Compartmentalization: Nanosilica‐Confined Synthesis of Orthogonally Active Catalytic Metal Nanocrystals in the Compartmentalized Carbon Framework (Small 25/2019)

In article number 1901280, In Su Lee and co-workers develop a synthetic strategy toward customizable nanospatial grouping of orthogonally reactive nanocatalysts within interconnected carbon-cavities as a compartmentalized framework, employing aminated-silica-directed thermal solid-state nanoconfined nanocrystals synthesis and endotemplating concomitant carbonization-mediated interlocking. The utility of the compartmentalized system shows an efficient cascade oxidation of cinnamyl alchohol → cinnamaldehyde → cinnamic acid using Pd and Pt catalytic nanocrystals (NCs), and also oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction using Pt and Ir NCs.