Encapsulated Ni-Co alloy nanoparticles as efficient catalyst for hydrodeoxygenation of biomass derivatives in water

doi:10.1016/S1872-2067(21)63828-7

Abstract

Abstract:

Catalytic hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) is one of the most promising strategies to transform oxygen-rich biomass derivatives into high value-added chemicals and fuels, but highly challenging due to the lack of highly efficient nonprecious metal catalysts. Herein, we report for the first time of a facile synthetic approach to controllably fabricate well-defined Ni-Co alloy NPs confined on the tip of N-CNTs as HDO catalyst. The resultant Ni-Co alloy catalyst possesses outstanding HDO performance towards biomass-derived vanillin into 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol in water with 100% conversion efficiency and selectivity under mild reaction conditions, surpassing the reported high performance nonprecious HDO catalysts. Impressively, our experimental results also unveil that the Ni-Co alloy catalyst can be generically applied to catalyze HDO of vanillin derivatives and other aromatic aldehydes in water with 100% conversion efficiency and over 90% selectivity. Importantly, our DFT calculations and experimental results confirm that the achieved outstanding HDO catalytic performance is due to the greatly promoted selective adsorption and activation of C=O, and desorption of the activated hydrogen species by the synergism of the alloyed Ni-Co NPs. The findings of this work affords a new strategy to design and develop efficient transition metal-based catalysts for HDO reactions in water.

Key words: Ni-Co alloy nanoparticles, Carbon nanotubes, Hydrodeoxygenation, Biomass derivatives, H₂O solvent

Dongdong Wang, Wanbing Gong, Jifang Zhang, Miaomiao Han, Chun Chen, Yunxia Zhang, Guozhong Wang, Haimin Zhang, Huijun Zhao. Encapsulated Ni-Co alloy nanoparticles as efficient catalyst for hydrodeoxygenation of biomass derivatives in water[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2021, 42(11): 2027-2037.

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Fig. 1. (a) Schematic diagram illustrating the synthetic procedure of NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF; Low and high magnification SEM images (b,c), low and high magnification TEM images (d,e) and HRTEM images (f) of NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF; (g,h) Contrast intensity profiles indicating the lattice parameter of NiCo alloy and C, respectively; (i) Line profile of a representative NiCo NP; (j) HAADF-STEM image and corresponding element mapping images.

Fig. 2. (a,b) XRD patterns of Ni@N-CNTs/CMF, Co@N-CNTs/CMF and NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF, respectively; (c) Ni 2p XPS spectra of Ni@N-CNTs/CMF and NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF; (d) Co 2p XPS spectra of Co@N-CNTs/CMF and NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF.

Fig. 3. Catalytic HDO of vanillin in water by NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF; (a) Effect of reaction temperature (2 MPa H2, 6 h); (b) Effect of H2 pressure (120 °C, 6 h); (c) Effect of reaction time (120 °C, 2 MPa H2); (d) Cyclic stability test (120 °C, 2 MPa H2, 1 h). Reaction solution: 10 mL H2O contains 30 mg catalyst and 0.5 mmol vanillin.

Fig. 4. Catalytic HDO of vanillin in water under 120 °C and 2 MPa H2 pressure by Ni@N-CNTs/CMF (a) and Co@N-CNTs/CMF (b); Plot of -ln(C/C0) against reaction time (c) and the corresponding reaction rate constants (d) for Ni@N-CNTs/CMF, Co@N-CNTs/CMF and NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF. Reaction solution: 10 mL H2O contains 30 mg catalyst and 0.5 mmol vanillin.

Fig. 5. (a) Optimized geometry for the configuration of vanillin adsorption on Ni (111), Co (111) and NiCo (111) surfaces. Grey, blue, brown, red, and pink spheres represent Ni, Co, C, O and H, respectively; (b) Adsorption energy of hydrogen on Ni (111), Co (111) and NiCo (111) surfaces; (c) H2-TPD profiles of Ni@N-CNTs/CMF, Co@N-CNTs/CMF and NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF.

Table 1 HDO of various substrates catalyzed by NiCo@N-CNTs/CMF catalyst a.

Entry	Time (h)	Conv. (%)	Sel. (%)
1	6	100	100
2	6	100	98.7
3	4	100	100
4	6	100	92.4
5	6	100	98.1
6	10	100	93.2
7	10	100	91.5

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