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Vol. 11 (2019)

Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Gold@Polydopamine Nanoreactors with Multi-compartment Structure Under NIR Irradiation

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0314-9
Shilin Mei
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn‑Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
Zdravko Kochovski
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn‑Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
Rafael Roa
Department of Applied Physics I, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Sasa Gu
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210000, People’s Republic of China
Xiaohui Xu
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn‑Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
Hongtao Yu
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn‑Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
Joachim Dzubiella
Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Matthias Ballauff
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn‑Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
Yan Lu
Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholt

Corresponding Author: Yan Lu

yan.lu@helmholtz‑berlin.de

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 11 (2019), Article Number: 83

Abstract

Photothermal conversion (PTC) nanostructures have great potential for applications in many fields, and therefore, they have attracted tremendous attention. However, the construction of a PTC nanoreactor with multi-compartment structure to achieve the combination of unique chemical properties and structural feature is still challenging due to the synthetic difficulties. Herein, we designed and synthesized a catalytically active, PTC gold (Au)@polydopamine (PDA) nanoreactor driven by infrared irradiation using assembled PS-b-P2VP nanosphere as soft template. The particles exhibit multi-compartment structure which is revealed by 3D electron tomography characterization technique. They feature permeable shells with tunable shell thickness. Full kinetics for the reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol has been investigated using these particles as nanoreactors and compared with other reported systems. Notably, a remarkable acceleration of the catalytic reaction upon near-infrared irradiation is demonstrated, which reveals for the first time the importance of the synergistic effect of photothermal conversion and complex inner structure to the kinetics of the catalytic reduction. The ease of synthesis and fresh insights into catalysis will promote a new platform for novel nanoreactor studies.


Highlights:


1 Gold@polydopamine particles with multi-compartment structure were synthesized by using block copolymer of PS-b-P2VP as soft template and characterized by 3D electron tomography technique.
2 The particles can be applied as catalytic nanoreactors for the full kinetic study of reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol by NaBH4.
3 The nanoreactors show remarkable enhancement of the catalytic activity under NIR irradiation.

Keywords

Gold@polydopamine 3D tomography Nanoreactor Catalysis Photothermal conversion
Mei, Shilin, Zdravko Kochovski, Rafael Roa, Sasa Gu, Xiaohui Xu, Hongtao Yu, Joachim Dzubiella, Matthias Ballauff, and Yan Lu. 2019. “Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Gold@Polydopamine Nanoreactors With Multi-Compartment Structure Under NIR Irradiation”. Nano-Micro Letters 11 (October):83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0314-9.
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