S. Tanabe et al., PREPARATION OF FINELY DISPERSED-PALLADIUM METAL IN ZEOLITE BY HIGH FREQUENCY-ULTRASONIC IRRADIATION, Chemistry Letters, (4), 1996, pp. 327-328
New technique to prepare finely dispersed metallic species in a zeolit
ic framework has been developed by a high frequency-ultrasonic (HFUS)
irradiation. The parent Pd ions in the zeolite were reduced with isopr
opyl alcohol into carbon containing Pd metal during the irradiation. T
hese species was observed by EXAFS analysis to be highly dispersed int
o small clusters consisted of less than several atoms in zeolitic crys
tal.