Abstract

Safe and efficient hydrogen storage is one of the key technologies for the widespread utilization of hydrogen energy. Formic acid (FA) is regarded as a safe and convenient chemical hydrogen storage material. However, the lack of highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts hinders its practical application. Herein, we presented a facile wet-impregnated deposition method to synthesize ultrafine AuPd alloy nanoparticles anchored on TiO2 nanosheets (AuPd/TiO2 nanosheets) which were used as high efficient catalysts for the dehydrogenation of FA. TiO2 nanosheets were calcined at different temperatures to modify the catalytic activity of catalyst. AuPd/TiO2 nanosheets-400 exhibits the superior activity for catalyzing the FA to release 96% of overall hydrogen content with an initial turnover frequency value of 592 mol H2 mol−1 metal h−1 at 25 °C and low activation energy of 11.8 kJ mol−1. Detailed characterizations show that the superior catalytic performance can be ascribed to the alloy structure of AuPd centers, the phase and crystallinity of TiO2 nanosheets, and the strong electron transfer interaction between AuPd nanoparticles and TiO2 nanosheets substrate.

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