Publication Date:
2010-10-12
Description:
We report that alkali ions (sodium or potassium) added in small amounts activate platinum adsorbed on alumina or silica for the low-temperature water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (H(2)O + CO --〉 H(2) + CO(2)) used for producing H(2). The alkali ion-associated surface OH groups are activated by CO at low temperatures (~100 degrees C) in the presence of atomically dispersed platinum. Both experimental evidence and density functional theory calculations suggest that a partially oxidized Pt-alkali-O(x)(OH)(y) species is the active site for the low-temperature Pt-catalyzed WGS reaction. These findings are useful for the design of highly active and stable WGS catalysts that contain only trace amounts of a precious metal without the need for a reducible oxide support such as ceria.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhai, Yanping -- Pierre, Danny -- Si, Rui -- Deng, Weiling -- Ferrin, Peter -- Nilekar, Anand U -- Peng, Guowen -- Herron, Jeffrey A -- Bell, David C -- Saltsburg, Howard -- Mavrikakis, Manos -- Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Maria -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Sep 24;329(5999):1633-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1192449.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20929844" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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