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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 9, Pages 3589-3593Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00602
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- Italian Ministry of University and Research through the PRIN 2107 Program [2017KKP5ZR]
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The mechanisms of CO oxidation on the Mg0.2Co0.2Ni0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O high-entropy oxide were studied by means of operando soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy. We found that Cu is the active metal and that Cu(II) can be rapidly reduced to Cu(I) by CO when the temperature is higher than 130 degrees C. Co and Ni do not have any role in this respect. The Cu(II) oxidation state can be easily but slowly recovered by treatment of the sample with O-2 at ca. 250 degrees C. However, it should be noted that CuO is readily and irreversibly reduced to Cu(I) when it is treated with CO at T > 100 degrees C. Thus, the main conclusion of this work is that the high configurational entropy of Mg0.2Co0.2Ni0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O stabilizes the rock-salt structure and permits the oxidation/reduction of Cu to be reversible, thus permitting the catalytic cycle to take place.
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