Ethanol Production Inside Carbon Nanotubes
Meridian Institute:
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have used carbon nanotubes loaded with rhodium nanoparticles as reactors to produce ethanol from a gas mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
The researchers had previously found that they could “tune” the unique catalytic properties of metal nanoparticles by encapsulating them within carbon nanotubes. They report that the nanotube-encapsulated rhodium nanoparticles were significantly more catalytically active than dispersed rhodium nanoparticles.
The article says that carbon nanotube-encapsulated metal nanoparticles may also have applications in composite materials, magnetic sensors, and storage materials.
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