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Maqbool Q, Dobrezberger K, Stropp J, Huber M, Kontrus KL, Aspalter A, Neuhauser J, Schachinger T, Löffler S, Rupprechter G. Bimetallic CuPd nanoparticles supported on ZnO or graphene for CO 2 and CO conversion to methane and methanol. RSC SUSTAINABILITY 2024:d4su00339j. [PMID: 39323512 PMCID: PMC11418587 DOI: 10.1039/d4su00339j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2024] [Accepted: 09/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/27/2024]
Abstract
Carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) hydrogenation to methane (CH4) or methanol (MeOH) is a promising pathway to reduce CO2 emissions and to mitigate dependence on rapidly depleting fossil fuels. Along these lines, a series of catalysts comprising copper (Cu) or palladium (Pd) nanoparticles (NPs) supported on zinc oxide (ZnO) as well as bimetallic CuPd NPs supported on ZnO or graphene were synthesized via various methodologies. The prepared catalysts underwent comprehensive characterization via high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) mapping, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), hydrogen temperature-programmed reduction and desorption (H2-TPR and H2-TPD), and deuterium temperature-programmed desorption (D2O-TPD). In the CO2 hydrogenation process carried out at 20 bar and elevated temperatures (300 to 500 °C), Cu, Pd, and CuPd NPs (<5 wt% loading) supported on ZnO or graphene predominantly yielded CH4 as the primary product, with CO generated as a byproduct via the reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reaction. For CO hydrogenation between 400 and 500 °C, the CO conversion was at least 40% higher than the CO2 conversion, with CH4 and CO2 identified as the main products, the latter from water gas shift. Employing 90 wt% Cu on ZnO led to an enhanced CO conversion of 14%, with the MeOH yield reaching 10% and the CO2 yield reaching 4.3% at 230 °C. Overall, the results demonstrate that lower Cu/Pd loading (<5 wt%) supported on ZnO/graphene favored CH4 production, while higher Cu content (90 wt%) promoted MeOH production, for both CO2 and CO hydrogenation at high pressure.
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- Qaisar Maqbool
- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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- University Service Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy, TU Wien Stadionallee 2/057-02 1020 Vienna Austria
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- University Service Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy, TU Wien Stadionallee 2/057-02 1020 Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/BC 1060 Vienna Austria
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Jensen S, Mammen MHR, Hedevang M, Li Z, Lammich L, Lauritsen JV. Visualizing the gas-sensitive structure of the CuZn surface in methanol synthesis catalysis. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3865. [PMID: 38719827 PMCID: PMC11079032 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48168-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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Methanol formation over Cu/ZnO catalysts is linked with a catalytically active phase created by contact between Cu nanoparticles and Zn species whose chemical and structural state depends on reaction conditions. Herein, we use variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy at elevated pressure conditions combined with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements to investigate the surface structures and chemical states that evolve when a CuZn/Cu(111) surface alloy is exposed to reaction gas mixtures. In CO2 hydrogenation conditions, Zn stays embedded in the CuZn surface, but once CO gas is added to the mixture, the Zn segregates onto the Cu surface. The Zn segregation is CO-induced, and establishes a new dynamic state of the catalyst surface where Zn is continually exchanged at the Cu surface. Candidates for the migrating few-atom Zn clusters are further identified in time-resolved imaging series. The findings point to a significant role of CO affecting the distribution of Zn in the multiphasic ZnO/CuZn/Cu catalysts.
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- Sigmund Jensen
- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Beck A, Newton MA, van de Water LGA, van Bokhoven JA. The Enigma of Methanol Synthesis by Cu/ZnO/Al 2O 3-Based Catalysts. Chem Rev 2024; 124:4543-4678. [PMID: 38564235 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The activity and durability of the Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 (CZA) catalyst formulation for methanol synthesis from CO/CO2/H2 feeds far exceed the sum of its individual components. As such, this ternary catalytic system is a prime example of synergy in catalysis, one that has been employed for the large scale commercial production of methanol since its inception in the mid 1960s with precious little alteration to its original formulation. Methanol is a key building block of the chemical industry. It is also an attractive energy storage molecule, which can also be produced from CO2 and H2 alone, making efficient use of sequestered CO2. As such, this somewhat unusual catalyst formulation has an enormous role to play in the modern chemical industry and the world of global economics, to which the correspondingly voluminous and ongoing research, which began in the 1920s, attests. Yet, despite this commercial success, and while research aimed at understanding how this formulation functions has continued throughout the decades, a comprehensive and universally agreed upon understanding of how this material achieves what it does has yet to be realized. After nigh on a century of research into CZA catalysts, the purpose of this Review is to appraise what has been achieved to date, and to show how, and how far, the field has evolved. To do so, this Review evaluates the research regarding this catalyst formulation in a chronological order and critically assesses the validity and novelty of various hypotheses and claims that have been made over the years. Ultimately, the Review attempts to derive a holistic summary of what the current body of literature tells us about the fundamental sources of the synergies at work within the CZA catalyst and, from this, suggest ways in which the field may yet be further advanced.
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- Arik Beck
- Institute for Chemistry and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 23 Prague 8, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Chemistry and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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Kordus D, Widrinna S, Timoshenko J, Lopez Luna M, Rettenmaier C, Chee SW, Ortega E, Karslioglu O, Kühl S, Roldan Cuenya B. Enhanced Methanol Synthesis from CO 2 Hydrogenation Achieved by Tuning the Cu-ZnO Interaction in ZnO/Cu 2O Nanocube Catalysts Supported on ZrO 2 and SiO 2. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:8677-8687. [PMID: 38472104 PMCID: PMC10979448 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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The nature of the Cu-Zn interaction and especially the role of Zn in Cu/ZnO catalysts used for methanol synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation are still debated. Migration of Zn onto the Cu surface during reaction results in a Cu-ZnO interface, which is crucial for the catalytic activity. However, whether a Cu-Zn alloy or a Cu-ZnO structure is formed and the transformation of this interface under working conditions demand further investigation. Here, ZnO/Cu2O core-shell cubic nanoparticles with various ZnO shell thicknesses, supported on SiO2 or ZrO2 were prepared to create an intimate contact between Cu and ZnO. The evolution of the catalyst's structure and composition during and after the CO2 hydrogenation reaction were investigated by means of operando spectroscopy, diffraction, and ex situ microscopy methods. The Zn loading has a direct effect on the oxidation state of Zn, which, in turn, affects the catalytic performance. High Zn loadings, resulting in a stable ZnO catalyst shell, lead to increased methanol production when compared to Zn-free particles. Low Zn loadings, in contrast, leading to the presence of metallic Zn species during reaction, showed no significant improvement over the bare Cu particles. Therefore, our work highlights that there is a minimum content of Zn (or optimum ZnO shell thickness) needed to activate the Cu catalyst. Furthermore, in order to minimize catalyst deactivation, the Zn species must be present as ZnOx and not metallic Zn or Cu-Zn alloy, which is undesirably formed during the reaction when the precatalyst ZnO overlayer is too thin.
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- David Kordus
- Department
of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz-Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Electronic Structure and Photocatalytic Water Splitting Application of a New Type II g-ZnO/Ga2SSe van der waals Heterostructure. Catal Letters 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10562-023-04299-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
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Ullah SS, Din HU, Ahmad S, Alam Q, Sardar S, Amin B, Farooq M, Nguyen CQ, Nguyen CV. Theoretical prediction of the electronic structure, optical properties and photocatalytic performance of type-I SiS/GeC and type-II SiS/ZnO heterostructures. RSC Adv 2023; 13:7436-7442. [PMID: 36895771 PMCID: PMC9990377 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra01061a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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Nowadays, it would be ideal to develop high-performance photovoltaic devices as well as highly efficient photocatalysts for the production of hydrogen via photocatalytic water splitting, which is a feasible and sustainable energy source for addressing the challenges related to environmental pollution and a shortage of energy. In this work, we employ first-principles calculations to investigate the electronic structure, optical properties and photocatalytic performance of novel SiS/GeC and SiS/ZnO heterostructures. Our results indicate that both the SiS/GeC and SiS/ZnO heterostructures are structurally and thermodynamically stable at room temperature, suggesting that they are promising materials for experimental implementation. The formation of SiS/GeC and SiS/ZnO heterostructures gives rise to reduction of the band gaps as compared to the constituent monolayers, enhancing the optical absorption. Furthermore, the SiS/GeC heterostructure possesses a type-I straddling gap with a direct band gap, while the SiS/ZnO heterostructure forms a type-II band alignment with indirect band gap. Moreover, a red-shift (blue-shift) has been observed in SiS/GeC (SiS/ZnO) heterostructures as compared with the constituent monolayers, enhancing the efficient separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs, thereby making them promising candidates for optoelectronic applications and solar energy conversion. More interestingly, significant charge transfers at the interfaces of SiS-ZnO heterostructures, have improved the adsorption of H, and the Gibbs free energy ΔH* becomes close to zero, which is optimal for the hydrogen evolution reaction to produce hydrogen. The findings pave the path for the practical realization of these heterostructures for potential applications in photovoltaics and photocatalysis of water splitting.
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- S S Ullah
- Department of Physics, Hazara University Mansehra KP Pakistan
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- Computational Science Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Seoul 02792 Republic of Korea .,Department of Physics, Bacha Khan University Charsadda KP Pakistan
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of New Energy Material Chemistry, Nankai University Tianjin 300350 P. R. China
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- Department of Physics, Hazara University Mansehra KP Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Hazara University Mansehra KP Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Abbottabad University of Science & Technology Havelian Abbottabad KP Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Bacha Khan University Charsadda KP Pakistan
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- Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam .,Faculty of Natural Sciences, Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Le Quy Don Technical University Hanoi Vietnam
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Supported metal clusters: Nix/CuZnAl catalysts effectively improve the performance of hydrogen evolution from methylcyclohexane dehydrogenation. J Taiwan Inst Chem Eng 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2023.104719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Cheng Z, Jiang C, Sun X, Lan G, Wang X, He L, Li Y, Tang H, Li Y. Insights into the Inducing Effect of Aluminum on Cu–ZnO Synergy for Methanol Steam Reforming. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c01790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Zaizhe Cheng
- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18, Hangzhou 310014, China
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Shao Y, Kosari M, Xi S, Zeng HC. Single Solid Precursor-Derived Three-Dimensional Nanowire Networks of CuZn-Silicate for CO 2 Hydrogenation to Methanol. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c00726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yu Shao
- Integrative Sciences and Engineering Program, NUS Graduate School, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore
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- Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, 627833, Singapore
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- Integrative Sciences and Engineering Program, NUS Graduate School, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore
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Abstract
High-efficiency utilization of CO2 facilitates the reduction of CO2 concentration in the global atmosphere and hence the alleviation of the greenhouse effect. The catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to produce value-added chemicals exhibits attractive prospects by potentially building energy recycling loops. Particularly, methanol is one of the practically important objective products, and the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to synthesize methanol has been extensively studied. In this review, we focus on some basic concepts on CO2 activation, the recent research advances in the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol, the development of high-performance catalysts, and microscopic insight into the reaction mechanisms. Finally, some thinking on the present research and possible future trend is presented.
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Schlögl R. Chemische Batterien mit CO
2. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202007397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Robert Schlögl
- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion Stiftstraße 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Deutschland
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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Efforts to obtain raw materials from CO2 by catalytic reduction as a means of combating greenhouse gas emissions are pushing the boundaries of the chemical industry. The dimensions of modern energy regimes, on the one hand, and the necessary transport and trade of globally produced renewable energy, on the other, will require the use of chemical batteries in conjunction with the local production of renewable electricity. The synthesis of methanol is an important option for chemical batteries and will, for that reason, be described here in detail. It is also shown that the necessary, robust, and fundamental understanding of processes and the material science of catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO2 does not yet exist.
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- Robert Schlögl
- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische EnergiekonversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-GesellschaftFaradayweg 4–614195BerlinGermany
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Cu-Ga3+-doped wurtzite ZnO interface as driving force for enhanced methanol production in co-precipitated Cu/ZnO/Ga2O3 catalysts. J Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2022.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Saedy S, Newton MA, Zabilskiy M, Lee JH, Krumeich F, Ranocchiari M, van Bokhoven JA. Copper–zinc oxide interface as a methanol-selective structure in Cu–ZnO catalyst during catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol. Catal Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cy00224h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The proper contact of zinc oxide and copper phases is essential achieving high activity/selectivity toward methanol in the Cu–ZnO system.
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- Saeed Saedy
- Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Chemistry and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
- Institute for Chemistry and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Kartamyshev A, Vu TV, Ahmad S, Al-Qaisi S, Dang TD, Tri Dang NL, Hieu NN. First-principles calculations to investigate electronic properties of ZnO/PtSSe van der Waals heterostructure: Effects of vertical strain and electric field. Chem Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2021.111333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Fehr SM, Nguyen K, Njel C, Krossing I. Enhancement of Methanol Synthesis by Oxidative Fluorination of Cu/ZnO Catalysts─Insights from Surface Analyses. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c03735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Samuel M. Fehr
- Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Str. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut für Angewandte Materialien, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Str. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Yang F, Zhao H, Wang W, Wang L, Zhang L, Liu T, Sheng J, Zhu S, He D, Lin L, He J, Wang R, Li Y. Atomic origins of the strong metal-support interaction in silica supported catalysts. Chem Sci 2021; 12:12651-12660. [PMID: 34703550 PMCID: PMC8494123 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03480d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Silica supported metal catalysts are most widely used in the modern chemical industry because of the high stability and tunable reactivity. The strong metal–support interaction (SMSI), which has been widely observed in metal oxide supported catalysts and significantly affects the catalytic behavior, has been speculated to rarely happen in silica supported catalysts since silica is hard to reduce. Here we revealed at the atomic scale the interfacial reaction induced SMSI in silica supported Co and Pt catalysts under reductive conditions at high temperature using aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscopy coupled with in situ electron energy loss spectroscopy. In a Co/SiO2 system, the amorphous SiO2 migrated onto the Co surface to form a crystallized quartz-SiO2 overlayer, and simultaneously an interlayer of Si was generated in-between. The metastable crystalline SiO2 overlayer subsequently underwent an order-to-disorder transition due to the continuous dissociation of SiO2 and the interfacial alloying of Si with the underlying Co. The SMSI in the Pt–SiO2 system was found to remarkably boost the catalytic hydrogenation. These findings demonstrate the universality of the SMSI in oxide supported catalysts, which is of general importance for designing catalysts and understanding catalytic mechanisms. This work tracked at the atomic scale the interfacial reaction induced strong metal–support interaction between SiO2 and metal catalysts and evolution under reactive conditions by aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscopy.![]()
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- Feng Yang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University Beijing 100871 China .,Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Center for Green Innovation, Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface Science, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Core Research Facilities, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Guangdong 518055 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Center for Green Innovation, Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface Science, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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Dong Z, Liu W, Zhang L, Wang S, Luo L. Structural Evolution of Cu/ZnO Catalysts during Water-Gas Shift Reaction: An In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Study. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:41707-41714. [PMID: 34427430 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c11839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Supported metal catalysts experience significant structural evolution during the activation process and reaction conditions, which is critical to achieve a desired active surface and interface enabling efficient catalytic processes. However, such dynamic structural information and related mechanistic understandings remain largely elusive owing to the limitation of real-time capturing dynamic information under reaction conditions. Here, using in situ environment transmission electron microscopy, we demonstrate the atomic-scale structural evolution of the model Cu/ZnO catalyst under relevant water-gas shift reaction (WGSR) conditions. Under a CO gas environment, Cu nanoparticles decompose into smaller Cu species and redistribute on ZnO supports with either the crystalline Cu2O or amorphous CuOx phase due to a strong CO-Cu interaction. In addition, we visualize various metal-support interactions between Cu and ZnO under reaction conditions, e.g., ZnO clusters precipitating on Cu nanoparticles, which are critical to understand active sites of Cu/ZnO as catalysts for WGSR. These in situ atomic-scale observations highlight the dynamic interplays between Cu and ZnO that can be extended to other supported metal catalysts.
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- Zejian Dong
- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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Qi T, Zhao Y, Chen S, Li W, Guo X, Zhang Y, Song C. Bimetallic metal organic framework-templated synthesis of a Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst with superior methanol selectivity for CO2 hydrogenation. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2021.111870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Pandit L, Boubnov A, Behrendt G, Mockenhaupt B, Chowdhury C, Jelic J, Hansen A, Saraçi E, Ras E, Behrens M, Studt F, Grunwaldt J. Unravelling the Zn‐Cu Interaction during Activation of a Zn‐promoted Cu/MgO Model Methanol Catalyst. ChemCatChem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202100692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Lakshmi Pandit
- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) University of Duisburg-Essen 45141 Essen Germany
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) University of Duisburg-Essen 45141 Essen Germany
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- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute of Applied Materials (IAM) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Avantium Technologies B.V. 1014 BV Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) University of Duisburg-Essen 45141 Essen Germany
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Christian-Albrechts University Kiel 24118 Kiel Germany
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany
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Gao J, Sawant KJ, Miller JT, Zeng Z, Zemlyanov D, Greeley JP. Structural and Chemical Transformations of Zinc Oxide Ultrathin Films on Pd(111) Surfaces. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:35113-35123. [PMID: 34275280 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c07510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Structural and chemical transformations of ultrathin oxide films on transition metals lie at the heart of many complex phenomena in heterogeneous catalysis, such as the strong metal-support interaction (SMSI). However, there is limited atomic-scale understanding of these transformations, especially for irreducible oxides such as ZnO. Here, by combining density functional theory calculations and surface science techniques, including scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy, and low-energy electron diffraction, we investigated the interfacial interaction of well-defined ultrathin ZnOxHy films on Pd(111) under varying gas-phase conditions [ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), 5 × 10-7 mbar of O2, and a D2/O2 mixture] to shed light on the SMSI effect of irreducible oxides. Sequential treatment of submonolayer zinc oxide films in a D2/O2 mixture (1:4) at 550 K evoked reversible structural transformations from a bilayer to a monolayer and further to a Pd-Zn near-surface alloy, demonstrating that zinc oxide, as an irreducible oxide, can spread on metal surfaces and show an SMSI-like behavior in the presence of hydrogen. A mixed canonical-grand canonical phase diagram was developed to bridge the gap between UHV conditions and true SMSI environments, revealing that, in addition to surface alloy formation, certain ZnOxHy films with stoichiometries that do not exist in bulk are stabilized by Pd in the presence of hydrogen. Based on the combined theoretical and experimental observations, we propose that SMSI metal nanoparticle encapsulation for irreducible oxide supports such as ZnO involves both surface (hydroxy)oxide and surface alloy formation, depending on the environmental conditions.
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- Junxian Gao
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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- Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, 1205 W State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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Beck A, Zabilskiy M, Newton MA, Safonova O, Willinger MG, van Bokhoven JA. Following the structure of copper-zinc-alumina across the pressure gap in carbon dioxide hydrogenation. Nat Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1038/s41929-021-00625-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Romero M, Mombrú D, Pignanelli F, Faccio R, Mombrú ÁW. From Chain- to Graphene-like Hydroxyl-terminated (ZnO) n Clusters with n≤6 Obtained via Zinc Dimethoxide Hydrolysis and Condensation: Ab initio Structural, Electronic, Vibrational and Optical Properties Calculations. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:849-863. [PMID: 33646619 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent reports are focusing on the structural evolution from the atomic-scale and also at the expenses of alkyl zinc alkoxide precursors towards (ZnO)n clusters and nanostructures with different interesting motifs, but still not much is known about their electronic properties. In this manuscript, we present a theoretical study using DFT and TD-DFT methodologies on the hydrolysis and condensation of zinc dimethoxide precursor in its monomeric, dimeric and trimeric forms towards thermodynamically stable hydroxyl-terminated (ZnO)n clusters with novel chain- and graphene-like fashions. For all cases, distinct vibrational and optical spectra features were assigned evidencing a global monotonic decrease in the opto-electronic gap with increasing oligomerization and cyclization stages. In addition, the electron-affinity of all clusters was also observed to be enhanced with increasing oligomerization and cyclization stages and the electronic charge localization in -e charged clusters was observed to be strongly related to the presence of zinc-oxo subunits and other particular structural features. Our calculations also indicate that the stabilization through hydroxyl termination of both chain- and graphene-like ZnO clusters not only could be a promising driving force to obtain larger atomic-scale 1D and 2D nanostructures but also envisage interesting properties, particularly as electronic acceptor materials for energy applications.
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- Mariano Romero
- Centro NanoMat & Área Física, Departamento de Experimentación y Teoría de la Estructura de la Materia y sus Aplicaciones (DETEMA), Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Centro NanoMat & Área Física, Departamento de Experimentación y Teoría de la Estructura de la Materia y sus Aplicaciones (DETEMA), Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Centro NanoMat & Área Física, Departamento de Experimentación y Teoría de la Estructura de la Materia y sus Aplicaciones (DETEMA), Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Centro NanoMat & Área Física, Departamento de Experimentación y Teoría de la Estructura de la Materia y sus Aplicaciones (DETEMA), Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Centro NanoMat & Área Física, Departamento de Experimentación y Teoría de la Estructura de la Materia y sus Aplicaciones (DETEMA), Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Docherty SR, Copéret C. Deciphering Metal–Oxide and Metal–Metal Interplay via Surface Organometallic Chemistry: A Case Study with CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:6767-6780. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c02555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Scott R. Docherty
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1-5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1-5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Cui WG, Li YT, Yu L, Zhang H, Hu TL. Zeolite-Encapsulated Ultrasmall Cu/ZnO x Nanoparticles for the Hydrogenation of CO 2 to Methanol. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:18693-18703. [PMID: 33852283 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Selective hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol is a "two birds, one stone" technology to mitigate the greenhouse effect and solve the energy demand-supply deficit. Cu-based catalysts can effectively catalyze this reaction but suffer from low catalytic stability caused by the sintering of Cu species. Here, we report a series of zeolite-fixed catalysts Cu/ZnOx(Y)@Na-ZSM-5 (Y is the mass ratios of Cu/Zn in the catalysts) with core-shell structures to overcome this issue and strengthen the transformation. Fascinatingly, in this work, we first employed bimetallic metal-organic framework, CuZn-HKUST-1, nanoparticles (NPs) as a sacrificial agent to introduce ultrasmall Cu/ZnOx NPs (∼2 nm) into the crystalline particles of the Na-ZSM-5 zeolite via a hydrothermal synthesis method. The catalytic results showed that the optimized zeolite-encapsulated Cu/ZnOx(1.38)@Na-ZSM-5 catalyst exhibited the space time yield of methanol (STYMeOH) of 44.88 gMeOH·gCu-1·h-1, much more efficient than the supported Cu/ZnOx/Na-ZSM-5 catalyst (13.32 gMeOH·gCu-1·h-1) and industrial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst (8.46 gMeOH·gCu-1·h-1) under identical conditions. Multiple studies demonstrated that the confinement in the zeolite formwork affords an intimate surrounding for the active phase to create synergies and avoid the separation of Cu-ZnOx interfaces, which results in an improved performance. More importantly, in the long-term test, the Cu/ZnOx(1.38)@Na-ZSM-5 catalyst exhibited constant STYMeOH with superior durability benefitted from its fixed structure. The current findings demonstrate the importance of confinement effects in designing highly efficient and stable methanol synthesis catalysts.
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- Wen-Gang Cui
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Metal and Molecule-Based Material Chemistry, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Tianjin Key Laboratory for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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Operando high-pressure investigation of size-controlled CuZn catalysts for the methanol synthesis reaction. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1435. [PMID: 33664267 PMCID: PMC7933282 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21604-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Although Cu/ZnO-based catalysts have been long used for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol, open questions still remain regarding the role and the dynamic nature of the active sites formed at the metal-oxide interface. Here, we apply high-pressure operando spectroscopy methods to well-defined Cu and Cu0.7Zn0.3 nanoparticles supported on ZnO/Al2O3, γ-Al2O3 and SiO2 to correlate their structure, composition and catalytic performance. We obtain similar activity and methanol selectivity for Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 and CuZn/SiO2, but the methanol yield decreases with time on stream for the latter sample. Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy data reveal the formation of reduced Zn species coexisting with ZnO on CuZn/SiO2. Near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy shows Zn surface segregation and the formation of a ZnO-rich shell on CuZn/SiO2. In this work we demonstrate the beneficial effect of Zn, even in diluted form, and highlight the influence of the oxide support and the Cu-Zn interface in the reactivity.
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Hu J, Li Y, Zhen Y, Chen M, Wan H. In situ FTIR and ex situ XPS/HS-LEIS study of supported Cu/Al2O3 and Cu/ZnO catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(20)63672-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Do TN, Idrees M, Binh NTT, Phuc HV, Hieu NN, Hoa LT, Amin B, Van H. Type-I band alignment of BX-ZnO (X = As, P) van der Waals heterostructures as high-efficiency water splitting photocatalysts: a first-principles study. RSC Adv 2020; 10:44545-44550. [PMID: 35517160 PMCID: PMC9058505 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra09701b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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In this work, we perform first-principles calculations to examine the electronic, optical and photocatalytic properties of the BX–ZnO (X = As, P) heterostructures. The interlayer distance and binding energy of the most energetically favorable stacking configuration are 3.31 Å and −0.30 eV for the BAs–ZnO heterostructure and 3.30 Å and −0.25 eV for the BP–ZnO heterostructure. All the stacking patterns of the BX–ZnO heterostructures are proved to have thermal stability by performing AIMD simulations. The BAs–ZnO and BP–ZnO heterostructures are semiconductors with direct band gaps of 1.43 eV and 2.35 eV, respectively, and they exhibit type-I band alignment, which make them suitable for light emission applications with the ultra-fast recombination between electrons and holes. Both the BAs–ZnO and BP–ZnO heterostructures can exhibit a wider optical absorption range for visible-light owing to their reduced band gaps compared with the isolated BAs, BP and ZnO monolayers. The band alignment of both the BAs–ZnO and BP–ZnO heterostructures can straddle the water redox potential and they would have better performances owing to the direct band gap and the reduced band gap. All these findings demonstrate that the BX–ZnO heterostructures can be considered as potential photocatalysts for water splitting. In this work, we perform first-principles calculations to examine the electronic, optical and photocatalytic properties of the BX–ZnO (X = As, P) heterostructures.![]()
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- Thi-Nga Do
- Laboratory of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Advanced Institute of Materials Science, Ton Duc Thang University Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam .,Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
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- Department of Physics, Hazara University Mansehra 21300 Pakistan
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- Department of Fundamental Sciences, Quang Binh University Quang Binh Vietnam
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- Division of Theoretical Physics, Dong Thap University Cao Lanh 870000 Vietnam
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- Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam .,Faculty of Natural Sciences, Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam
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- Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam .,Faculty of Natural Sciences, Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam
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- Abbottabad University of Science and Technology Abbottabad 22010 Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, University of Education, The University of Da Nang Da Nang Vietnam
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Yu X, Roth JP, Wang J, Sauter E, Nefedov A, Heißler S, Pacchioni G, Wang Y, Wöll C. Chemical Reactivity of Supported ZnO Clusters: Undercoordinated Zinc and Oxygen Atoms as Active Sites. Chemphyschem 2020; 21:2553-2564. [PMID: 33118300 PMCID: PMC7756222 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Revised: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The growth of ZnO clusters supported by ZnO-bilayers on Ag(111) and the interaction of these oxide nanostructures with water have been studied by a multi-technique approach combining temperature-dependent infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS), grazing-emission X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations. Our results reveal that the ZnO bilayers exhibiting graphite-like structure are chemically inactive for water dissociation, whereas small ZnO clusters formed on top of these well-defined, yet chemically passive supports show extremely high reactivity - water is dissociated without an apparent activation barrier. Systematic isotopic substitution experiments using H2 16 O/D2 16 O/D2 18 O allow identification of various types of acidic hydroxyl groups. We demonstrate that a reliable characterization of these OH-species is possible via co-adsorption of CO, which leads to a red shift of the OD frequency due to the weak interaction via hydrogen bonding. The theoretical results provide atomic-level insight into the surface structure and chemical activity of the supported ZnO clusters and allow identification of the presence of under-coordinated Zn and O atoms at the edges and corners of the ZnO clusters as the active sites for H2 O dissociation.
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- Xiaojuan Yu
- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei MaterialiUniversità Milano-BicoccaVia R. Cozzi 5520125MilanoItaly
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- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei MaterialiUniversità Milano-BicoccaVia R. Cozzi 5520125MilanoItaly
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- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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- Institute of Functional InterfacesKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEggenstein-Leopoldshafen76344Germany
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Yu J, Yang M, Zhang J, Ge Q, Zimina A, Pruessmann T, Zheng L, Grunwaldt JD, Sun J. Stabilizing Cu+ in Cu/SiO2 Catalysts with a Shattuckite-Like Structure Boosts CO2 Hydrogenation into Methanol. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jiafeng Yu
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Engesserstraße 20, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Engesserstraße 20, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Engesserstraße 20, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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Li T, Wang M, Liu X, Jin M, Huang F. Hydrogen Impurities in ZnO: Shallow Donors in ZnO Semiconductors and Active Sites for Hydrogenation of Carbon Species. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:2402-2407. [PMID: 32130015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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ZnO, as a low-cost yet significant semiconductor, has been widely used in solar energy conversion and optoelectronic devices. In addition, Cu/ZnO-based catalysts can convert syngas (H2, CO, and CO2) into methanol. However, the main concern about the intrinsic connection between the physical and chemical properties and the structure of ZnO still remains. In this work, efforts are made to decipher the physical and chemical information encoded into the structure. Through using NMR-IR techniques, we, for the first time, report a new ZnO model with three H+ cations incorporated into one Zn vacancy. 1H magic-angle spinning NMR and IR spectra demonstrate that Ga3+ cations are introduced into the Zn vacancies of the ZnO lattice, which replace the H+ cation, and thus further confirm the feasibility of our proposed model. The exchange between the H+ cation in Zn vacancies and the D2 gas phase shows that ZnO can activate H2 because of the quantized three H+ cations in the defect site.
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- Titao Li
- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
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Sun Y, Huang C, Chen L, Zhang Y, Fu M, Wu J, Ye D. Active site structure study of Cu/Plate ZnO model catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol under the real reaction conditions. J CO2 UTIL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2019.11.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Weng Z, Zhang C, Huang Z. Effect of oxygen vacancy on Cu(111)/ZnO interface. Mol Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1619856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Zhenzhen Weng
- College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Manipulation and New Energy Materials, College of Physics and Energy, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
- Fujian Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Semiconductors and Efficient Devices, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China
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High-performance Pd/brass-fiber catalyst for selective hydrogenation of acetylene: Effect of calcination-assisted endogenous growth of ZnO-CuOx on brass-fiber. J Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2019.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Rahimi K. Tunable electronic properties of the novel g-ZnO/1T-TiS 2 vdW heterostructure by electric field and strain: crossovers in bandgap and band alignment types. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:7412-7420. [PMID: 32215418 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00524j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A relatively new and promising method to tune properties of monolayers is by forming a heterostructure of them. Here, the van der Waals heterostructure of graphene-like zinc oxide (g-ZnO) and 1-trigonal titanium disulfide (1T-TiS2) was formed and its structural, electronic, and optical properties were studied in the framework of density functional theory. The dynamical stability of the heterostructure was confirmed based on its phonon band structure. An indirect (Γ → M) bandgap of 0.65 eV, a large built-in electric field (or a large potential drop of 3.12 eV), a type-II (staggered) band alignment, and a large conduction band offset of 2.94 eV were found to form across the interface, which are all desirable for potentially efficient separation of charge carriers. We showed also that the formation of the heterostructure largely enhances the almost-zero optical absorption of g-ZnO in visible and near-infrared regions, which is desirable for optoelectronic applications. By applying a perpendicular electric field, we could tune the bandgap value and the band alignment type (type-II → type-I) of the heterostructure. Finally, we showed that by applying compressive strain, one can change the band alignment type (type-II → type-I) and by applying tensile strain, the bandgap value could be tuned and a crossover occurs in the bandgap type (indirect → direct → indirect).
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- Kourosh Rahimi
- Condensed Matter Group, Department of Basic Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Jalal-Ale-Ahmad Avenue, Tehran, Iran.
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Vo DD, Vu TV, Nguyen THT, Hieu NN, Phuc HV, Binh NTT, Idrees M, Amin B, Nguyen CV. Effects of electric field and strain engineering on the electronic properties, band alignment and enhanced optical properties of ZnO/Janus ZrSSe heterostructures. RSC Adv 2020; 10:9824-9832. [PMID: 35498594 PMCID: PMC9050402 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra00917b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The formation of van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) have recently emerged as promising structures to make a variety of novel nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices. Here, in this work, we investigate the structural, electronic and optical features of ZnO/ZrSSe vdWHs for different stacking patterns of ZnO/SeZrS and ZnO/SZrSe by employing first-principles calculations. Binding energy and ab initio molecular dynamics calculations are also employed to confirm the structural and thermal stability of the ZnO/ZrSSe vdWHs for both models. We find that in both stacking models, the ZnO and ZrSSe layers are bonded via weak vdW forces, leading to easy exfoliation of the layers. More interestingly, both the ZnO/SeZrS and ZnO/SZrSe vdWHs posses type-II band alignment, making them promising candidates for the use of photovoltaic devices because the photogenerated electrons–holes are separated at the interface. The ZnO/ZrSSe vdWHs for both models possess high performance absorption in the visible and near-infrared regions, revealing their use for acquiring efficient photocatalysts. Moreover, the band gap values and band alignments of the ZnO/ZrSSe for both models can be adjusted by an electric field as well as vertical strains. There is a transformation from semiconductor to metal under a negative electric field and tensile vertical strain. These findings demonstrate that ZnO/ZrSSe vdWHs are a promising option for optoelectronic and nanoelectronic applications. Here, in this work, we investigate the structural, electronic and optical features of ZnO/ZrSSe vdWHs for different stacking patterns of ZnO/SeZrS and ZnO/SZrSe by employing first-principles calculations.![]()
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- Dat D. Vo
- Division of Computational Physics
- Institute for Computational Science
- Ton Duc Thang University
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam
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- Division of Computational Physics
- Institute for Computational Science
- Ton Duc Thang University
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam
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- Center of Excellence for Green Energy and Environmental Nanomaterials
- Nguyen Tat Thanh University
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam
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- Institute of Research and Development
- Duy Tan University
- Da Nang 550000
- Vietnam
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- Division of Theoretical Physics
- Dong Thap University
- Cao Lanh 870000
- Vietnam
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- Institute of Research and Development
- Duy Tan University
- Da Nang 550000
- Vietnam
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- Department of Physics
- Hazara University
- Mansehra 21300
- Pakistan
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- Department of Physics
- Abbottabad University of Science and Technology
- Abbottabad 22010
- Pakistan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Le Quy Don Technical University
- Ha Noi 100000
- Vietnam
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Zhong J, Yang X, Wu Z, Liang B, Huang Y, Zhang T. State of the art and perspectives in heterogeneous catalysis of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:1385-1413. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00614a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 333] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The ever-increasing amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has resulted in great environmental impacts, the heterogeneous catalysis of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol is of great significance.
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- Jiawei Zhong
- CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Applied Catalysis
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Applied Catalysis
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Applied Catalysis
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Applied Catalysis
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Applied Catalysis
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Applied Catalysis
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dalian 116023
- China
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Gao W, Liang S, Wang R, Jiang Q, Zhang Y, Zheng Q, Xie B, Toe CY, Zhu X, Wang J, Huang L, Gao Y, Wang Z, Jo C, Wang Q, Wang L, Liu Y, Louis B, Scott J, Roger AC, Amal R, He H, Park SE. Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: state of the art and future challenges. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:8584-8686. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00025f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This review covers the sustainable development of advanced improvements in CO2 capture and utilization.
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Wöll C. Structure and Chemical Properties of Oxide Nanoparticles Determined by Surface-Ligand IR Spectroscopy. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Christof Wöll
- Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Belviso F, Claerbout VEP, Comas-Vives A, Dalal NS, Fan FR, Filippetti A, Fiorentini V, Foppa L, Franchini C, Geisler B, Ghiringhelli LM, Groß A, Hu S, Íñiguez J, Kauwe SK, Musfeldt JL, Nicolini P, Pentcheva R, Polcar T, Ren W, Ricci F, Ricci F, Sen HS, Skelton JM, Sparks TD, Stroppa A, Urru A, Vandichel M, Vavassori P, Wu H, Yang K, Zhao HJ, Puggioni D, Cortese R, Cammarata A. Viewpoint: Atomic-Scale Design Protocols toward Energy, Electronic, Catalysis, and Sensing Applications. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:14939-14980. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Florian Belviso
- Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
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- National High Magnet Field Lab, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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- Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics at University of Cagliari, and CNR-IOM, UOS Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, I-09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Department of Physics at University of Cagliari, and CNR-IOM, UOS Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, I-09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Physics and Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40127, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE), Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstr. 1, Duisburg 47057, Germany
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- Electrochemical Energy Storage, Helmholtz Institut Ulm, Ulm 89069, Germany
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Ulm University, Ulm 89069, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Materials Genome Institute, and International Center of Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux 5, L-4362 Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg
- Physics and Materials Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, Rue du Brill 41, Belvaux L-4422, Luxembourg
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- Materials Science & Engineering Department, University of Utah, 122 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE), Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstr. 1, Duisburg 47057, Germany
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- Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, Materials Genome Institute, and International Center of Quantum and Molecular Structures, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Physique Theorique des Materiaux, Universite de Liege, Sart-Tilman B-4000, Belgium
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Chemin des Etoiles 8, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium
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- Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Materials Science & Engineering Department, University of Utah, 122 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- CNR-SPIN, Department of Physical Sciences and Chemistry, Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila, Via Vetoio, Coppito (AQ) 67010, Italy
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- Department of Physics at University of Cagliari, and CNR-IOM, UOS Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, I-09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences and Bernal Institute, Limerick University, Limerick, Ireland
- Department of Chemistry and Material Science and Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Espoo 02150, Finland
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- CIC nanoGUNE, San Sebastian E-20018, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao 48013, Spain
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- Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux 5, L-4362 Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg
- Physics Department and Institute for Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701,United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze ed. 17, Palermo 90128, Italy
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- Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Liu H, Zakhtser A, Naitabdi A, Rochet F, Bournel F, Salzemann C, Petit C, Gallet JJ, Jie W. Operando Near-Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of the CO Oxidation Reaction on the Oxide/Metal Model Catalyst ZnO/Pt(111). ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hang Liu
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127, Youyi Road, 710072 Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, 91192 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, 91192 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, 91192 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127, Youyi Road, 710072 Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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Li YF, Lu W, Chen K, Duchesne P, Jelle A, Xia M, Wood TE, Ulmer U, Ozin GA. Cu Atoms on Nanowire Pd/HyWO3–x Bronzes Enhance the Solar Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:14991-14996. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b08030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Young Feng Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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Sharapa DI, Doronkin DE, Studt F, Grunwaldt JD, Behrens S. Moving Frontiers in Transition Metal Catalysis: Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2019; 31:e1807381. [PMID: 30803078 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201807381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Nanosized transition metal particles are important materials in catalysis with a key role not only in academic research but also in many processes with industrial and societal relevance. Although small improvements in catalytic properties can lead to significant economic and environmental impacts, it is only now that knowledge-based design of such materials is emerging, partly because the understanding of catalytic mechanisms on nanoparticle surfaces is increasingly improving. A knowledge-based design requires bottom-up synthesis of well-defined model catalysts, an understanding of the catalytic nanomaterials "at work" (operando), and both a detailed understanding and a prediction by theoretical methods. This article reports on progress in colloidal synthesis of transition metal nanoparticles for preparation of model catalysts to close the materials gap between the discoveries of fundamental surface science and industrial application. The transition metal particles, however, often undergo extensive transformations when applied to the catalytic process and much progress has recently been achieved operando characterization techniques under relevant reaction conditions. They allow better understanding of size/structure-activity correlations in these systems. Moreover, the growth of computing power and the improvement of theoretical methods uncover mechanisms on nanoparticles and have recently predicted highly active particles for CO/CO2 hydrogenation or direct H2 O2 synthesis.
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- Dmitry I Sharapa
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstr. 20, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstr. 20, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstr. 20, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Frei E, Gaur A, Lichtenberg H, Heine C, Friedrich M, Greiner M, Lunkenbein T, Grunwaldt J, Schlögl R. Activating a Cu/ZnO : Al Catalyst – Much More than Reduction: Decomposition, Self‐Doping and Polymorphism. ChemCatChem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Elias Frei
- Department of Inorganic ChemistryFritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Karlsruher Institut für TechnologieITCP and IKFT Engesserstr. 20 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Karlsruher Institut für TechnologieITCP and IKFT Engesserstr. 20 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Department of Inorganic ChemistryFritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Inorganic ChemistryFritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Heterogeneous ReactionsMax-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mühlheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Department of Inorganic ChemistryFritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Karlsruher Institut für TechnologieITCP and IKFT Engesserstr. 20 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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- Department of Inorganic ChemistryFritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
- Department of Heterogeneous ReactionsMax-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mühlheim an der Ruhr Germany
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Hu B, Yin Y, Zhong Z, Wu D, Liu G, Hong X. Cu@ZIF-8 derived inverse ZnO/Cu catalyst with sub-5 nm ZnO for efficient CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Catal Sci Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cy02546k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cu@ZIF-8 derived inverse ZnO/Cu with sub-5 nm ZnO acts as an efficient catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol.
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- Bing Hu
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan 430072
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan 430072
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan 430072
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan 430072
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan 430072
- P. R. China
- Wuhan-Oxford Joint Catalysis Laboratory
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan 430072
- P. R. China
- Wuhan-Oxford Joint Catalysis Laboratory
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Shinagawa T, Takahashi H, Izaki M. Direct growth of ZnO crystals on various Cu substrates by Cu-catalyzed chemical bath deposition. CrystEngComm 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ce00244h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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By the catalytic action of Cu on DMAB, ZnO crystals grow directly on various Cu substrates immersed in an aqueous solution containing zinc nitrate and dimethylamine borane at 80 °C under an ambient atmosphere.
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- Tsutomu Shinagawa
- Electronic Materials Research Division
- Morinomiya Center
- Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (ORIST)
- Osaka 536-8553
- Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering
- Toyohashi University of Technology
- Toyohashi
- Japan
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Chen H, Lin L, Li Y, Wang R, Gong Z, Cui Y, Li Y, Liu Y, Zhao X, Huang W, Fu Q, Yang F, Bao X. CO and H2 Activation over g-ZnO Layers and w-ZnO(0001). ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Hao Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China
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- Vacuum Interconnected Nanotech Workstation, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 398 Ruoshui Road, Suzhou 215123, People’s Republic of China
- Nano Science and Technology Institute, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou 215123, People’s Republic of China
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- Vacuum Interconnected Nanotech Workstation, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 398 Ruoshui Road, Suzhou 215123, People’s Republic of China
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- Vacuum Interconnected Nanotech Workstation, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 398 Ruoshui Road, Suzhou 215123, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, iChEM, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, People’s Republic of China
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