Palladium(II) nitrate is used as a reactant for doping activated carbon for catalysis. It acts as a catalyst for hydrogenation of 1-heptyne and naphthalene. It serves as an important raw material for the preparation of platinum-palladium carbon alloy nanocatalysts for methanol-tolerant oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells and in the synthesis of copper palladium alloy thin films. Furthermore, it is used in the synthesis of di-phenyl sulfide-modified palladium-titanium dioxide catalysts for acetylene hydrogenation.

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