Polymer Assisted Route for the High Dispersion of Catalytic Metal Centers within an Encapsulating Porous Metal Oxide Support

A unique and versetil, polymer assisted, method for the formation of highly disspersed and sinter resistent supported metal active sites is demonstrated. We show our approach for highly dispersed nickel catalyst. Sinter resistants property is shown for supports having strong to weak metal support interactions such as Ni@ZrO₂, Ni@Al₂O₃ and Ni@SiO₂.