Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano12132306
Keywords
platinum nanoparticles; NaCl templated; 2D-yttria nanosheet; CO oxidation; X-ray absorption fine structure
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- Photon Science Research Center for Carbon Dioxide
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2017YFA0403402]
- Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1932119]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFA0405800]
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This paper reports a facile route to prepare yttria nanosheets using NaCl as a template to support platinum nanoparticles, which exhibit higher CO oxidation activity compared to traditionally prepared Pt/Y2O3. The study demonstrates that nano-sized Pt species with the PtxOy structure play a crucial role in the CO oxidation process and Pt nanoparticles supported on NaCl templated Y2O3 are more easily reduced, providing more Pt adsorption sites for CO oxidation.
Morphology of support is of fundamental significance to the fabrication of highly efficient catalysts for CO oxidation reaction. Many methods for the construction of supports with specific morphology and structures greatly rely on controlling general physical and chemical synthesis conditions such as temperature or pH. In this paper, we report a facile route to prepare yttria nanosheet using NaCl as template to support platinum nanoparticles exhibiting higher CO oxidation activity than that of the normally prepared Pt/Y2O3. With the help of TEM and SEM, we found that Pt NPs evenly distributed on the surface of NaCl modified 2D-nanosheets with smaller size. The combination of XAFS and TEM characterizations demonstrated that the nano-size Pt species with PtxOy structure played an essential role in the conversion of CO and kept steady during the CO oxidation process. Moreover, the Pt nanoparticles supported on the NaCl templated Y2O3 nanosheets could be more easily reduced and thus exposed more Pt sites to adsorb CO molecules for CO oxidation according to XPS and DRIFTS results. This work offers a unique and general method for the preparation of potential non-cerium oxide rare earth element oxide supported nanocatalysts.
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