Growth and structural studies of In/Au(111) alloys and InOx/Au(111) inverse oxide/metal model catalysts

Kang, Jindong; Mahapatra, Mausumi; Rui, Ning; Orozco, Ivan; Shi, Rui; Senanayake, Sanjaya D.; Rodriguez, José A.

doi:10.1063/1.5139237

Growth and structural studies of In/Au(111) alloys and InO_x/Au(111) inverse oxide/metal model catalysts

Journal Article · Mon Feb 03 04:00:00 EST 2020 · Journal of Chemical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5139237· OSTI ID:1633598

^[1]; Mahapatra, Mausumi ^[2]; Rui, Ning ^[2]; Orozco, Ivan ^[1]; Shi, Rui ^[1]; Senanayake, Sanjaya D. ^[2]; ^[3]

State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Indium oxide has received attention as an exciting candidate for catalyzing the CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol due to its high selectivity (>80%). Compared to the extent of research on the activity of indium oxide-based powder catalysts, very little is known about the phenomena associated with the formation of surface alloys involving indium or the growth mechanism for indium oxide nanoparticles. In this report, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were employed to elucidate the growth mode, structure, and chemical state of In/Au(111) alloys and InO_x/Au(111) inverse model catalysts. Here, our study reveals distinct morphological differences between In/Au(111) and InO_x/Au(111), and the InO_x structure also depends strongly on the preparation conditions. In/Au surface alloy systems with extremely low coverage (0.02 ML) form islands preferentially on the elbow sites of reconstructed Au(111) herringbone, regardless of hcp and fcc stacking. At higher coverage (0.1 ML), the In islands expand over the herringbone in the <110> direction and create two dimensional domain structures over the entire surfaces. Moreover, this 2D domain structure is disturbed by temperature with high dispersion of indium atoms observed during the annealing process. Oxidation of the In/Au(111) surface alloys with O₂ at 550 K produces InO_x/Au(111) systems which contain various sizes of InO_x aggregates (from 0.7 to 10 nm). On the other hand, InO_x/Au(111) surfaces prepared by vapor deposition of In at 550 K in an O₂ background exhibit highly dispersed and uniformly small InO_x particles (~1 nm). Both InO_x systems were confirmed to be partially oxidized by XPS.

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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) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1633598

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1596892

Report Number(s):: BNL--216032-2020-JAAM

Journal Information:: Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 152; ISSN 0021-9606

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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