A facile synthetic strategy for the creation of hollow noble metal/transition metal oxide nanocomposites

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jan 22;55(8):1076-1079. doi: 10.1039/c8cc06650g.

Abstract

We have reported an efficient synthetic protocol to build different hollow hybrid nanocomposites with tunable compositions, such as Au/TiO2, Pt/ZrO2, and Au/CexTi1-xO2. The noble metal nanoparticles were well encapsulated in a wall composed of the designated transition metal oxides, showing promising potential as stable catalysts as demonstrated by Pt/ZrO2 for methane combustion.