (b) Au100Pd29, (c) Au1Pd1, (d) Au1Pd3, and (e) Pd deposited on gold disk electrodes (1 mm diameter)

    To produce more gas from formic acid decomposi-tion, we used the larger Ti plate (geometric area 2 cm2) as substrate to deposit foam films (Fig.S6 and S9(a~c)). Fig. 6a shows the relationship between collected volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) and collection time during 2 h with various porous film catalysts of Au, Au100Pd29, Au1Pd1, Au1Pd3 and Pd in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH and 3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa solution. To compare the catalytic activity of different metal foam films, the gas volume was scaled to unit active area, which was obtained by the method discribed in Fig.S1, S2 and S3. Apparently, Au1Pd1 foam film was the best catalyst among the five foam films, which gave a rather high maximum output of 169.8 mL·m-2 reforming gas in 2 h (It was 114.5 mL·m-2 in 2 h at 35 ℃, which could be calculated from the data in the reference[2] for Ag@Pd core-shell nanoparticles). Especially, the original reaction rate was extremely fast and about 48.09 mL·m-2 reforming gas was released in the first 1 min, being 28.31% of the total reforming gas in 120 min. The reaction rate then became steady after 20 min especially for the foam films of Au, Pd and Au100Pd29. The CO content in the reforming gas was determined to be 6.5×10-5 by gas chromatography (Fig.S10 and Table S3), which was rather low. Moreover, the content of CO2 was detected to be 8.15% (less than 50%), which could be ascribed to the dissolution of CO2 in view of the large volume of the HCOOH+HCOONa solution (2 L) we used to collect the gases conveniently. The turnover frequency (TOF)[2] during 2 h on Au1Pd1 alloy foam was up to 188 h-1, which showed high catalytic activity towards the decomposition of formic acid at room temperature (~25 ℃).

    Figure 6

    Figure 6.  (a) Output volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) during 120 min on the porous film catalysts of Au, Au100Pd29, Au1Pd1, Au1Pd3, and Pd in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH+3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa at room temperature (~25 ℃); (b) Cycling performance of the Au1Pd1 foam film

    The cumulation of CO at the foam film surface might be the reason for the decreased in decomposition rate of formic acid after 20 min. We found that the activity of the catalysts could be easily renewed by cleaning them in pure water and followed by drying in air under an infrared lamp for 2 h. During this treatment, the adsorbed CO was removed by oxygen species on the film surface resulted from the water and/or air. Fig. 6b shows the results for repeated performances of the Au1Pd1 foam film catalyst in formic acid decomposition. After the cleaning and drying treatment, the catalytic activity of Au1Pd1 foam film was restored completely and the released gas volumes were almost the same for the two repeated performances, especially in the first 20 min.

    The presence and removal of poisonous CO adsorbed on the AuPd foam films were confirmed by cyclic voltammograms in H2SO4 solution (Fig.S11). On the Au1Pd1 foam film without treatment by cleaning and drying there was a big sharp oxidation peak at 0.49 V in the first positive potential sweep, which is ascribed to the oxidation of adsorbed CO formed previously from the dissociative adsorption of formic acid. Meanwhile, hydrogen desorption peak vanished in the first positive potential sweep because the adsorbed CO inhibited the hydrogen adsorption. However, no such CO oxidative peak was observed for the Au1Pd1 foam film after cleaning and drying. It can also be seen that one potential cycle in 1 mol·L-1 H2SO4 solution could remove the adsorbed CO because hydrogen desorption peak around -0.5 V reappeared. This is another convenient way to reactivate the catalysts. The repeated performance of the Au1Pd1 foam film reactivated by potential cycles is shown in Fig.S12.

    We also prepared Pd-covered Au (Pd/Au) foam films by galvanic displacement between Au foams and PdCl2 solution because the Au nanodendrites were highly reactive. According to Chung and his co-workers, galvanic displacement of Au by Pt or Pd can only occur at places of active Au atoms[52], so the deposited Pd layer would be very thin. The Pd/Au foam film in Fig.S13 displayed similar morphology with that of AuPd alloy foam films (Fig. 1). EDS analysis (Fig.S14) of the Pd/Au foam film showed that the average surface atomic ratio of Au to Pd was about 55.73:44.27. However, the atomic ratio of Au to Pd varied from place to place because the active Au atoms on the dendritic Au foam film were not distributed uniformly.

    A photo for the hydrogen production at room temperature from decomposition of formic acid on the Au/Pd foam film deposited on Ti plate was shown in Fig.S9d. The Pd/Au foam film catalyst possessed much higher activity for the formic acid decomposition (Fig. 7) than pure foam films of Au and Pd (Fig. 6a). 101.6, 7.89 and 61.40 mL·m-2 reforming gas were obtained in 2 h on the foam films of Pd/Au, pure Au and pure Pd, respectively. However, the performance of Pd-covered Au foam film towards formic acid decomposition was a little poor than that of Au1Pd1 alloy foam film (Fig. 6a).

    Figure 7

    Figure 7.  Output volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) during 120 min with the Pd/Au foam film catalyst in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH+3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa at room temperature (~25 ℃)

    We further deposited Ag1Pd1 foam film and investigated its catalytic activity for formic acid decomposition at room temperature (~25 ℃). Fig. 8 shows typical SEM images of the deposited Ag1Pd1 foam film. As can be clearly seen, the foam film have similar hierarchical porous structures, resembling that of AuPd foam films. Nevertheless, the wall of Ag1Pd1 foam (Fig. 8c) consisted of much smaller and thinner dendtrites than those of AuPd foams in Fig. 1.

    Figure 8

    Figure 8.  SEM images of 3D porous AgPd film electrodeposited on Au disk electrodes (1 mm diameter) at -4 V for 300 s in 2 mol·L-1 H2SO4 containing 1 mmol·L-1 AgNO3+1 mmol·L-1 Pd(CH3COO)2

    The representative TEM images in Fig. 9(a, b) demonstrated that the prepared nanodendritic AgPd foam film comprise of samll nanocrystals sizing from 10 to 20 nm. Such morphology also indicated that the formation of nanodendrites underwent orientated attachment of deposited nanocrystals[45-47]. Fig. 9(c) shows the HRTEM image of an AgPd sprout. The lattice fringe spacings of 0.224 and 0.232 nm corresponded to the interplanar distance of Pd (111) (PDF No.46-1043) and Ag (111) (PDF No.65-2871) planes, respectively. The orientations of the crystal planes suggested that the growth direction was along the [111] axis. On the other hand, we found that most of the lattice fringe spacings were assigned to Pd (111) plane on the surface of AgPd nanoparticles. The reason would be that galvanic replacement reaction took place between the freshly deposited Ag and Pd2+ ions in solution. This explantion was supported by EDS analysis shown in Fig.S15, where the atomic percentage of Pd in the AgPd foam was somewhat higher than that in the corresponding feeding solution.

    Figure 9

    Figure 9.  (a, b) TEM, and (c) HRTEM images of the dendritic structure in the Ag1Pd1 foam film electrodeposited in the solution of 1 mmol·L-1 AgNO3+1 mmol·L-1 Pd(CH3COO)2+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4

    The bulk phase of the AgPd foam film was characterized by XRD (Fig. 10). The standard card of cubic Ag (PDF No.65-2871) and the XRD pattern of deposited pure Pd foam film are also shown in Fig. 10 for comparison. The diffraction peaks of (111), (200), (220) and (311) planes both from pure Ag and from AgPd alloy appeared, suggesting that the Ag1Pd1 foam film was a mixture of metallic Ag and AgPd alloy.

    Figure 10

    Figure 10.  XRD patterns of foam films of Ag1Pd1 and pure Pd

    The Ag1Pd1 foam film also showed high catalytic activity toward the decomposition of formic acid at room temperature, which would be observed by naked eyes (Fig.S16). Fig. 11 gives the relationship between released gas volume and collection time. The original reaction rate on the Ag1Pd1 foam was rather fast and about 128.2 mL·m-2 reforming gas was released in the first 8 min and gave a maximum output of 279.5 mL·m-2 reforming gas in 2 h, which was more than that on the Au1Pd1 foam film catalyst due to the electronic effect[2]. Comparison of catalytic activities of AuPd, AgPd foams and different nano-power catalysts for hydrogen generation from formic acid were showed in Table 1. Among all the catalysts tested, Ag1Pd1 foam exhibited the high catalytic activity with the TOF value of 308 h-1 at room temperature toward hydrogen generation from formic acid, which is higher than of most previously reported values.

    Figure 11

    Figure 11.  Output volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) during 120 min for the foam film catalyst of Ag1Pd1 in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH+3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa solution at room temperature (~25 ℃)

    Table 1

    Table 1.  Comparison of activities of different catalysts for hydrogen generation from formic acid
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    Catalyst Reaction condition TOF / h-1 T/K Reference
    Au1Pd1 foam HCOOH+HCOONa 188 298 This work
    Ag1Pd1 foam HCOOH+HCOONa 308 298 This work
    Ag@Pd (1:1) HCOOH 125 293 [2]
    Ag@Pd (1:1) HCOOH 156 308 [2]
    Ag@Pd (1:1) HCOOH 252 323 [2]
    Ag/Pd alloy (1:1) HCOOH 144 293 [2]
    Pd (2.3 nm) HCOOH 24 293 [2]
    Pd (3.2 nm) HCOOH 25 293 [2]
    Ag@Pd/C (1:1) HCOOH 192 293 [2]
    Pd@Si02 HCOOH+HCOONa 70 365 [3]
    Pd-B-P/C HCOOH+HCOONa 798 303 [4]
    Au/ZrO2 HCOOH+dimethylethanolamine 1 166 333 [5]
    Pd/C HCOOH+HCOONa 565 303 [6]
    PdNiAg/C HCOOH+HCOONa 85 323 [9]
    Ag1Pd5/N-G HCOOH+HCOONa 309.1 298 [17]
    Au-Pd/N-C HCOOH 2 221 323 [18]

    To conclude, we have provided a facile and green way to prepare AuPd and AgPd foam film catalysts composed of special porous structures with nanodendritic walls. Among the prepared AuPd dendritic foam film catalysts, the foam of Au1Pd1 displayed the highest catalytic activity for the decomposition of formic acid at room temperature, and the foam of Ag1Pd1 was better than Au1Pd1. The high catalytic activity of the dendritic foam films of Au1Pd1 and Ag1Pd1 is attributed to the presence of abundant active sites like steps, corners, kinks and edges in the nanodendrites, and to the electronic effect. Such supported thin films of nanocatalysts are easier to operate than that of dispersed nanoparticles and homogeneous catalysts because they are convenient for controlling, seperating and recycling. We hope that this work opens a new avenue to develop supported solid film nanocatalysts for hydrogen production from formic acid decomposition in aqueous solution.

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  • Figure 1  SEM images of 3D porous AuPd alloys electrodeposited on Au disk electrodes (1 mm diameter) at -4 V for 300 s in 2 mol·L-1 H2SO4 containing different Au/Pd ratios of precursor concentrations

    (a1~a3) 2 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+0.58 mmol·L-1 PdCl2, (b1~b3) 1 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+1 mmol·L-1 PdCl2 and (c1~c3) 0.5 mmol·L-1 HAuCl4+1.5 mmol·L-1 PdCl2

    Figure 2  (a, b) TEM and (c) HRTEM images of the dendritic structure in the Au1Pd1 alloy foam

    Figure 3  EDS spectra for the foam films of (a) Au100Pd29, (b) Au1Pd1 and (c) Au1Pd3

    Figure 4  XRD patterns for foam films of pure Au, pure Pd and AuPd alloys

    Figure 5  Photos for the hydrogen production at room temperature in 3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa+6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH from the decomposition of formic acid on the foam films of (a) Au, (b) Au100Pd29, (c) Au1Pd1, (d) Au1Pd3, and (e) Pd deposited on gold disk electrodes (1 mm diameter)

    Figure 6  (a) Output volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) during 120 min on the porous film catalysts of Au, Au100Pd29, Au1Pd1, Au1Pd3, and Pd in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH+3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa at room temperature (~25 ℃); (b) Cycling performance of the Au1Pd1 foam film

    Figure 7  Output volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) during 120 min with the Pd/Au foam film catalyst in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH+3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa at room temperature (~25 ℃)

    Figure 8  SEM images of 3D porous AgPd film electrodeposited on Au disk electrodes (1 mm diameter) at -4 V for 300 s in 2 mol·L-1 H2SO4 containing 1 mmol·L-1 AgNO3+1 mmol·L-1 Pd(CH3COO)2

    Figure 9  (a, b) TEM, and (c) HRTEM images of the dendritic structure in the Ag1Pd1 foam film electrodeposited in the solution of 1 mmol·L-1 AgNO3+1 mmol·L-1 Pd(CH3COO)2+2 mol·L-1 H2SO4

    Figure 10  XRD patterns of foam films of Ag1Pd1 and pure Pd

    Figure 11  Output volume of reforming gas (H2+CO2) during 120 min for the foam film catalyst of Ag1Pd1 in 6.64 mol·L-1 HCOOH+3.32 mol·L-1 HCOONa solution at room temperature (~25 ℃)

    Table 1.  Comparison of activities of different catalysts for hydrogen generation from formic acid

    Catalyst Reaction condition TOF / h-1 T/K Reference
    Au1Pd1 foam HCOOH+HCOONa 188 298 This work
    Ag1Pd1 foam HCOOH+HCOONa 308 298 This work
    Ag@Pd (1:1) HCOOH 125 293 [2]
    Ag@Pd (1:1) HCOOH 156 308 [2]
    Ag@Pd (1:1) HCOOH 252 323 [2]
    Ag/Pd alloy (1:1) HCOOH 144 293 [2]
    Pd (2.3 nm) HCOOH 24 293 [2]
    Pd (3.2 nm) HCOOH 25 293 [2]
    Ag@Pd/C (1:1) HCOOH 192 293 [2]
    Pd@Si02 HCOOH+HCOONa 70 365 [3]
    Pd-B-P/C HCOOH+HCOONa 798 303 [4]
    Au/ZrO2 HCOOH+dimethylethanolamine 1 166 333 [5]
    Pd/C HCOOH+HCOONa 565 303 [6]
    PdNiAg/C HCOOH+HCOONa 85 323 [9]
    Ag1Pd5/N-G HCOOH+HCOONa 309.1 298 [17]
    Au-Pd/N-C HCOOH 2 221 323 [18]
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