DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Elucidation of the Active Sites in Single-Atom Pd1/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation

Abstract

Supported precious metals with atomic dispersion are of great interest in catalysis due to their potentials in achieving maximum atom efficiency and unique reactivities. Herein, the active sites for low-temperature CO oxidation are elucidated over single-atom Pd1/CeO2 catalysts prepared via high-temperature atom trapping (AT). The increased oxygen vacancies on CeO2 surface induced by 800 °C air calcination result in decreased Pd–CeO2 coordinations, i.e., the coordination-unsaturated Pd2+ on CeO2. Light-off and light-out measurements coupled with CO-DRIFTS and X-ray absorption characterization confirm that these coordination-unsaturated Pd2+ on CeO2 are much more reactive than the fully coordinated counterpart, evidenced by a decrease of T90 (temperature to achieve 90% conversion) by ~100 °C in CO oxidation at a gas hourly space velocity of 300 L g–1 h–1.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  3. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab. (EMSL)
  4. Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1726231
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-155490
Journal ID: ISSN 2155-5435
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830; FG02-05ER15712; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Catalysis
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; palladium; colloids; catalysts; oxidation; reactivity; active site; CO oxidation; single-atom catalyst; atom trapping

Citation Formats

Jiang, Dong, Wan, Gang, García-Vargas, Carlos E., Li, Linze, Pereira-Hernández, Xavier Isidro, Wang, Chongmin, and Wang, Yong. Elucidation of the Active Sites in Single-Atom Pd1/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acscatal.0c02480.
Jiang, Dong, Wan, Gang, García-Vargas, Carlos E., Li, Linze, Pereira-Hernández, Xavier Isidro, Wang, Chongmin, & Wang, Yong. Elucidation of the Active Sites in Single-Atom Pd1/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c02480
Jiang, Dong, Wan, Gang, García-Vargas, Carlos E., Li, Linze, Pereira-Hernández, Xavier Isidro, Wang, Chongmin, and Wang, Yong. Thu . "Elucidation of the Active Sites in Single-Atom Pd1/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c02480. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1726231.
@article{osti_1726231,
title = {Elucidation of the Active Sites in Single-Atom Pd1/CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation},
author = {Jiang, Dong and Wan, Gang and García-Vargas, Carlos E. and Li, Linze and Pereira-Hernández, Xavier Isidro and Wang, Chongmin and Wang, Yong},
abstractNote = {Supported precious metals with atomic dispersion are of great interest in catalysis due to their potentials in achieving maximum atom efficiency and unique reactivities. Herein, the active sites for low-temperature CO oxidation are elucidated over single-atom Pd1/CeO2 catalysts prepared via high-temperature atom trapping (AT). The increased oxygen vacancies on CeO2 surface induced by 800 °C air calcination result in decreased Pd–CeO2 coordinations, i.e., the coordination-unsaturated Pd2+ on CeO2. Light-off and light-out measurements coupled with CO-DRIFTS and X-ray absorption characterization confirm that these coordination-unsaturated Pd2+ on CeO2 are much more reactive than the fully coordinated counterpart, evidenced by a decrease of T90 (temperature to achieve 90% conversion) by ~100 °C in CO oxidation at a gas hourly space velocity of 300 L g–1 h–1.},
doi = {10.1021/acscatal.0c02480},
journal = {ACS Catalysis},
number = 19,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

Works referenced in this record:

The local structure of Pd x Ce 1−x O 2−x−δ solid solutions
journal, January 2014

  • Gulyaev, R. V.; Kardash, T. Yu.; Malykhin, S. E.
  • Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Vol. 16, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01033G

Stable Pd-Doped Ceria Structures for CH 4 Activation and CO Oxidation
journal, November 2017


Noble Metal Ionic Catalysts
journal, June 2009

  • Hegde, M. S.; Madras, Giridhar; Patil, K. C.
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 42, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar800209s

Metal–support interaction in Pd/CeO 2 model catalysts for CO oxidation: from pulsed laser-ablated nanoparticles to highly active state of the catalyst
journal, January 2016

  • Slavinskaya, E. M.; Kardash, T. Yu.; Stonkus, O. A.
  • Catalysis Science & Technology, Vol. 6, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1039/C6CY00319B

Dynamic structural evolution of supported palladium–ceria core–shell catalysts revealed by in situ electron microscopy
journal, July 2015

  • Zhang, Shuyi; Chen, Chen; Cargnello, Matteo
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8778

Atomically Dispersed Pd–O Species on CeO 2 (111) as Highly Active Sites for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation
journal, September 2017


Superior oxygen transfer ability of Pd/MnOx-CeO2 for enhanced low temperature CO oxidation activity
journal, June 2017


Operando and Kinetic Study of Low-Temperature, Lean-Burn Methane Combustion over a Pd/γ-Al 2 O 3 Catalyst
journal, January 2012

  • Xu, Jing; Ouyang, Like; Mao, Wei
  • ACS Catalysis, Vol. 2, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/cs200694k

Non defect-stabilized thermally stable single-atom catalyst
journal, January 2019


Metallic Pd Nanoparticles Formed by Pd−O−Ce Interaction: A Reason for Sintering-Induced Activation for CO Oxidation
journal, November 2010

  • Hinokuma, Satoshi; Fujii, Hiroaki; Okamoto, Madoka
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 22, Issue 22
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm102355x

In situ preparation and investigation of Pd/CeO2 catalysts for the low-temperature oxidation of CO
journal, October 2012


Highly Active and Stable CH 4 Oxidation by Substitution of Ce 4+ by Two Pd 2+ Ions in CeO 2 (111)
journal, May 2018


Synergetic Effects of PdO Species on CO Oxidation over PdO–CeO 2 Catalysts
journal, September 2011

  • Meng, Lian; Jia, Ai-Ping; Lu, Ji-Qing
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 115, Issue 40
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp2056688

Use of CeO2-based oxides in the three-way catalysis
journal, April 1999


Heterogeneous single-atom catalysis
journal, May 2018


Noble metal ion substituted CeO2 catalysts: Electronic interaction between noble metal ions and CeO2 lattice
journal, September 2015


Highly selective defect-mediated photochemical CO2 conversion over fluorite ceria under ambient conditions
journal, January 2014

  • Jiang, Dong; Wang, Wenzhong; Gao, Erping
  • Chemical Communications, Vol. 50, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1039/c3cc47806h

Exceptional Activity for Methane Combustion over Modular Pd@CeO2 Subunits on Functionalized Al2O3
journal, August 2012


In situ spectroscopic investigation of a Pd local structure over Pd/CeO 2 and Pd/MnO x –CeO 2 during CO oxidation
journal, January 2017

  • Sasmaz, Erdem; Wang, Chao; Lance, Michael J.
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 5, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1039/C7TA00696A

Stabilizing High Metal Loadings of Thermally Stable Platinum Single Atoms on an Industrial Catalyst Support
journal, February 2019


Fully Dispersed Rh Ensemble Catalyst To Enhance Low-Temperature Activity
journal, July 2018

  • Jeong, Hojin; Lee, Geonhee; Kim, Beom-Sik
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 140, Issue 30
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04613

A Review on the Pd-Based Three-Way Catalyst
journal, November 2014


How Pt Interacts with CeO 2 under the Reducing and Oxidizing Environments at Elevated Temperature: The Origin of Improved Thermal Stability of Pt/CeO 2 Compared to CeO 2
journal, November 2016

  • Lee, Jaeha; Ryou, YoungSeok; Chan, Xiaojun
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120, Issue 45
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08656

Single-atom catalysis of CO oxidation using Pt1/FeOx
journal, July 2011

  • Qiao, Botao; Wang, Aiqin; Yang, Xiaofeng
  • Nature Chemistry, Vol. 3, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1095

Photochemical route for synthesizing atomically dispersed palladium catalysts
journal, May 2016


Sintering of Catalytic Nanoparticles: Particle Migration or Ostwald Ripening?
journal, April 2013

  • Hansen, Thomas W.; DeLaRiva, Andrew T.; Challa, Sivakumar R.
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 46, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar3002427

Probing Defect Sites on the CeO 2 Surface with Dioxygen
journal, April 2004

  • Pushkarev, Vladimir V.; Kovalchuk, Vladimir I.; d'Itri, Julie L.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 108, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp0311254

Promoting Effects of Hydrothermal Treatment on the Activity and Durability of Pd/CeO 2 Catalysts for CO Oxidation
journal, September 2017


Thermally stable single-atom platinum-on-ceria catalysts via atom trapping
journal, July 2016


Low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation catalysed by regenerable atomically dispersed palladium on alumina
journal, September 2014

  • Peterson, Eric J.; DeLaRiva, Andrew T.; Lin, Sen
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5885

Activation of surface lattice oxygen in single-atom Pt/CeO 2 for low-temperature CO oxidation
journal, December 2017


Identification of active sites in CO oxidation and water-gas shift over supported Pt catalysts
journal, September 2015


Control of Metal Nanocrystal Size Reveals Metal-Support Interface Role for Ceria Catalysts
journal, July 2013


Creating single-atom Pt-ceria catalysts by surface step decoration
journal, February 2016

  • Dvořák, Filip; Farnesi Camellone, Matteo; Tovt, Andrii
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10801

Nanofaceted PdO Sites in PdCe Surface Superstructures: Enhanced Activity in Catalytic Combustion of Methane
journal, October 2009

  • Colussi, Sara; Gayen, Arup; Farnesi Camellone, Matteo
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 48, Issue 45
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200903581

CHEMISTRY: Oxygen Vacancies and Catalysis on Ceria Surfaces
journal, July 2005


Insight Investigation of Active Palladium Surface Sites in Palladium-Ceria Catalysts for NO + CO Reaction
journal, April 2018

  • Tang, Ke; Ren, Yuqing; Liu, Wei
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 10, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b02557

Formation of Ce 1 - x Pd x O 2- δ Solid Solution in Combustion-Synthesized Pd/CeO 2 Catalyst:  XRD, XPS, and EXAFS Investigation
journal, May 2002

  • Priolkar, K. R.; Bera, Parthasarathi; Sarode, P. R.
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm0103895

Role of Site Stability in Methane Activation on Pd x Ce 1 –x O δ Surfaces
journal, September 2015

  • Senftle, Thomas P.; van Duin, Adri C. T.; Janik, Michael J.
  • ACS Catalysis, Vol. 5, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00741

Construction of Active Site in a Sintered Copper–Ceria Nanorod Catalyst
journal, October 2019

  • Yu, Wen-Zhu; Wang, Wei-Wei; Li, Shan-Qing
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 141, Issue 44
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05419

Chemical State Study of Palladium Powder and Ceria-Supported Palladium during Low-Temperature CO Oxidation
journal, June 2006

  • Oh, Seung-Hoon; Hoflund, Gar B.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 110, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp060435u

Single-Atom Pd 1 /Graphene Catalyst Achieved by Atomic Layer Deposition: Remarkable Performance in Selective Hydrogenation of 1,3-Butadiene
journal, August 2015

  • Yan, Huan; Cheng, Hao; Yi, Hong
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 33
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06485

Raman Spectra of Polycrystalline CeO 2 : A Density Functional Theory Study
journal, September 2017

  • Schilling, Christian; Hofmann, Alexander; Hess, Christian
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 121, Issue 38
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06643

Spectroscopic study of the interaction of carbon monoxide with cationic and metallic palladium in palladium–alumina catalysts
journal, January 1992

  • Tessier, Didier; Rakai, Ahmed; Bozon-Verduraz, François
  • J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., Vol. 88, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/FT9928800741

Pd-, Pt-, and Rh-Loaded Ce0.6Zr0.35Y0.05O2 Three-Way Catalysts: An Investigation on Performance and Redox Properties
journal, February 2002


Outstanding Methane Oxidation Performance of Palladium-Embedded Ceria Catalysts Prepared by a One-Step Dry Ball-Milling Method
journal, July 2018

  • Danielis, Maila; Colussi, Sara; de Leitenburg, Carla
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 130, Issue 32
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201805929

CO oxidation by Pd supported on CeO2(100) and CeO2(111) facets
journal, April 2019

  • Spezzati, Giulia; Benavidez, Angelica D.; DeLaRiva, Andrew T.
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Vol. 243
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2018.10.015

Low-temperature CO oxidation by Pd/CeO2 catalysts synthesized using the coprecipitation method
journal, May 2015


Tuning Pt-CeO2 interactions by high-temperature vapor-phase synthesis for improved reducibility of lattice oxygen
journal, March 2019

  • Pereira-Hernández, Xavier Isidro; DeLaRiva, Andrew; Muravev, Valery
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09308-5

Active Nonmetallic Au and Pt Species on Ceria-Based Water-Gas Shift Catalysts
journal, August 2003


Structural evolution of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts dictates reactivity
journal, April 2019


Ultra-Small Pd Nanoparticles on Ceria as an Advanced Catalyst for CO Oxidation
journal, April 2019

  • Tereshchenko, Andrei; Polyakov, Vladimir; Guda, Alexander
  • Catalysts, Vol. 9, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.3390/catal9040385

Can the state of platinum species be unambiguously determined by the stretching frequency of an adsorbed CO probe molecule?
journal, January 2016

  • Aleksandrov, Hristiyan A.; Neyman, Konstantin M.; Hadjiivanov, Konstantin I.
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 32
  • DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03988J

Bismuth-Induced Integration of Solar Energy Conversion with Synergistic Low-Temperature Catalysis in Ce 1– x Bi x O 2−δ Nanorods
journal, November 2013

  • Jiang, Dong; Wang, Wenzhong; Gao, Erping
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 117, Issue 46
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp4092943

Fundamentals and Catalytic Applications of CeO 2 -Based Materials
journal, April 2016


Probing Defect Sites on CeO 2 Nanocrystals with Well-Defined Surface Planes by Raman Spectroscopy and O 2 Adsorption
journal, November 2010

  • Wu, Zili; Li, Meijun; Howe, Jane
  • Langmuir, Vol. 26, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1021/la101723w

FeOx-supported platinum single-atom and pseudo-single-atom catalysts for chemoselective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes
journal, December 2014

  • Wei, Haisheng; Liu, Xiaoyan; Wang, Aiqin
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6634

Spectroscopic study of CO adsorption on palladium–ceria catalysts
journal, January 1996

  • Bensalem, Abdelhamid; Muller, Jean-Claude; Tessier, Didier
  • J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., Vol. 92, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1039/FT9969203233

Ceria and Its Defect Structure: New Insights from a Combined Spectroscopic Approach
journal, March 2016

  • Filtschew, Anastasia; Hofmann, Kathrin; Hess, Christian
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00959

Mild oxidation of methane to methanol or acetic acid on supported isolated rhodium catalysts
journal, November 2017

  • Shan, Junjun; Li, Mengwei; Allard, Lawrence F.
  • Nature, Vol. 551, Issue 7682
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature24640

Identification of active sites for CO and CH4 oxidation over PdO/Ce1−xPdxO2−δ catalysts
journal, May 2012


Investigation of palladium interaction with cerium oxide and its state in catalysts for low-temperature CO oxidation
journal, June 2009