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Title: Controlling Reaction Selectivity through the Surface Termination of Perovskite Catalysts

Abstract

Abstract Although perovskites have been widely used in catalysis, tuning of their surface termination to control reaction selectivity has not been well established. In this study, we employed multiple surface‐sensitive techniques to characterize the surface termination (one aspect of surface reconstruction) of SrTiO 3 (STO) after thermal pretreatment (Sr enrichment) and chemical etching (Ti enrichment). We show, by using the conversion of 2‐propanol as a probe reaction, that the surface termination of STO can be controlled to greatly tune catalytic acid/base properties and consequently the reaction selectivity over a wide range, which is not possible with single‐metal oxides, either SrO or TiO 2 . Density functional theory (DFT) calculations explain well the selectivity tuning and reaction mechanism on STO with different surface termination. Similar catalytic tunability was also observed on BaZrO 3 , thus highlighting the generality of the findings of this study.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
  3. Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville, TN (United States)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1399923
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1378301
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition); Journal Volume: 56; Journal Issue: 33; Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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Polo-Garzon, Felipe, Yang, Shi-Ze, Fung, Victor, Foo, Guo Shiou, Bickel, Elizabeth E., Chisholm, Matthew F., Jiang, De-en, and Wu, Zili. Controlling Reaction Selectivity through the Surface Termination of Perovskite Catalysts. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1002/anie.201704656.
Polo-Garzon, Felipe, Yang, Shi-Ze, Fung, Victor, Foo, Guo Shiou, Bickel, Elizabeth E., Chisholm, Matthew F., Jiang, De-en, & Wu, Zili. Controlling Reaction Selectivity through the Surface Termination of Perovskite Catalysts. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201704656
Polo-Garzon, Felipe, Yang, Shi-Ze, Fung, Victor, Foo, Guo Shiou, Bickel, Elizabeth E., Chisholm, Matthew F., Jiang, De-en, and Wu, Zili. Wed . "Controlling Reaction Selectivity through the Surface Termination of Perovskite Catalysts". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201704656. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1399923.
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title = {Controlling Reaction Selectivity through the Surface Termination of Perovskite Catalysts},
author = {Polo-Garzon, Felipe and Yang, Shi-Ze and Fung, Victor and Foo, Guo Shiou and Bickel, Elizabeth E. and Chisholm, Matthew F. and Jiang, De-en and Wu, Zili},
abstractNote = {Abstract Although perovskites have been widely used in catalysis, tuning of their surface termination to control reaction selectivity has not been well established. In this study, we employed multiple surface‐sensitive techniques to characterize the surface termination (one aspect of surface reconstruction) of SrTiO 3 (STO) after thermal pretreatment (Sr enrichment) and chemical etching (Ti enrichment). We show, by using the conversion of 2‐propanol as a probe reaction, that the surface termination of STO can be controlled to greatly tune catalytic acid/base properties and consequently the reaction selectivity over a wide range, which is not possible with single‐metal oxides, either SrO or TiO 2 . Density functional theory (DFT) calculations explain well the selectivity tuning and reaction mechanism on STO with different surface termination. Similar catalytic tunability was also observed on BaZrO 3 , thus highlighting the generality of the findings of this study.},
doi = {10.1002/anie.201704656},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)},
number = 33,
volume = 56,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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