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JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages 1084-1089Publisher
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S1600577514014854
Keywords
heterogeneous catalysis; diffraction-limited storage rings; single-particle spectroscopy; time resolved; X-ray absorption; X-ray emission
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- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-03ER15476]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-03ER15476] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Heterogeneous catalysis is the enabling technology for much of the current and future processes relevant for energy conversion and chemicals synthesis. The development of new materials and processes is greatly helped by the understanding of the catalytic process at the molecular level on the macro/micro-kinetic time scale and on that of the actual bond breaking and bond making. The performance of heterogeneous catalysts is inherently the average over the ensemble of active sites. Much development aims at unravelling the structure of the active site; however, in general, these methods yield the ensemble-average structure. A benefit of X-ray-based methods is the large penetration depth of the X-rays, enabling in situ and operando measurements. The potential of X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy methods (XANES, EXAFS, HERFD, RIXS and HEROS) to directly measure the structure of the catalytically active site at the single nanoparticle level using nanometer beams at diffraction-limited storage ring sources is highlighted. The use of pump-probe schemes coupled with single-shot experiments will extend the time range from the micro/macro-kinetic time domain to the time scale of bond breaking and making.
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