The precise fabrication of efficient
catalysts for CO oxidation is of particular interest in a wide range
of industrial and environmental applications. Herein, a scalable method
is presented for the controlled synthesis of graphitic-like porous
carbon nitride nanotubes (gC3N4NTs) codoped
with Au and Pd (Au/Pd/gC3N4NTs) as efficient
catalysts for carbon monoxide (CO) conversion. This includes the activation
of melamine with nitric acid in the presence of ethylene glycol and
metal precursors followed by consecutive polymerization and carbonization.
This drives the formation of porous one-dimensional gC3N4NT with an outstanding surface area of (320.6 m2 g–1) and an atomic-level distribution of
Au and Pd. Intriguingly, the CO conversion efficiency of Au/Pd/gC3N4NTs was substantially greater than that for gC3N4NTs. The approach thus presented may provide
new avenues for the utilization of gC3N4 doped
with multiple metal-based catalysts for CO conversion reactions which
had been rarely reported before.
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