Designing Pd-on-Au Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts for Trichloroethene Hydrodechlorination

by Michael O. Nutt, Joseph B. Hughes, & Michael S. Wong Environmental Science and Technology, 39 (2005) Trichloroethene pollution of groundwater has serious implications for human health and the environment, and is also expensive to clean up. Now, researchers at Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology, both in the US, have found that gold nanoparticles coated with palladium are extremely effective catalysts for breaking down the chemical into less harmful products. Read the article