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Title: New Insights into the Bulk and Surface Defect Structures of Ceria Nanocrystals from Neutron Scattering Study

Abstract

Neutron diffraction and pair distribution function studies coupled with Raman spectroscopy have successfully unraveled the detailed oxygen defect structures of ceria nanocubes and nanorods. Two types of defect sites are revealed for the ceria nanocrystals: surface and bulk defects. It is proposed that the surface oxygen defects in both types of CeO2 nanocrystals are predominantly the partially reduced Ce3O5+x, with the bulk defect structures dominated by interstitial Frenkel-type oxygen vacancies. Ceria nanorods possess much higher concentration of surface oxygen defects relative to the nanocubes, albeit with only slightly higher concentration of bulk Frenkel-type oxygen vacancies. Upon annealing the nanorod sample at 600 °C under vacuum (~10–4 to 10–5 mbar), a partially reduced ceria phase with long-range oxygen vacancy ordering (Ce3O5+x) has been observed experimentally for the first time. This intriguing observation that surface defect phases can take on ordered defect sublattices under certain conditions is of great value in understanding the temperature-dependent catalytic performance of ceria nanocrystals. Furthermore, a drastic decrease of the surface vacancies in the ceria nanocrystals is observed upon exposure to SO2, especially for the nanorods, a likely origin for the sulfur poisoning effect on ceria-based materials. This study suggests that tailoring surface morphology is a promisingmore » strategy to control defect properties of ceria nanomaterials. It also provides fundamental insights to stabilize surface oxygen defects in CeO2 nanocrystals to achieve high redox performance under corrosive environments such as under SO2/SOx exposure.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [5]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
  4. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1797634
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Chemistry of Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 33; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; oxides; nanocubes; oxygen; defects; nanorods

Citation Formats

Luo, Si, Li, Meijun, Fung, Victor, Sumpter, Bobby, Liu, Jue, Wu, Zili, and Page, Katharine. New Insights into the Bulk and Surface Defect Structures of Ceria Nanocrystals from Neutron Scattering Study. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00156.
Luo, Si, Li, Meijun, Fung, Victor, Sumpter, Bobby, Liu, Jue, Wu, Zili, & Page, Katharine. New Insights into the Bulk and Surface Defect Structures of Ceria Nanocrystals from Neutron Scattering Study. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00156
Luo, Si, Li, Meijun, Fung, Victor, Sumpter, Bobby, Liu, Jue, Wu, Zili, and Page, Katharine. Thu . "New Insights into the Bulk and Surface Defect Structures of Ceria Nanocrystals from Neutron Scattering Study". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00156. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1797634.
@article{osti_1797634,
title = {New Insights into the Bulk and Surface Defect Structures of Ceria Nanocrystals from Neutron Scattering Study},
author = {Luo, Si and Li, Meijun and Fung, Victor and Sumpter, Bobby and Liu, Jue and Wu, Zili and Page, Katharine},
abstractNote = {Neutron diffraction and pair distribution function studies coupled with Raman spectroscopy have successfully unraveled the detailed oxygen defect structures of ceria nanocubes and nanorods. Two types of defect sites are revealed for the ceria nanocrystals: surface and bulk defects. It is proposed that the surface oxygen defects in both types of CeO2 nanocrystals are predominantly the partially reduced Ce3O5+x, with the bulk defect structures dominated by interstitial Frenkel-type oxygen vacancies. Ceria nanorods possess much higher concentration of surface oxygen defects relative to the nanocubes, albeit with only slightly higher concentration of bulk Frenkel-type oxygen vacancies. Upon annealing the nanorod sample at 600 °C under vacuum (~10–4 to 10–5 mbar), a partially reduced ceria phase with long-range oxygen vacancy ordering (Ce3O5+x) has been observed experimentally for the first time. This intriguing observation that surface defect phases can take on ordered defect sublattices under certain conditions is of great value in understanding the temperature-dependent catalytic performance of ceria nanocrystals. Furthermore, a drastic decrease of the surface vacancies in the ceria nanocrystals is observed upon exposure to SO2, especially for the nanorods, a likely origin for the sulfur poisoning effect on ceria-based materials. This study suggests that tailoring surface morphology is a promising strategy to control defect properties of ceria nanomaterials. It also provides fundamental insights to stabilize surface oxygen defects in CeO2 nanocrystals to achieve high redox performance under corrosive environments such as under SO2/SOx exposure.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00156},
journal = {Chemistry of Materials},
number = 11,
volume = 33,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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