Palladium-based nanostructures with highly porous features and perpendicular pore channels as enhanced organic catalysts.

Channeling a good catalyst: Highly porous palladium nanostructures (pPdNs) with perpendicular pore channels were prepared under mild conditions. The combination of high surface area and rich edge/corner atoms gives pPdNs better catalytic performance than known Pd catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene and styrene and the Suzuki coupling reaction.