Description of supported metal structure sensitivity by a geometric approach

A series of Pt/Al2O3 catalysts with uniform Pt particle sizes ranging from 0.95 to 2.62 nm was synthesized using the refilling method control growing nanoparticles and evaluated in propane dehydrogenation. An effect size on initial activity TOF demonstrated, smallest particles being most active. geometric model developed quantify surface site concentration for any fcc metal size. Comparing evolution dehydrogenation different concentrations, it shown that active sites corresponded combination corner edge atoms. To get further, confronted numerous data extracted literature demonstrating is an efficient tool predict structure–activity relationship determine exact nature a wide range reactions metals.