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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 13, Pages 4580-4587Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13624
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- NWO-Vici grant
- NWO-Top grant
- European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme [686086]
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Resolving the structure and composition of supported nanoparticles under reaction conditions remains a challenge in heterogeneous catalysis. Advanced configurational sampling methods at the density functional theory level are used to identify stable structures of a Pd-8 cluster on ceria (CeO2) in the absence and presence of O-2. A Monte Carlo method in the Gibbs ensemble predicts Pd-oxide particles to be stable on CeO2 during CO oxidation. Computed potential energy diagrams for CO oxidation reaction cycles are used as input for microkinetics simulations. Pd-oxide exhibits a much higher CO oxidation activity than metallic Pd on CeO2. This work presents for the first time a scaling relation for a CeO2-supported nanopartide catalyst in CO oxidation: a higher oxidation degree of the Pd cluster weakens CO binding and facilitates the rate determining CO oxidation step with a ceria O atom. Our approach provides a new strategy to model supported nanoparticle catalysts.
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