The invention provides a preparation method and application of a
palladium / silver
alloy nanocatalyst. The preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing a certain amount of Pd and Ag
metal precursors, dissolving the Pd and Ag
metal precursors into an absolute
ethanol solution respectively, stirring, mixing, adding an
alcohol solution of an organic modifier, mixing and stirring for 20 min at 30-60 DEG C, adjusting the pH value of a reaction solution with an
ethanol solution of NaOH, raising the temperature to 70 DEG C, dropwise adding an
ethanol solution of hydrazine
hydrate /
ascorbic acid with a certain concentration into the reaction solution, reacting for 4-8 h, washing for multiple times with absolute ethanol, and performing
vacuum drying to obtain the
palladium / silver
alloy nanocatalyst. The
palladium / silver
alloy nanocatalyst prepared by the preparation method provided by the invention is applied to a reaction for preparing 1-aminoanthraquinone through
catalytic hydrogenation of 1-nitroanthraquinone, and shows high catalytic activity and stability; in addition, by a method for preparing 1-aminoanthraquinone by using the palladium / silver alloy nanocatalyst, a process requirement is simple, the using amount of the catalyst is small, environment friendliness is achieved, and industrial requirements are met.