Silver Decorated Graphene-Polyvinyl Alcohol Hybrid Hydrogel as Catalyst for Benzonitrile Conversion
In this work, we have synthetized a reduced graphene oxide functionalized with silver nanoparticles (G/Ag) by a method developed in our previous study and incorporated it in a hydrogel based on polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as gelator through a freezing/thawing method. The hydrogel has been
tested to catalyze the reduction at room temperature of nitrile group of benzonitrile in water by using glucose as a natural and mild reducing agent.
Keywords: Catalyst; Hybrid Hydrogel; Nitrile Reduction; Silver Decorated Graphene
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Industrial Engineering and Centre NANO_MATES, University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy 2: Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Publication date: June 1, 2017
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