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SCIENCE
Volume 329, Issue 5999, Pages 1633-1636Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1192449
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Hydrogen Fuel Initiative [DE-FG02-05ER15730]
- NSF [0304515, 0828666]
- Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Micromeritics Corporation
- U.S. DOE/BES [DE-FG02-05ER15731, DE-FG02-03ER15468]
- DOE
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [0304515] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0828666] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report that alkali ions (sodium or potassium) added in small amounts activate platinum adsorbed on alumina or silica for the low-temperature water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (H2O + CO -> H-2 + CO2) used for producing H2. The alkali ion-associated surface OH groups are activated by CO at low temperatures (similar to 100 degrees C) in the presence of atomically dispersed platinum. Both experimental evidence and density functional theory calculations suggest that a partially oxidized Pt-alkali-O-x(OH)(y) species is the active site for the low-temperature Pt-catalyzed WGS reaction. These findings are useful for the design of highly active and stable WGS catalysts that contain only trace amounts of a precious metal without the need for a reducible oxide support such as ceria.
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