A one-step and scalable production route to metal nanocatalyst supported polymer nanospheres via flash nanoprecipitation

• DOI: 10.1039/c4ta04036h
• Publication Date: 2014-09-22T13:30:13Z
• Authors: Rui Liu; Chris Sosa; Yao-Wen Yeh; Fengli Qu; Nan Yao; Robert K. Prud'homme; Rodney D. Priestley
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

We report a scalable and continuous preparation route for metal nanoparticles (Au or Pt)@nanosphere polymer composites through flash nanoprecipitation (FNP). Uniform metal@nanosphere with 2–3 nm colloids decorating the surface on nanosphere are obtained tunable overall particle size nanoparticle arrangement. The show high catalytic ability stability in reduction of p-nitrophenol.