Pd Nanoparticles-Loaded Vinyl Polymer Gels: Preparation, Structure and Catalysis
catalysts Article Pd Nanoparticles-Loaded Vinyl Polymer Gels: Preparation, Structure and Catalysis Elsayed Elbayoumy 1,2 , Yuting Wang 1, Jamil Rahman 1,3, Claudio Trombini 3, Masayoshi Bando 1, Zhiyi Song 1, Mostafa A. Diab 2, Farid S. Mohamed 2, Naofumi Naga 4 and Tamaki Nakano 1,5,* 1 Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan; elbayoumysayed@gmail.com (E.E.); yuting.wang@polymer.cat.hokudai.ac.jp (Y.W.); anisurj@gmail.com (J.R.); masayoshi.bando@cat.hokudai.ac.jp (M.B.); songzhiyi@cat.hokudai.ac.jp (Z.S.) 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta 34517, Egypt; m_adiab@du.edu.eg (M.A.D.); faridsh@mans.edu.eg (F.S.M.) 3 Dipartimento di Chimica “G. Ciamician”, Università degli Studi di Bologna, via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy; claudio.trombini@unibo.it 4 Department of Applied Chemistry, Shibaura Institute of Technology, College of Engineering, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan; nnaga@shibaura-it.ac.jp 5 Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences (IRCCS), Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan * Correspondence: tamaki.nakano@cat.hokudai.ac.jp; Tel.: +81-11-706-9155 Abstract: Four vinyl polymer gels (VPGs) were synthesized by free radical polymerization of divinyl- benzene, ethane-1,2-diyl dimethacrylate, and copolymerization of divinylbenzene with styrene, and ethane-1,2-diyl dimethacrylate with methyl methacrylate, as supports for palladium nanoparticles. VPGs obtained from divinylbenzene and from divinylbenzene with styrene had spherical shapes while those obtained from ethane-1,2-diyl dimethacrylate and from ethane-1,2-diyl dimethacry- late with methyl methacrylate did not have any specific shapes.
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