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Synergetic interaction between neighbouring platinum monomers in CO2 hydrogenation.

Nature nanotechnology (2018-03-21)
Hongliang Li, Liangbing Wang, Yizhou Dai, Zhengtian Pu, Zhuohan Lao, Yawei Chen, Menglin Wang, Xusheng Zheng, Junfa Zhu, Wenhua Zhang, Rui Si, Chao Ma, Jie Zeng
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Exploring the interaction between two neighbouring monomers has great potential to significantly raise the performance and deepen the mechanistic understanding of heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we demonstrate that the synergetic interaction between neighbouring Pt monomers on MoS2 greatly enhanced the CO2 hydrogenation catalytic activity and reduced the activation energy relative to isolated monomers. Neighbouring Pt monomers were achieved by increasing the Pt mass loading up to 7.5% while maintaining the atomic dispersion of Pt. Mechanistic studies reveal that neighbouring Pt monomers not only worked in synergy to vary the reaction barrier, but also underwent distinct reaction paths compared with isolated monomers. Isolated Pt monomers favour the conversion of CO2 into methanol without the formation of formic acid, whereas CO2 is hydrogenated stepwise into formic acid and methanol for neighbouring Pt monomers. The discovery of the synergetic interaction between neighbouring monomers may create a new path for manipulating catalytic properties.

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Hexacloroplatinato (IV) de potasio, ≥99.9% trace metals basis