Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 7, Issue 41, Pages 23868-23877Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9ta04572d
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1764230, CHE-1807847]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [F-1841]
- 2017 Hamilton/Schoch Fellowship
- 2018 Department Excellence Fellowship
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Recently, we found that the atomic ensemble effect is the dominant effect influencing catalysis on surfaces alloyed with strong- and weak-binding elements, determining the activity and selectivity of many reactions on the alloy surface. In this study we design single-atom alloys that possess unique dehydrogenation selectivity towards ethanol (EtOH) partial oxidation, using knowledge of the alloying effects from density functional theory calculations. We found that doping of a strong-binding single-atom element (e.g., Ir, Pd, Pt, and Rh) into weak-binding inert close-packed substrates (e.g., Au, Ag, and Cu) leads to a highly active and selective initial dehydrogenation at the alpha-C-H site of adsorbed EtOH. We show that many of these stable single-atom alloy surfaces not only have tunable hydrogen binding, which allows for facile hydrogen desorption, but are also resistant to carbon coking. More importantly, we show that a rational design of the ensemble geometry can tune the selectivity of a catalytic reaction.
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