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A top-down strategy to realize the synthesis of small-sized L10-platinum-based intermetallic compounds for selective hydrogenation

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The synthesis of Pt-based nanoparticles (NPs) with ultrasmall feature and tailored structure is of great importance for catalysis yet challenging. In this work, we demonstrate a facile top-down strategy for the fabrication of small-sized Pt-based intermetallic compounds (IMCs) with L10 structure through the evaporation of Cd under high temperature. Impressively, such thermal treatment can be used as a versatile strategy for creating binary, ternary, quaternary, quinary, and senary L10-Pt-based IMCs. Moreover, the small-sized Pt-based IMCs display high stability against high temperature of 700 °C, which can serve as active and selective catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of 4-nitrophenylacetylene. This work may not only provide a versatile top-down strategy for fabricating highly stable small-sized Pt-based NPs with L10 structure, but also promote their extensive applications in catalysis and beyond.

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The authors thank the financial supports by the National Key Research and Development (R&D) Program of China (No. 2020YFB1505802), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2017YFA0208200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22025108, U21A20327, 22121001, and 51802206), Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 2021B1515020081), and startup supports from **amen University and Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials and Energy Storage Devices (No. 20195010002).

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  1. College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Yu **, Ling Li, Qi Shao & Jianmei Lu

  2. Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Energy Storage Devices, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Energy Materials, School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Guomian Ren & Yong Xu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, **amen University, **amen, 361005, China

    Yonggang Feng, Shize Geng & **aoqing Huang

  4. Testing & Analysis Center, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    **ng Zhu & Jun Guo

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**, Y., Ren, G., Feng, Y. et al. A top-down strategy to realize the synthesis of small-sized L10-platinum-based intermetallic compounds for selective hydrogenation. Nano Res. 15, 9631–9638 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4530-0

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