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Huang E, Liu P. Theoretical Perspective of Promoting Direct Methane-to-Methanol Conversion at Complex Metal Oxide-Metal Interfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:6556-6563. [PMID: 37458591 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
Abstract
Direct methane conversion to methanol has been considered as an effective and economic way to address greenhouse effects and the current high demand for methanol in industry. However, the process has long been challenging due to lack of viable catalysts to compromise the activation of methane that typically occurs at high temperatures and retaining of produced methanol that requires mild conditions. This Perspective demonstrates an effective strategy to promote direct methane to methanol conversion by engineering the active sites and chemical environments at complex metal oxide - copper oxide - copper interfaces. Such effort strongly depends on extensive theoretical studies by combining density functional theory (DFT) calculations and kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations to provide in-depth understanding of reaction mechanism and active sites, which build a strong basis to enable the identification of design principles and advance the catalyst optimization for selective CH4-to-CH3OH conversion.
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Affiliation(s)
- Erwei Huang
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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Huang E, Rui N, Rosales R, Kang J, Nemšák S, Senanayake SD, Rodriguez JA, Liu P. Highly Selective Methane to Methanol Conversion on Inverse SnO 2/Cu 2O/Cu(111) Catalysts: Unique Properties of SnO 2 Nanostructures and the Inhibition of the Direct Oxidative Combustion of Methane. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c03060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Erwei Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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Rodriguez JA, Rui N, Zhang F, Senanayake SD. In Situ Studies of Methane Activation Using Synchrotron-Based Techniques: Guiding the Conversion of C–H Bonds. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c00941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- José A. Rodriguez
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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Rui N, Shi R, Gutiérrez RA, Rosales R, Kang J, Mahapatra M, Ramírez PJ, Senanayake SD, Rodriguez JA. CO 2 Hydrogenation on ZrO 2/Cu(111) Surfaces: Production of Methane and Methanol. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c03229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ning Rui
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela
- Zoneca-CENEX, R&D Laboratories, Alta Vista, 64770 Monterrey Mexico
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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Park G, Giri A, Kumar M, Moon S, Pal M, Kim DW, Jeong U. Pseudoequilibrium between Etching and Selective Grain Growth: Chemical Conversion of a Randomly Oriented Au Film into a (111)-Oriented Ultrathin Au Film. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:9772-9779. [PMID: 34766778 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Metal thin films with a specific orientation play vital roles in electronics, catalysts, and epitaxial templates. Although oriented metal films have been produced in the recent years, ultrathin oriented metal films (<10 nm) have not been achieved owing to the interfacial instability of the ultrathin films during the thermal annealing process. This study investigates chemical conversion of randomly oriented multigrain Au ultrathin films into (111)-oriented Au ultrathin films. A novel chemical process, termed pseudoequilibrium of etching and selective grain growth, is presented for the chemical conversion by using a quaternary ammonium halide. The reaction variables (reaction time, reaction temperature, species of halide ions) for the chemical conversion process are systematically investigated. This study reveals the in-plane rotational degeneracy in the Au(111) thin film epitaxially grown on a Si(111) substrate. The chemical process can be applied to a broad range of thicknesses from 9 to 100 nm.
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- Gyeongbae Park
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 790-784, Korea
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