Many important catalytic reactions take place at metal–oxide interfaces. However, their mechanisms are typically difficult to probe due the low concentration of active sites and lack highly sensitive spectroscopic methods. In this work, we analyze impact oxide reducibility on mechanism low-temperature CO oxidation over platinum nanoparticles supported ceria-based solid solutions. We demonstrate...

Ultrathin metal layers can be highly active carbon dioxide electroreduction catalysts, but may also be prone to oxidation. Here we construct a model of graphene confined ultrathin layers of highly reactive metals, taking the synthetic highly reactive tin quantum sheets confined in graphene as an example. The higher electrochemical active area ensures 9 times larger carbon dioxide adsorption cap...

Platinum and Pt alloy nanoparticles supported on carbon are the state of the art electrocatalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. To develop a better understanding on how material design can influence the degradation processes on the nanoscale, three specific Pt/C catalysts with different structural characteristics were investigated in depth: a conventional Pt/Vulcan catalyst with a par...

NH 3 is effectively oxidised on Pt via O-activated dissociation when a minimum particle size to contain favourable surface atom configuration reached. Different mechanisms were found govern oxidation nanoparticles and single sites.

Active and highly stable oxide-supported IrNiO(x) core-shell catalysts for electrochemical water splitting are presented. IrNi(x)@IrO(x) nanoparticles supported on high-surface-area mesoporous antimony-doped tin oxide (IrNiO(x)/Meso-ATO) were synthesized from bimetallic IrNi(x) precursor alloys (PA-IrNi(x) /Meso-ATO) using electrochemical Ni leaching and concomitant Ir oxidation. Special emphas...

Covalent triazine frameworks, which are crosslinked porous polymers with two-dimensional molecular structures, are promising materials for heterogeneous catalysts. However, the application of the frameworks as electrocatalysts has not been achieved to date because of their poor electrical conductivity. Here we report that platinum-modified covalent triazine frameworks hybridized with conductive...

the silica supported platinum nanoparticles was synthesized by using the sol-gel method. the possibility of using diamminedinitro platinum (ii) as pt precursor and effect of metal precursor concentration on the final pt nanoparticle size was investigated. a stable silica sol was prepared via hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate (teos) as a metal alcoxide and condensation reaction. subsequentl...

The role of partially fluorinated carbon (CFx) supported platinum nanoparticles as proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) electrodes in a hydrogen is investigated. CFx employed catalyst support via impregnation for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at various loadings to determine the optimal loading ORR and compared widely used (non-fluorinated) Vulcan Carbon (XC-72R). In half-cell testing, ...