New strategy boosting carbon dioxide reduction to carbon monoxide
Classical strong metal-support interaction (SMSI) describes that reducible oxide migrates to the surface metal nanoparticles (NPs) to obtain metal@oxide encapsulation structure during high-temperature H2 thermal treatment, resulting in high selectivity and stability.
New strategy boosting carbon dioxide reduction to carbon monoxide
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However, the encapsulation structure inhibits the adsorption and dissociation of reactant molecular (e.g., H2) over metal, leading to low activity, especially for the hydrogenation reaction.
Recently, a research group led by Prof. LIU Yuefeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has proposed a new migration strategy, in which the TiO2 selectively migrates to second oxide support rather than the surface of metal NPs in Ru/(TiOx)MnO catalysts, boosting the CO2 reduction to CO via reverse water-gas shift reaction.
The researchers achieved controlled migration by utilizing the strong interaction between TiO2 and MnO in Ru/(TiOx)MnO catalysts during H2 thermal treatment, and TiO2 spontaneously re-dispersed on the MnO surface, avoiding the formation of TiOx shell on Ru NPs for the ternary catalyst (Ru/TiOx/MnO).
Meanwhile, high-density TiOx/MnO interfaces generated during the process, acting as a highly efficient H transportation channel with low barrier, and resulting in enhanced H-spillover for the migration of activated H species from metal Ru to support for consequent reaction.
The Ru/TiOx/MnO catalyst showed 3.3-fold catalytic activity for CO2 reduction to CO compared with Ru/MnO catalyst. In addition, the Ti/Mn support preparation was not sensitive to the crystalline structure and grain size of TiO2 NPs. Even the mechanical mixing of Ru/TiO2 and Ru/MnOx enhanced the activity.
Moreover, they verified that the synergistic effect of TiO2 and MnO didn't alter the catalytic intrinsic performance, and efficient H transport provided a large number of active sites (hydroxyl groups) for the reaction process.
"Our study provides references for the design of novel selective hydrogenation catalysts via the in-situ creation of oxide-oxide interfaces acting as hydrogen species transport channels," said Prof. LIU.
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