Electrostatic Interaction-Controlled Formation of Pickering Emulsion for Continuous Flow Catalysis
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2021
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Peng, F.
Xu, J.
Xu, H.
Bao, H.
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ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2021; 13(1):1872-1882
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Although noble metal or non-noble metal-catalyzed reactions are widely used, it is still difficult to apply these reactions in the large-scale synthesis of chemicals because most of the reactions are carried out by the inefficient batch reaction strategy. Herein, Pickering emulsion-based continuous flow catalysis was utilized to address this problem. Cellulose nanofibers with aldehyde groups (ACNF) were generated through oxidizing C2 and C3 hydroxyl groups of cellulose nanofibers into aldehyde groups by NaIO<sub>4</sub>, followed by <i>in situ</i> depositing Ag nanoparticles on ACNF to produce Ag-decorated ACNF (ACNF@Ag) via a facile aldehyde-induced reduction method. ACNF@Ag with ∼2 wt % Ag (ACNF@Ag2) has been used to prepare the Pickering emulsion by controlling the electrostatic interaction between ACNF@Ag2 and the oil-water interface via adjusting the pH. It was found that the Pickering emulsion could be generated at a pH around 3.29 and was determined to be the oil-in-water emulsion. The reduction of organic molecules (4-nitrophenol (4-NP), methylene blue (MB), and methyl orange (MO)) was selected as a model reaction to test the reliability of the Pickering emulsion in continuous flow catalysis, which demonstrated very high conversion rates for 4-NP (>98%, 50 h), MB (>99%, 30 h), and MO (>96%, 40 h).
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Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available after 1 January 2022