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Pfaff S, Larsson A, Orlov D, Rämisch L, Gericke SM, Lundgren E, Zetterberg J. A Polycrystalline Pd Surface Studied by Two-Dimensional Surface Optical Reflectance during CO Oxidation: Bridging the Materials Gap. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:444-453. [PMID: 38109219 PMCID: PMC10788831 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c11341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
Industrial catalysts are complex materials systems operating in harsh environments. The active parts of the catalysts are nanoparticles that expose different facets with different surface orientations at which the catalytic reactions occur. However, these facets are close to impossible to study in detail under industrially relevant operating conditions. Instead, simpler model systems, such as single crystals with a well-defined surface orientation, have been successfully used to study gas-surface interactions such as adsorption and desorption, surface oxidation, and oxidation/reduction reactions. To more closely mimic the many facets exhibited by nanoparticles and thereby close the so-called materials gap, there has also been a recent move toward using polycrystalline surfaces and curved crystals. However, these studies are limited either by the pressure or spatial resolution at realistic pressures or by the number of surfaces studied simultaneously. In this work, we demonstrate the use of reflectance microscopy to study a vast number of catalytically active surfaces simultaneously under realistic and identical reaction conditions. As a proof of concept, we have conducted an operando experiment to study CO oxidation over a Pd polycrystal, where the polycrystalline surface acts as a collection of many single-crystal surfaces. Finally, we visualized the resulting data by plotting the reflectivity as a function of surface orientation. We think the techniques and visualization methods introduced in this work will be key toward bridging the materials gap in catalysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sebastian Pfaff
- Combustion
Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Division
of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund
University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Division
of Mechanics, Materials and Component Design, Lund University, Ole
Römers väg 1, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Division
of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund
University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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Gutiérrez-González A, Beck RD. Quantum state and surface-site-resolved studies of methane chemisorption by vibrational spectroscopies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:17448-17459. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03134h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Infrared spectroscopic methods enable quantum-state-specific and surface-site-selective studies of methane chemisorption on stepped platinum surfaces.
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- Ana Gutiérrez-González
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire (LCPM)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire (LCPM)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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van Lent R, Auras SV, Cao K, Walsh AJ, Gleeson MA, Juurlink LBF. Site-specific reactivity of molecules with surface defects—the case of H2 dissociation on Pt. Science 2019; 363:155-157. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aau6716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The classic system that describes weakly activated dissociation in heterogeneous catalysis has been explained by two dynamical models that are fundamentally at odds. Whereas one model for hydrogen dissociation on platinum(111) invokes a preequilibrium and diffusion toward defects, the other is based on direct and local reaction. We resolve this dispute by quantifying site-specific reactivity using a curved platinum single-crystal surface. Reactivity is step-type dependent and varies linearly with step density. Only the model that relies on localized dissociation is consistent with our results. Our approach provides absolute, site-specific reaction cross sections.
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Cao K, Füchsel G, Kleyn AW, Juurlink LBF. Hydrogen adsorption and desorption from Cu(111) and Cu(211). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:22477-22488. [PMID: 30140805 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03386b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present a combined experimental-theoretical study on structural and coverage dependences of the adsorption and desorption of molecular hydrogen on atomically flat Cu(111) and highly stepped Cu(211) surfaces. For molecules with identical incident energy from supersonic molecular beams, we find a reduced dissociative sticking probability for the stepped surface compared to Cu(111). DFT calculations of activation barriers to dissociation for the clean and partially precovered surfaces, as well as quantitative analysis of TPD spectra, support that the A-type step of the (211) surface causes an upward shift in activation barriers to dissociation and lowering of the desorption barrier. The new data allow us to determine low sticking probabilities at conditions where King and Wells measurements fail to determine the reactivity. They are also fully consistent with the unexpected observation that monoatomic steps on a surface lower the reactivity toward the dissociation of a diatomic molecule.
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- Kun Cao
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Juurlink L. Stepped surfaces. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2018; 30:090301. [PMID: 29417932 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aaa982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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- Ludo Juurlink
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
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Füchsel G, Cao K, Er S, Smeets EWF, Kleyn AW, Juurlink LBF, Kroes GJ. Anomalous Dependence of the Reactivity on the Presence of Steps: Dissociation of D 2 on Cu(211). J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:170-175. [PMID: 29262681 PMCID: PMC5759030 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Stepped metal surfaces are usually assumed to exhibit an increased catalytic activity for bond cleavage of small molecules over their flat single-crystal counterparts. We present experimental and theoretical data on the dissociative adsorption of molecular hydrogen on copper that contradicts this notion. We observe hydrogen molecules to be more reactive on the flat Cu(111) than on the stepped Cu(211) surface. We suggest that this exceptional behavior is due to a geometric effect, that is, that bond cleavage on the flat surface does not occur preferentially over a top site.
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- Gernot Füchsel
- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Center
for Computational Energy Research, Dutch
Institute For Fundamental Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612
AJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Center
of Interface Dynamics for Sustainability, Institute of Materials,
CAEP, 596 Yinhe Road
seventh Section, Shuangliu,Chengdu, Sichuan 610200, People’s
Republic of China
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- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- L.B.F.J.: E-mail: . Tel: +31 (0)71 527 4221
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- Leiden
Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- G.-J.K.: E-mail: . Tel: +31 (0)71 527 4396
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Woodruff DP. Adsorption and reaction at stepped surfaces: a historical viewpoint. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:491001. [PMID: 27731312 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/49/491001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- D P Woodruff
- Physics Department, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Janlamool J, Bashlakov D, Berg O, Praserthdam P, Jongsomjit B, Juurlink LBF. Desorption of water from distinct step types on a curved silver crystal. Molecules 2014; 19:10845-62. [PMID: 25068782 PMCID: PMC6270861 DOI: 10.3390/molecules190810845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Revised: 05/28/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We have investigated the adsorption of H2O onto the A and B type steps on an Ag single crystal by temperature programmed desorption. For this study, we have used a curved crystal exposing a continuous range of surface structures ranging from [5(111) × (100)] via (111) to [5(111) × (110)]. LEED and STM studies verify that the curvature of our sample results predominantly from monoatomic steps. The sample thus provides a continuous array of step densities for both step types. Desorption probed by spatially-resolved TPD of multilayers of H2O shows no dependence on the exact substrate structure and thus confirms the absence of thermal gradients during temperature ramps. In the submonolayer regime, we observe a small and linear dependence of the desorption temperature on the A and B step density. We argue that such small differences are only observable by means of a single curved crystal, which thus establishes new experimental benchmarks for theoretical calculation of chemically accurate binding energies. We propose an origin of the observed behavior based on a “two state” desorption model.
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- Jakrapan Janlamool
- Center of Excellence on Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO BOX 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO BOX 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Center of Excellence on Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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- Center of Excellence on Catalysis and Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO BOX 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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