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Yan H, Xiang H, Liu J, Cheng R, Ye Y, Han Y, Yao C. The Factors Dictating Properties of Atomically Precise Metal Nanocluster Electrocatalysts. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2200812. [PMID: 35403353 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202200812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Metal nanoparticles occupy an important position in electrocatalysis. Unfortunately, by using conventional synthetic methodology, it is a great challenge to realize the monodisperse composition/structure of metal nanoparticles at the atomic level, and to establish correlations between the catalytic properties and the structure of individual catalyst particles. For the study of well-defined nanocatalysts, great advances have been made for the successful synthesis of nanoparticles with atomic precision, notably ligand-passivated metal nanoclusters. Such well-defined metal nanoclusters have become a type of model catalyst and have shown great potential in catalysis research. In this review, the authors summarize the advances in the utilization of atomically precise metal nanoclusters for electrocatalysis. In particular, the factors (e.g., size, metal doping/alloying, ligand engineering, support materials as well as charge state of clusters) affecting selectivity and activity of catalysts are highlighted. The authors aim to provide insightful guidelines for the rational design of electrocatalysts with high performance and perspectives on potential challenges and opportunities in this emerging field.
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- Hao Yan
- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
- Ningbo Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 218 Qingyi Road, Ningbo, 315103, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
- Ningbo Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 218 Qingyi Road, Ningbo, 315103, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072, China
- Ningbo Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 218 Qingyi Road, Ningbo, 315103, China
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Rötzer MD, Krause M, Crampton AS, Heiz U, Yoon B, Landman U. Nanotuning via Local Work Function Control: Ethylene Hydrogenation on Supported Pt Nanoclusters. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b03890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Marian D. Rötzer
- Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie, Catalysis Research Center & Chemistry Department, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie, Catalysis Research Center & Chemistry Department, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie, Catalysis Research Center & Chemistry Department, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie, Catalysis Research Center & Chemistry Department, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, United States
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, United States
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Iwasa T, Sato T, Takagi M, Gao M, Lyalin A, Kobayashi M, Shimizu KI, Maeda S, Taketsugu T. Combined Automated Reaction Pathway Searches and Sparse Modeling Analysis for Catalytic Properties of Lowest Energy Twins of Cu 13. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:210-217. [PMID: 30540470 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b08868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
In nanocatalysis, growing attention has recently been given to investigation of energetically low-lying structural isomers of atomic clusters, because some isomers can demonstrate better catalytic activity than the most stable structures. In this study, we present a comparative investigation of catalytic activity for NO dissociation of a pair of the energetically degenerated isomers of Cu13 cluster having C2 and C s symmetries. It is shown that although these isomers have similar structural, electronic, and optical properties, they can possess very different catalytic activities. The effect of isomerization between cluster isomers is considered using state-of-the-art automated reaction pathway search techniques such as an artificial force induced reaction (AFIR) method as a part of a global reaction route mapping (GRRM) strategy. This method allows effectively to locate a large number of possible reaction pathways and transition states (TSs). In total, 12 TSs for NO dissociation were obtained for Cu13, of C2, C s, as well as I h isomers. Sparse modeling analysis shows that LUMO is strongly negatively correlated with total energy of TSs. For most TSs, LUMO has the antibonding character of NO, consisting of the interaction between π* of NO and SOMO of Cu13. Therefore, an increase in the strength of interaction between NO molecule and Cu13 cluster causes the rise in energy of the LUMO, resulting in lowering of the TS energy for NO dissociation. The combination of the automated reaction pathway search technique and sparse modeling represents a powerful tool for analysis and prediction of the physicochemical properties of atomic clusters, especially in the regime of structural fluxionality, where traditional methods based on random geometry search analyses are difficult.
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- Takeshi Iwasa
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,ESICB , Kyoto University , Kyoto 615-8245 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,ESICB , Kyoto University , Kyoto 615-8245 , Japan.,Institute for Catalysis , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 001-0021 , Japan
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- GREEN , National Institute for Materials Science , Tsukuba 305-0044 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,ESICB , Kyoto University , Kyoto 615-8245 , Japan.,PRESTO , Japan Science and Technology Agency , Kawaguchi 332-0012 , Japan
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- ESICB , Kyoto University , Kyoto 615-8245 , Japan.,Institute for Catalysis , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 001-0021 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,ESICB , Kyoto University , Kyoto 615-8245 , Japan.,Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 001-0021 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 060-0810 , Japan.,ESICB , Kyoto University , Kyoto 615-8245 , Japan.,GREEN , National Institute for Materials Science , Tsukuba 305-0044 , Japan.,Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) , Hokkaido University , Sapporo 001-0021 , Japan
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Mafuné F, Tawaraya Y, Kudoh S. Reactivity Control of Rhodium Cluster Ions by Alloying with Tantalum Atoms. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:861-7. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b11898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fumitaka Mafuné
- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Mafuné F, Takenouchi M, Miyajima K, Kudoh S. Rhodium Oxide Cluster Ions Studied by Thermal Desorption Spectrometry. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:356-63. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b09531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fumitaka Mafuné
- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Mammen N, de Gironcoli S, Narasimhan S. Substrate doping: A strategy for enhancing reactivity on gold nanocatalysts by tuning sp bands. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:144307. [PMID: 26472379 DOI: 10.1063/1.4932944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We suggest that the reactivity of Au nanocatalysts can be greatly increased by doping the oxide substrate on which they are placed with an electron donor. To demonstrate this, we perform density functional theory calculations on a model system consisting of a 20-atom gold cluster placed on a MgO substrate doped with Al atoms. We show that not only does such substrate doping switch the morphology of the nanoparticles from the three-dimensional tetrahedral form to the two-dimensional planar form, but it also significantly lowers the barrier for oxygen dissociation by an amount proportional to the dopant concentration. At a doping level of 2.78%, the dissociation barrier is reduced by more than half, which corresponds to a speeding up of the oxygen dissociation rate by five orders of magnitude at room temperature. This arises from a lowering in energy of the s and p states of Au. The d states are also lowered in energy, however, this by itself would have tended to reduce reactivity. We propose that a suitable measure of the reactivity of Au nanoparticles is the difference in energy of sp and d states.
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- Nisha Mammen
- Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore 560064, India
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- Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore 560064, India
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Palladium oxide cluster ions, PdnOm(+), were prepared in the gas phase using laser ablation of a palladium rod in the presence of oxygen. The cluster ions were heated to 1000 K downstream from the cluster source (post heating), and the abundance of PdnOm(+) (n = 2-7) was examined using mass spectrometry. Temperature-programmed desorption experiments revealed that an oxygen molecule is released from oxygen-rich PdnOm(+), forming oxygen-deficient PdnOm-2(+). It was found that Pd6O4(+) was thermally stable up to 1000 K. The activation energy for oxygen molecule desorption has been obtained and compared with previous results by Lang et al.
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- Ken Miyajima
- Department of Basic Science, School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science, School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Koyama K, Kudoh S, Miyajima K, Mafuné F. Stable Stoichiometry of Gas-Phase Manganese Oxide Cluster Ions Revealed by Temperature-Programmed Desorption. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:8433-42. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b02139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Kohei Koyama
- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Tawaraya Y, Kudoh S, Miyajima K, Mafuné F. Thermal Desorption and Reaction of NO Adsorbed on Rhodium Cluster Ions Studied by Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:8461-8. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b04224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yuki Tawaraya
- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Takenouchi M, Kudoh S, Miyajima K, Mafuné F. Adsorption and Desorption of Hydrogen by Gas-Phase Palladium Clusters Revealed by In Situ Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:6766-72. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b03926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Masato Takenouchi
- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Basic Science,
School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Kaydashev VE, Janssens E, Lievens P. Optical absorption spectra of palladium doped gold cluster cations. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:034310. [PMID: 25612712 DOI: 10.1063/1.4906072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Photoabsorption spectra of gas phase Au(n)(+) and Au(n-1)Pd(+) (13 ≤ n ≤ 20) clusters were measured using mass spectrometric recording of wavelength dependent Xe messenger atom photodetachment in the 1.9-3.4 eV photon energy range. Pure cationic gold clusters consisting of 15, 17, and 20 atoms have a higher integrated optical absorption cross section than the neighboring sizes. It is shown that the total optical absorption cross section increases with size and that palladium doping strongly reduces this cross section for all investigated sizes and in particular for n = 14-17 and 20. The largest reduction of optical absorption upon Pd doping is observed for n = 15.
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- Vladimir E Kaydashev
- Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Magnetism, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200d - Box 2414, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Magnetism, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200d - Box 2414, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Magnetism, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200d - Box 2414, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Lang SM, Fleischer I, Bernhardt TM, Barnett RN, Landman U. Low-Temperature CO Oxidation Catalyzed by Free Palladium Clusters: Similarities and Differences to Pd Surfaces and Supported Particles. ACS Catal 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/cs5016222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Sandra M. Lang
- Institute
of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee
47, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute
of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee
47, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute
of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee
47, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- School
of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, United States
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- School
of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, United States
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Water–gas shift kinetics over lanthanum-promoted iron catalyst in Fischer–Tropsch synthesis: thermodynamic analysis of nanoparticle size effect. JOURNAL OF THE IRANIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s13738-014-0435-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Li F, Hinton CS, Citir M, Liu F, Armentrout PB. Guided ion beam and theoretical study of the reactions of Au+ with H2, D2, and HD. J Chem Phys 2011; 134:024310. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3514899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Liu Y, Tsunoyama H, Akita T, Xie S, Tsukuda T. Aerobic Oxidation of Cyclohexane Catalyzed by Size-Controlled Au Clusters on Hydroxyapatite: Size Effect in the Sub-2 nm Regime. ACS Catal 2010. [DOI: 10.1021/cs100043j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 346] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yongmei Liu
- Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Nishi10, Kita21, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Nishi10, Kita21, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Research Institute for Ubiquitous Energy Devices, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka 563-8577, Japan
- CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Nishi10, Kita21, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Nishi10, Kita21, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
- CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Li H, Pei Y, Zeng XC. Two-dimensional to three-dimensional structural transition of gold cluster Au10 during soft landing on TiO2 surface and its effect on CO oxidation. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:134707. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3485291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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