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Lee SW, Subramanian A, Zamudio FB, Zhong JQ, Kozlov SM, Shaikhutdinov S, Roldan Cuenya B. Interaction of Gallium with a Copper Surface: Surface Alloying and Formation of Ordered Structures. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2023; 127:20700-20709. [PMID: 37908742 PMCID: PMC10614298 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c05711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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Alloys of gallium with transition metals have recently received considerable attention for their applications in microelectronics and catalysis. Here, we investigated the initial stages of the Ga-Cu alloy formation on Cu(111) and Cu(001) surfaces using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and low energy electron diffraction (LEED). The results show that Ga atoms deposited using physical vapor deposition readily intermix with the Cu surface, leading to a random distribution of the Ga and Cu atoms within the surface layer, on both terraces and monolayer-thick islands formed thereon. However, as the Ga coverage increases, several ordered structures are formed. The (√3×√3)R30° structure is found to be thermodynamically most stable on Cu(111). This structure remains after vacuum annealing at 600 K, independent of the initial Ga coverage (varied between 0.5 and 3 monolayers), indicating a self-limited growth of the Ga-Cu alloy layer, with the rest of the Ga atoms migrating into the Cu crystal. For Ga deposited on Cu(001), we observed a (1 × 5)-reconstructed surface, which has never been observed for surface alloys on Cu(001). The experimental findings were rationalized on the basis of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which provided structural models for the most stable surface Ga-Cu alloys on Cu(111) and Cu(001). The study sheds light on the complex interaction of Ga with transition metal surfaces and the interfaces formed thereon that will aid in a better understanding of surface alloying and chemical reactions on the Ga-based alloys.
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- Si Woo Lee
- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Plank Society, Faradayweg 4-6, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117585, Singapore
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117585, Singapore
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Plank Society, Faradayweg 4-6, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117585, Singapore
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Plank Society, Faradayweg 4-6, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department
of Interface Science, Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Plank Society, Faradayweg 4-6, Berlin 14195, Germany
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Song Y, Weng S, Xue F, McCue AJ, Zheng L, He Y, Feng J, Liu Y, Li D. Understanding the Role of Coordinatively Unsaturated Al 3+ Sites on Nanoshaped Al 2O 3 for Creating Uniform Ni–Cu Alloys for Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene. ACS Catal 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c06091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Yuanfei Song
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K
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- High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Ge X, Cao Y, Yan K, Li Y, Zhou L, Dai S, Zhang J, Gong X, Qian G, Zhou X, Yuan W, Duan X. Increasing the Distance of Adjacent Palladium Atoms for Configuration Matching in Selective Hydrogenation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202215225. [PMID: 36269685 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202215225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Precisely tailoring the distance between adjacent metal sites to match adsorption configurations of key species for the targeted reaction pathway is a great challenge in heterogeneous catalysis. Here, we report a proof-of-concept study on the atomically sites-tailored pathway in Pd-catalyzed acetylene hydrogenation, i.e., increasing the distance of adjacent Pd atoms (dPd-a-Pd ) for configuration matching in acetylene semi-hydrogenation against coupling. dPd-a-Pd is identified as a structural descriptor for describing the competitiveness for reaction pathways, and the increased dPd-a-Pd prefers the semi-hydrogenation pathway due to simultaneously promoted C2 H4 desorption and the destabilized transition state of the C2 H3 * coupling. Spectroscopic, kinetics and electronic structure studies reveal that increasing dPd-a-Pd to 3.31 Å delivers superior selectivity and stability due to energy matching and appropriate hybridization of Pd 4d with In 2s and, especially, 2p orbitals.
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- Xiaohu Ge
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Centre for Computational Chemistry and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China
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Ge X, Dou M, Cao Y, Liu X, Yuwen Q, Zhang J, Qian G, Gong X, Zhou X, Chen L, Yuan W, Duan X. Mechanism driven design of trimer Ni 1Sb 2 site delivering superior hydrogenation selectivity to ethylene. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5534. [PMID: 36131070 PMCID: PMC9492709 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33250-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Mechanism driven catalyst design with atomically uniform ensemble sites is an important yet challenging issue in heterogeneous catalysis associated with breaking the activity-selectivity trade-off. Herein, a trimer Ni1Sb2 site in NiSb intermetallic featuring superior selectivity is elaborated for acetylene semi-hydrogenation via a theoretical guidance with a precise synthesis strategy. The trimer Ni1Sb2 site in NiSb intermetallic is predicted to endow acetylene reactant with an adequately but not excessively strong σ-adsorption mode while ethylene product with a weak π-adsorption one, where such compromise delivers higher ethylene formation rate. An in-situ trapping of molten Sb by Ni strategy is developed to realize the construction of Ni1Sb2 site in the intermetallic P63/mmc NiSb catalysts. Such catalyst exhibits ethylene selectivity up to 93.2% at 100% of acetylene conversion, significantly prevailing over the referred Ni catalyst. These insights shed new lights on rational catalyst design by taming active sites to energetically match targeted reaction pathway. Designing atomically uniform ensemble sites for matching targeted reaction pathway is important yet challenging in heterogeneous catalysis. Here, the authors fabricate a trimer Ni1Sb2 site featuring superior selectivity for acetylene semi-hydrogenation via a mechanism-driven design strategy.
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- Xiaohu Ge
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, In-situ Center for Physical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Centre for Computational Chemistry and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, In-situ Center for Physical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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Zhu Y, Jian C, Xue R, Zhang W, Guo R, Gao Y, Chen DL, Zhang F, Zhu W, Wang FF. Theoretical understanding on all-solid frustrated Lewis pair sites of C 2N anchored by single metal atom. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:054704. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0100170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Designing all-solid heterogeneous catalysts with frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) has aroused great attentions recently because of its appealing low dissociation energy for H2 molecule and thus a promotion of hydrogenation reaction is expected. The sterically encumbered Lewis acid (metal site) and base (nitrogen site) in the cavity of single transition metal atom doped M/C2N sheet makes it potential candidate with FLP, while a comprehensive understanding of its intrinsic property and reactivity is still required. Calculations show that the complete dissociation of H2 molecule into two H* at the N sites requires two steps, i.e., heterolytic cleavage of H2 molecule and the transfer of H* from metal site to N site, which are highly related to the acidity of the metal site. The Ni/C2N and Pd/C2N, which outperform over the other 8 transition metal atom (M) anchored M/C2N candidates, possess low energy barriers for the complete dissociation of H2 molecule, with values of only 0.30 and 0.20 eV, respectively. Furthermore, both Ni/C2N and Pd/C2N catalysts can achieve semi-hydrogenation of C2H2 into C2H4, with overall barriers of 0.81 and 0.75 eV, respectively, lower than many reported catalysts. It is speculated that M/C2N catalysts with intrinsic FLPs may also find applications in other important hydrogenation reaction.
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- Zhejiang Normal University, China
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Fu B, McCue AJ, Liu Y, Weng S, Song Y, He Y, Feng J, Li D. Highly Selective and Stable Isolated Non-Noble Metal Atom Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Baoai Fu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Box 98, 15 Bei San Huan East Road, Beijing 100029, China
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Yin P, Jie Y, Zhao XJ, Feng YL, Sun T, Rao DM, Pu M, Yan H. Effect of point defects on acetylene hydrogenation reaction over Ni(111) surface: a density functional theory study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:27340-27347. [PMID: 34854437 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03599a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are carried out to investigate the effect of point defects on acetylene hydrogenation reaction over Ni(111) surface with three different defect concentrations (DC = 0.0500, 0.0625, and 0.0833), compared with the perfect Ni(111) surface. The adsorptions of C2 species and H atoms and the mechanism of acetylene hydrogenation via the ethylene pathway are systematically analyzed. The results indicate that the existence of defects will make C2 species and H atoms more inclined to adsorb near the defects. Introducing an appropriate amount of point defect concentration can enhance the catalytic activity and ethylene selectivity of Ni. In this work, DC = 0.0625 Ni(111) surface has the highest catalytic activity and selectivity of ethylene. This work provides useful theoretical information on the effect of defects on acetylene hydrogenation and is helpful for the design of Ni and related metal catalysts with defects.
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- Pan Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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Liu Y, Ye W, Lin H, Song C, Rong Z, Lu R, Zhang H, Huang H, Tang Z, Zhang S. Embedding
Pd‐Cu
Alloy Nanoparticles in Shell of
Surface‐Porous N‐Doped
Carbon Nanosphere for Selective Hydrogenation of
p
‐Chloronitrobenzene
. CHINESE J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.202100261] [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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- Yingcen Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology Dalian Liaoning 116024 China
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He H, Meyer RJ, Rioux RM, Janik MJ. Catalyst Design for Selective Hydrogenation of Benzene to Cyclohexene through Density Functional Theory and Microkinetic Modeling. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Haoran He
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, New Jersey 08801, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Jian M, Liu JX, Li WX. Hydroxyl improving the activity, selectivity and stability of supported Ni single atoms for selective semi-hydrogenation. Chem Sci 2021; 12:10290-10298. [PMID: 34377416 PMCID: PMC8336451 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03087f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Atomically dispersed metal catalysts with high atomic utilization and selectivity have been widely studied for acetylene semi-hydrogenation in excess ethylene among others. Further improvements of activity and selectivity, in addition to stability and loading, remain elusive due to competitive adsorption and desorption between reactants and products, hydrogen activation, partial hydrogenation etc. on limited site available. Herein, comprehensive density functional theory calculations have been used to explore the new strategy by introducing an appropriate ligand to stabilize the active single atom, improving the activity and selectivity on oxide supports. We find that the hydroxyl group can stabilize Ni single atoms significantly by forming Ni1(OH)2 complexes on anatase TiO2(101), whose unique electronic and geometric properties enable high performance in acetylene semi-hydrogenation. Specifically, Ni1(OH)2/TiO2(101) shows favorable acetylene adsorption and promotes the heterolytic dissociation of H2 achieving high catalytic activity, and it simultaneously weakens the ethylene bonding to facilitate subsequent desorption showing high ethylene selectivity. Hydroxyl stabilization of single metal atoms on oxide supports and promotion of the catalytic activity are sensitive to transition metal and the oxide supports. Compared to Co, Rh, Ir, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag and Au, and anatase ZrO2, IrO2 and NbO2 surfaces, the optimum interactions between Ni, O and Ti and resulted high activity, selectivity and stability make Ni1(OH)2/TiO2(101) a promising catalyst in acetylene hydrogenation. Our work provides valuable guidelines for utilization of ligands in the rational design of stable and efficient atomically dispersed catalysts.
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- Minzhen Jian
- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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- Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Hefei Anhui 230026 China
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Zheng W, Ma L, Wang B, Wang J, Zhang R. C2H2 selective hydrogenation over the CuxMy or PdxNy intermetallic compounds: The influences of partner metal type and ratio on the catalytic performance. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2021.111660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Zhang J, Yang J, Cheng L, Wang Y, Feng G. Adsorption of acetylene on Sn-doped Ni(111) surfaces: a density functional study. J Mol Model 2020; 26:310. [PMID: 33084983 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-04568-1] [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: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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First-principle density functional theory calculations have been performed to investigate the adsorption of C2H2 on Ni(111) and Sn@Ni(111) at different coverages. At low coverage, the C2H2 molecule is strongly adsorbed on Ni(111) and the dissociation of the H atom is not favorable. Furthermore, the more the H atom dissociated, the more unstable the system is. However, the dissociation structure of C2H+H has the largest adsorption energy on Sn@Ni(111), indicating that the dissociation structure is more stable than molecular adsorbed C2H2. At moderate coverage, there is some repulsive interaction between two C2H2 molecules, inducing the decrease in adsorption energy. On Ni(111), the two C2H2 tend to adsorb separately, however, the dimer C4H4 has the largest adsorption energy on Sn@Ni(111). At high coverage, the trimer derivative benzene has the largest adsorption energy on both Ni(111) and Sn@Ni(111) surfaces. The adsorption energies of the formed benzene are very high on the two systems, even larger than those of three individual adsorbed C2H2.
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- Jing Zhang
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030021, Shanxi, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030021, Shanxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330038, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030021, Shanxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Environment and Energy Catalysis, Institute of Applied Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.
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Chen L, Ye J, Yang Y, Yin P, Feng H, Chen C, Zhang X, Wei M, Truhlar DG. Catalytic Conversion Furfuryl Alcohol to Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol and 2-Methylfuran at Terrace, Step, and Corner Sites on Ni. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Lifang Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Cao Y, Zhang H, Ji S, Sui Z, Jiang Z, Wang D, Zaera F, Zhou X, Duan X, Li Y. Adsorption Site Regulation to Guide Atomic Design of Ni–Ga Catalysts for Acetylene Semi‐Hydrogenation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202004966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Yueqiang Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai 201800 China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
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- Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai 201800 China
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Zhangjiang Lab Shanghai Advanced Research Institute Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai 201210 China
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- Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- Department of Chemistry and UCR Center for Catalysis University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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Cao Y, Zhang H, Ji S, Sui Z, Jiang Z, Wang D, Zaera F, Zhou X, Duan X, Li Y. Adsorption Site Regulation to Guide Atomic Design of Ni–Ga Catalysts for Acetylene Semi‐Hydrogenation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:11647-11652. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Yueqiang Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai 201800 China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
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- Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai 201800 China
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Zhangjiang Lab Shanghai Advanced Research Institute Chinese Academy of Science Shanghai 201210 China
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- Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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- Department of Chemistry and UCR Center for Catalysis University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering School of Chemical Engineering East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene Catalysed by a B12N12 Cluster Doped with a Single Nickel Atom: A DFT Study. Catalysts 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/catal10010115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To obtain a catalyst based on a non-precious metal that can replace traditional palladium-based selective catalysts of acetylene hydrogenation, the catalytic performances of two different configurations of a B12N12 cluster doped with a single nickel atom were studied by a density functional theory computational approach. After analysing the effect that the adsorption of reactants onto the clusters has on the reaction path, we determined the lowest energy path for the acetylene double hydrogenation. Comparing the acetylene hydrogenation activities and ethylene product selectivities of the B11N12Ni and B12N11Ni clusters, which have different doping sites, we determined the activities of these two catalysts to be similar to each other; however, the B11N12Ni cluster was calculated to have higher selectivity for ethylene as a product. This difference may be related to the moderate adsorption of hydrogen and acetylene on the B11N12Ni cluster. As a new type of nickel-based single-atom catalyst, B11N12Ni clusters may have research value in the selective hydrogenation of acetylene.
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Dasgupta A, Zimmerer EK, Meyer RJ, Rioux RM. Generalized approach for the synthesis of silica supported Pd-Zn, Cu-Zn and Ni-Zn gamma brass phase nanoparticles. Catal Today 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2018.10.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Song Y, Laursen S. Control of surface reactivity towards unsaturated C C bonds and H over Ni-based intermetallic compounds in semi-hydrogenation of acetylene. J Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2019.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Rao DM, Sun T, Yang YS, Yin P, Pu M, Yan H, Wei M. Theoretical study on the reaction mechanism and selectivity of acetylene semi-hydrogenation on Ni-Sn intermetallic catalysts. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:1384-1392. [PMID: 30601513 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp06032k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Recently, Ni-Sn intermetallic compounds (IMCs) with unique geometric structures have been proved to be selective catalysts for acetylene hydrogenation to ethylene, but the origin of the selectivity remains unclear. In this work, a density functional theory (DFT) study has been carried out to investigate the mechanism of acetylene hydrogenation on six surfaces of Ni-Sn IMCs, and the geometric effects towards ethylene selectivity were revealed. Two key parameters (adsorption energy and the hydrogenation barrier of ethylene), which determine the ethylene selectivity, were studied quantitatively. The adsorption sites for C2Hy (y = 2, 3, 4) can be classified into three types: Type 1 (Ni3Sn(111) and Ni3Sn2(101)-2) with Ni trimers, Type 2 (Ni3Sn(001) and Ni3Sn2(001)) with Ni monomers, and Type 3 (Ni3Sn2(101) and Ni3Sn2(001)-2) with reconstructed metal trimers. The adsorption energy (Ead) decreases following the order: Type 1 > Type 3 > Type 2, which indicates that the adsorption strength depends significantly on site ensemble: a more isolated Ni site would facilitate the desorption of ethylene. However, the surface roughness mainly dominates the hydrogenation barrier of ethylene. Either low or high roughness decreases the interactions between H and C2H4 (Eint), resulting in an enhanced energy barrier for over-hydrogenation of C2H4 (Ea,hydr); while moderate roughness benefits Eint and lowers Ea,hydr. The selectivity to ethylene is denoted as ΔEa = Ea,hydr - |Ead|, thus depending on the interplay of site ensemble effects and surface roughness. From this point of view, Ni3Sn(001) and Ni3Sn2(101) surfaces with well-isolated Ni ensembles and low (or high) surface roughness exhibit decreased |Ead| and increased Ea,hydr, giving rise to excellent selectivity to ethylene. This work provides significant understanding of the origin of ethylene selectivity in terms of geometric effects, which gives helpful instruction for the design and preparation of intermetallic catalysts for acetylene semi-hydrogenation.
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- De-Ming Rao
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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Hu M, Yang W, Liu S, Zhu W, Li Y, Hu B, Chen Z, Shen R, Cheong WC, Wang Y, Zhou K, Peng Q, Chen C, Li Y. Topological self-template directed synthesis of multi-shelled intermetallic Ni 3Ga hollow microspheres for the selective hydrogenation of alkyne. Chem Sci 2019; 10:614-619. [PMID: 30746103 PMCID: PMC6334720 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc03178a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Multi-shelled hollow structured materials featuring large void volumes and high specific surface areas are very promising for a variety of applications. However, controllable synthesis of multi-shelled hollow structured intermetallic compounds remains a formidable challenge due to the high annealing temperature commonly required for the formation of intermetallic phases. Here, a topological self-template strategy was developed to solve this problem. Using this strategy, we prepared well-defined multi-shelled intermetallic Ni3Ga hollow microspheres (Ni3Ga-MIHMs) as disclosed by the HAADF-STEM, HRTEM, and EDS characterizations, and the BET specific surface areas of them measured as much as 153.4 m2 g-1. XRD and EXAFS spectral characterizations revealed the atomically ordered intermetallic phase nature of the Ni3Ga-MIHMs. The selective hydrogenation of acetylene catalytic evaluation results further demonstrated excellent catalytic properties of the Ni3Ga-MIHMs, which results from the more energetically facile reaction pathway for acetylene hydrogenation and ethylene desorption over it as revealed by DFT calculations. Besides, this strategy is also extendable to synthesize other multi-shelled intermetallic Ni3Sn4 hollow microspheres, and is expected to open up new opportunities for rational design and preparation of novel structured and highly efficient intermetallics.
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- Mingzhen Hu
- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Yulin University , Yulin City 719000 , Shaanxi , P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science , Anhui Normal University , Wuhu 241000 , P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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- Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , P. R. China .
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