Abstract
Herein, the authors report that TiO2 supported ruthenium nanoparticles (Ru(0)/TiO2) during hydrolysis starting with RuCl3/TiO2 precatalyst act as highly active, long-lived, and reusable nanocatalyst in the hydrogen generation from the hydrolysis of ammonia-borane (NH3BH3) at room temperature. The resulting Ru(0)/TiO2 catalyze hydrogen generation from the hydrolysis of ammonia-borane with an initial turnover frequency value of 200 min−1 at 25 ± 0.1°C. More importantly, Ru(0)/TiO2 are stable enough to be isolated and bottled as solid material, which can be reused as active catalyst under the identical conditions of the first run.
Funding
The authors thank the Presidency of Scientific Research Projects of University of Yüzüncü Yıl for the financial support.