@article {Veerakumar201523448,
	title = {Highly stable ruthenium nanoparticles on 3D mesoporous carbon: An excellent opportunity for reduction reactions},
	journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry A},
	volume = {3},
	number = {46},
	year = {2015},
	note = {<p>cited By 10</p>
},
	pages = {23448-23457},
	abstract = {<p>Carbon mesoporous materials (CPMs) have great potential in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. Highly dispersed ruthenium nanoparticles (RuNPs) embedded in three dimensional (3D) CPMs as catalysts with a high surface area (1474 m2 g-1) were prepared by microwave-thermal reduction processes. Characterization technologies including X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 adsorption/desorption isotherm measurements, field emission transmission electron microscopy (FE-TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), hydrogen temperature-programmed reduction (H2-TPR), Raman spectroscopy and 13C solid state cross polarization and magic angle spinning (13C CP/MAS) NMR spectroscopy were utilized to scrutinize the catalysts. It was revealed that the Ru/CPM catalysts exhibited a highly ordered 3D mesoporous structure and a large surface area and were widely used as catalysts for reduction reactions. Reduction of p-nitroaniline (p-NA) and crystal violet (CV) using NaBH4 with the use of this catalyst was studied by means of UV-vis spectroscopy. Here, NaBH4 acts as a hydrogen donor. This catalyst shows an excellent catalytic activity towards reduction of p-NA and CV dye at room temperature. Due to the promising properties of CPMs, they can be utilized to fabricate 3D carbon-based materials for a variety of novel applications. {\textcopyright} The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015.</p>
},
	keywords = {Adsorption/desorption, C (programming language), Carbon based materials, Catalysis, Catalyst activity, Catalysts, Characterization, Field-emission transmission electron microscopies, High resolution transmission electron microscopy, Hydrogen temperature programmed reduction, Isotherm measurement, Magic angle spinning, Mesoporous materials, Mesoporous structures, Metal nanoparticles, NANOPARTICLES, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Ruthenium, Ruthenium Nanoparticles, Thermogravimetric analysis, Threedimensional (3-d), Transmission electron microscopy, Ultraviolet visible spectroscopy, X ray diffraction},
	doi = {10.1039/c5ta06875d},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84947755175\&doi=10.1039\%2fc5ta06875d\&partnerID=40\&md5=c94306bec7a57e2c8a5692f578adae70},
	author = {P. Veerakumar and Dhenadhayalan, N. and Lin, K.-C. and Liu, S.-B.}
}
