Remarkable NO oxidation on single supported platinum atoms

Chaitanya K. Narula, Lawrence F. Allard, G. M. Stocks, Melanie Moses-Debusk

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Abstract

Our first-principles density functional theoretical modeling suggests that NO oxidation is feasible on fully oxidized single θ-Al2O3 supported platinum atoms via a modified Langmuir-Hinshelwood pathway. This is in contrast to the known decrease in NO oxidation activity of supported platinum with decreasing Pt particle size believed to be due to increased platinum oxidation. In order to validate our theoretical study, we evaluated single θ-Al2O3 supported platinum atoms and found them to exhibit remarkable NO oxidation activity. A comparison of turnover frequencies (TOF) of single supported Pt atoms with those of platinum particles for NO oxidation shows that single supported Pt atoms are as active as fully formed platinum particles. Thus, the overall picture of NO oxidation on supported Pt is that NO oxidation activity decreases with decreasing Pt particle size but accelerates when Pt is present only as single atoms.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7238
JournalScientific Reports
Volume4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Funding

The research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office, Propulsion Materials Program (C.K.N., M.M.D. L.F.A.) and Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (G.M.S.) under contract DE-AC05-ooOR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. The DRIFTS studies were conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is sponsored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy.

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