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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 14, Pages 4796-4801Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp22873d
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- Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
- Swedish Research Council
- Crafoord Foundation
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Anna and Edwin Berger Foundation
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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The structure and chemical composition of Pd nanoparticles exposed to pure CO and mixtures of CO and O-2 at elevated temperatures have been studied in situ by a combination of X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in pressures ranging from ultra high vacuum to 10 mbar and from room temperature to a few hundred degrees celsius. Our investigation shows that under CO exposure, above a certain temperature, carbon dissolves into the Pd particles forming a carbide phase. Upon exposure to CO and O-2 mixtures, the carbide phase forms and disappears reversibly, switching at the stoichiometric ratio for CO oxidation. This finding opens new scenarios for the understanding of catalytic oxidation of C-based molecules.
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