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NATURE CATALYSIS
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 663-673Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-021-00656-4
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences and Materials Sciences Division of the US DOE at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- DOE Office of Science User Facility
- Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Science Foundation [ACI-1548562]
- Nanyang Assistant Professorship grant from Nanyang Technological University
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 from the Singapore Ministry of Education [RG108/17, RG177/18]
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Understanding the adsorption and oxidation of NO on metal oxides is an important topic in environmental and atmospheric chemistry. Surface oxygen activity on La1-xSrxCoO3 perovskites dictates the adsorption and oxidation kinetics of NO, with increasing surface oxygen activity leading to stronger adsorption and oxidation kinetics, but too strong NO adsorption can poison surface oxygen sites.
Understanding the adsorption and oxidation of NO on metal oxides is of immense interest to environmental and atmospheric (bio)chemistry. Here, we show that the surface oxygen activity, defined as the oxygen 2p-band centre relative to the Fermi level, dictates the adsorption and surface coverage of NOx and the kinetics of NO oxidation for La1-xSrxCoO3 perovskites. Density functional theory and ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed favourable NO adsorption on surface oxygen sites. Increasing the surface oxygen activity by increasing the strontium substitution led to stronger adsorption and greater storage of NO2, which resulted in more adsorbed nitrogen-like species and molecular nitrogen formed upon exposure to CO. The NO oxidation kinetics exhibited a volcano trend with surface oxygen activity, centred at La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 and with an intrinsic activity comparable to state-of-the-art catalysts. We rationalize the volcano trend by showing that increasing the NO adsorption enhances the oxidation kinetics, although NO adsorption that is too strong poisons the surface oxygen sites with adsorbed NO2 to impede the kinetics.
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