A facile route for the preparation of new Pd/La2O3 catalyst with the lowest palladium loading by a new reduction system as a high performance catalyst towards ethanol oxidation

In this work, a novel method is introduced for the production of uniformly ultra-small palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) using lanthanum oxide nanoparticles (La2O3NPs) as an adsorbing support and a promoter. Here, the Zn/HCl system is also adopted as a reducing agent. The high distribution and small-size PdNPs, decorated on clean surface of La2O3NPs, are successfully fabricated. X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy...