Population and hierarchy of active species in gold iron oxide catalysts for carbon monoxide oxidation

He, Qian; Freakley, Simon J.; Edwards, Jennifer K.; Carley, Albert F.; Borisevich, Albina Y.; Mineo, Yuki; Haruta, Masatake; Hutchings, Graham J.; Kiely, Christopher J.

doi:10.1038/ncomms12905

Title: Population and hierarchy of active species in gold iron oxide catalysts for carbon monoxide oxidation

Journal Article · Tue Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12905· OSTI ID:1329164

He, Qian ^[1]; Freakley, Simon J. ^[2]; Edwards, Jennifer K. ^[2]; Carley, Albert F. ^[2]; Borisevich, Albina Y. ^[3]; Mineo, Yuki ^[4]; Haruta, Masatake ^[4]; Hutchings, Graham J. ^[2]; Kiely, Christopher J. ^[5]

Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Cardiff Univ., Cardiff (United Kingdom)
Cardiff Univ., Cardiff (United Kingdom)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo (Japan)
Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States)

The identity of active species in supported gold catalysts for low temperature carbon monoxide oxidation remains an unsettled debate. With large amounts of experimental evidence supporting theories of either gold nanoparticles or sub-nm gold species being active, it was recently proposed that a size-dependent activity hierarchy should exist. Here we study the diverging catalytic behaviors after heat treatment of Au/FeO_x materials prepared via co-precipitation and deposition precipitation methods. After ruling out any support effects, the gold particle size distributions in different catalysts are quantitatively studied using aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). A counting protocol is developed to reveal the true particle size distribution from HAADF-STEM images, which reliably includes all the gold species present. As a result, correlation of the populations of the various gold species present with catalysis results demonstrate that a size-dependent activity hierarchy must exist in the Au/FeO_x catalyst.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1329164

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

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