Nanoceria Supported Single-Atom Platinum Catalysts for Direct Methane Conversion

Xie, Pengfei; Pu, Tiancheng; Nie, Anmin; Hwang, Sooyeon; Purdy, Stephen C.; Yu, Wenjian; Su, Dong; Miller, Jeff T.; Wang, Chao

doi:10.1021/acscatal.8b00004

Title: Nanoceria Supported Single-Atom Platinum Catalysts for Direct Methane Conversion

Journal Article · Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b00004· OSTI ID:1431456

Xie, Pengfei ^[1]; Pu, Tiancheng ^[1]; Nie, Anmin ^[2]; Hwang, Sooyeon ^[3]; Purdy, Stephen C. ^[4]; Yu, Wenjian ^[1]; Su, Dong ^[3]; Miller, Jeff T. ^[4]; Wang, Chao ^[1]

Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Shanghai Univ., Shanghai (China). Shanghai Univ. Materials Genome Inst. and Shanghai Materials Genome Inst.
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). School of Chemical Engineering

Nanoceria-supported atomic Pt catalysts (denoted as Pt₁@CeO₂) have been synthesized and demonstrated with advanced catalytic performance for the non-oxidative, direct conversion of methane. These catalysts were synthesized by calcination of Pt-impregnated porous ceria nanoparticles at high temperature (ca. 1,000 °C), with the atomic dispersion of Pt characterized by combining aberra-tion-corrected high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption spec-troscopy (XAS) and diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) analyses. The Pt₁@CeO₂ catalysts exhibited much superior catalytic performance to its nanoparticulated counterpart, achieving 14.4% of methane conversion at 975 °C and 74.6% selectivity toward C₂ products (ethane, ethylene and acetylene). Comparative studies of the Pt1@CeO₂ catalysts with different loadings as well as the nanoparticulated counterpart reveal the single-atom Pt to be the active sites for selective conversion of methane into C₂ hydrocarbons.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1431456

Report Number(s):: BNL-203465-2018-JAAM

Journal Information:: ACS Catalysis, Vol. 8; ISSN 2155-5435

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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