We report the first synthesis of a powdery heterogeneous catalyst using spark ablation technology. A TiO2 powder is aerosolized in a vortex and injected close to the electrode of a spark ablation nanoparticle generator, to be decorated with Ni nanoparticles. The resulting Ni/TiO2 catalyst is readily active in the hydrogenation of CO2 to methane.
Debecker, D., Hongmanorom, P., Pfeiffer, T. V., Zijlstra, B., Zhao, Y., Casale, S., & Sassoye, C. (2024). Spark ablation: a dry, physical, and continuous method to prepare powdery metal nanoparticle-based catalysts. Chemical Communications, 60(79), 11076-11079. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc03469d (Original work published 2024)