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Sodpiban O, Kessaratikoon T, Smith J, Ren G, Del Gobbo S, Das S, Chi M, D'Elia V, Gates BC. Catalysts Prepared from Atomically Dispersed Ce(III) on MgO Rival Bulk Ceria for CO Oxidation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:55885-55894. [PMID: 37991323 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c13708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
Abstract
Atomically dispersed cerium catalysts on an inert, crystalline MgO powder support were prepared by using both Ce(III) and Ce(IV) precursors. The materials were used as catalysts for CO oxidation in a once-through flow reactor and characterized by atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and temperature-programmed reduction, among other techniques, before and after catalysis. The most active catalysts, formed from the precursor incorporating Ce(III), displayed performance similar to that reported for bulk ceria under comparable conditions. The catalyst provided stable time-on-stream performance for as long as it was kept on-stream, 2 days, increasing slightly in activity as the atomically dispersed cerium ions were transformed into ceria nanodomains represented as CeOx and having increased reducibility on the MgO support. The results suggest how highly dispersed supported ceria catalysts with low cerium loadings can be prepared and may pave the way for improved efficiencies of cerium utilization in oxidation catalysis.
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- Ounjit Sodpiban
- VISTEC Advanced Laboratory for Environment-Related Inorganic and Organic Syntheses, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Payupnai, WangChan, Rayong 21210, Thailand
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- VISTEC Advanced Laboratory for Environment-Related Inorganic and Organic Syntheses, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Payupnai, WangChan, Rayong 21210, Thailand
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- VISTEC Advanced Laboratory for Environment-Related Inorganic and Organic Syntheses, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Payupnai, WangChan, Rayong 21210, Thailand
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai 400076, India
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- VISTEC Advanced Laboratory for Environment-Related Inorganic and Organic Syntheses, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Payupnai, WangChan, Rayong 21210, Thailand
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Nucleation and growth are critical steps in crystallization, which plays an important role in determining crystal structure, size, morphology, and purity. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms of nucleation and growth is crucial to realize the controllable fabrication of crystalline products with desired and reproducible properties. Based on classical models, the initial crystal nucleus is formed by the spontaneous aggregation of ions, atoms, or molecules, and crystal growth is dependent on the monomer's diffusion and the surface reaction. Recently, numerous in situ investigations on crystallization dynamics have uncovered the existence of nonclassical mechanisms. This review provides a summary and highlights the in situ studies of crystal nucleation and growth, with a particular emphasis on the state-of-the-art research progress since the year 2016, and includes technological advances, atomic-scale observations, substrate- and temperature-dependent nucleation and growth, and the progress achieved in the various materials: metals, alloys, metallic compounds, colloids, and proteins. Finally, the forthcoming opportunities and challenges in this fascinating field are discussed.
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- Junjie Li
- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi830011, China.,Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
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- Nanostructured Materials Group, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Av. Mestre Jose Veiga, 4715-330Braga, Portugal
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Quinson J. Osmium and OsO x nanoparticles: an overview of syntheses and applications. OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE 2022; 2:39. [PMID: 37645302 PMCID: PMC10446100 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14595.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Precious metal nanoparticles are key for a range of applications ranging from catalysis and sensing to medicine. While gold (Au), silver (Ag), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd) or ruthenium (Ru) nanoparticles have been widely studied, other precious metals are less investigated. Osmium (Os) is one of the least studied of the precious metals. However, Os nanoparticles are interesting materials since they present unique features compared to other precious metals and Os nanomaterials have been reported to be useful for a range of applications, catalysis or sensing for instance. With the increasing availability of advanced characterization techniques, investigating the properties of relatively small Os nanoparticles and clusters has become easier and it can be expected that our knowledge on Os nanomaterials will increase in the coming years. This review aims to give an overview on Os and Os oxide materials syntheses and applications.
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- Jonathan Quinson
- Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Jia Z, Peng M, Cai X, Chen Y, Chen X, Huang F, Zhao L, Diao J, Wang N, Xiao D, Wen X, Jiang Z, Liu H, Ma D. Fully Exposed Platinum Clusters on a Nanodiamond/Graphene Hybrid for Efficient Low-Temperature CO Oxidation. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c02769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Zhimin Jia
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Materials, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, No. 19A Yuanquan Road, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Materials, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China
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- Center for Integrative Materials Discovery, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, No. 19A Yuanquan Road, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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Cooper C, Dooley KM, Fierro-Gonzalez JC, Guzman J, Jentoft R, Lamb HH, Ogino I, Runnebaum RC, Sapre A, Uzun A. Bruce Gates: A Career in Catalysis. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Cawas Cooper
- Codexis Inc., 200 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City, California 94063, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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- Departamento de Ingenieria Quimica, Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico en Celaya, Av. Tecnologico y Antonio Garcia Cubas s/n, Celaya, Guanajuato 38010, Mexico
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- ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co., 22777 Springwood Village Parkway, Spring, Texas 77389, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 154D Goessmann Laboratory, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9303, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7905, United States
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- Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Viticulture & Enology, University of California−Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Reliance Industries Ltd., Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, 400701, Mumbai, Maharashtra India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer, 34450, Istanbul, Turkey
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Cui X, Li W, Ryabchuk P, Junge K, Beller M. Bridging homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis by heterogeneous single-metal-site catalysts. Nat Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0090-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 482] [Impact Index Per Article: 80.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Metal Clusters Dispersed on Oxide Supports: Preparation Methods and Metal-Support Interactions. Top Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s11244-018-0957-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Yang D, Zhang S, Xu P, Browning ND, Dixon DA, Gates BC. Single-Site Osmium Catalysts on MgO: Reactivity and Catalysis of CO Oxidation. Chemistry 2017; 23:2532-2536. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201605131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Dong Yang
- Department of Chemical Engineering and (formerly) Materials Science; University of California; Davis California 95616 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Box 87036; Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0336 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and (formerly) Materials Science; University of California; Davis California 95616 USA
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- Physical and Computational Sciences; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; 902 Battelle Boulevard Richland Washington 99352 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Box 87036; Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0336 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and (formerly) Materials Science; University of California; Davis California 95616 USA
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Serna P, Gates BC. Molecular metal catalysts on supports: organometallic chemistry meets surface science. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:2612-20. [PMID: 25036259 DOI: 10.1021/ar500170k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recent advances in the synthesis and characterization of small, essentially molecular metal complexes and metal clusters on support surfaces have brought new insights to catalysis and point the way to systematic catalyst design. We summarize recent work unraveling effects of key design variables of site-isolated catalysts: the metal, metal nuclearity, support, and other ligands on the metals, also considering catalysts with separate, complementary functions on supports. The catalysts were synthesized with the goal of structural simplicity and uniformity to facilitate incisive characterization. Thus, they are essentially molecular species bonded to porous supports chosen for their high degree of uniformity; the supports are crystalline aluminosilicates (zeolites) and MgO. The catalytic species are synthesized in reactions of organometallic precursors with the support surfaces; the precursors include M(L)2(acetylacetonate)1-2, with M = Ru, Rh, Ir, or Au and the ligands L = C2H4, CO, or CH3. Os3(CO)12 and Ir4(CO)12 are used as precursors of supported metal clusters, and some such catalysts are made by ship-in-a-bottle syntheses to trap the clusters in zeolite cages. The simplicity and uniformity of the supported catalysts facilitate precise structure determinations, even in reactive atmospheres and during catalysis. The methods of characterizing catalysts in reactive atmospheres include infrared (IR), extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopies, and complementary methods include density functional theory and atomic-resolution aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy for imaging of individual metal atoms. IR, NMR, XANES, and microscopy data demonstrate the high degrees of uniformity of well-prepared supported species. The characterizations determine the compositions of surface metal complexes and clusters, including the ligands and the metal-support bonding and structure, which identify the supports as ligands with electron-donor properties that influence reactivity and catalysis. Each of the catalyst design variables has been varied independently, illustrated by mononuclear and tetranuclear iridium on zeolite HY and on MgO and by isostructural rhodium and iridium (diethylene or dicarbonyl) complexes on these supports. The data provide examples resolving the roles of the catalyst design variables and place the catalysis science on a firm foundation of organometallic chemistry linked with surface science. Supported molecular catalysts offer the advantages of characterization in the absence of solvents and with surface-science methods that do not require ultrahigh vacuum. Families of supported metal complexes have been made by replacement of ligands with others from the gas phase. Spectroscopically identified catalytic reaction intermediates help to elucidate catalyst performance and guide design. The methods are illustrated for supported complexes and clusters of rhodium, iridium, osmium, and gold used to catalyze reactions of small molecules that facilitate identification of the ligands present during catalysis: alkene dimerization and hydrogenation, H-D exchange in the reaction of H2 with D2, and CO oxidation. The approach is illustrated with the discovery of a highly active and selective MgO-supported rhodium carbonyl dimer catalyst for hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene to give butenes.
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- Pedro Serna
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
- Instituto
de Tecnología Química. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia−Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avda.
de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Dixon DA, Katz A, Arslan I, Gates BC. Beyond Relationships Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis. Catal Letters 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10562-014-1332-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Chen M, Felmy AR, Dixon DA. Structures and Stabilities of (MgO)n Nanoclusters. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:3136-46. [DOI: 10.1021/jp412820z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Mingyang Chen
- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Fundamental Sciences
Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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