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Title: Confinement Effects on Furfuryl Alcohol Reactions over Porous Bilayer Silica-Modified Pd(111)

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

In recent years, hexagonally ordered silica bilayer films have been successfully grown and characterized on metal substrates. To investigate how confinement effects from the silica films can influence catalytic reactions, we studied the reaction of furfuryl alcohol on a Pd(111) surface modified with a ~4 Å thick silica bilayer film [BL-silica/Pd(111)] containing micro- and mesopores. Temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) experiments showed that BL-silica/Pd(111) catalyzed similar reactions to those catalyzed by bare Pd(111); however, the products desorbed at higher temperatures in the presence of the film. In addition, hydrogenation of trapped C3HX fragments at high temperature was detected on BL-silica/Pd(111), which resulted in propane production. Density functional theory calculations indicated that the BL-silica film weakened adsorption of reaction intermediates, including atomic hydrogen, on the Pd surface. The overall effect of the film opens the possibility of selectively hydrogenating multifunctional molecules, with significantly higher selectivity than on the bare Pd(111) surface.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1756174
Report Number(s):
BNL-220761-2020-JAAM
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Vol. 124, Issue 46; ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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