Publication Date:
2014-11-29
Description:
We report that the addition of alkali ions (sodium or potassium) to gold on KLTL-zeolite and mesoporous MCM-41 silica stabilizes mononuclear gold in Au-O(OH)x-(Na or K) ensembles. This single-site gold species is active for the low-temperature (〈200 degrees C) water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. Unexpectedly, gold is thus similar to platinum in creating -O linkages with more than eight alkali ions and establishing an active site on various supports. The intrinsic activity of the single-site gold species is the same on irreducible supports as on reducible ceria, iron oxide, and titania supports, apparently all sharing a common, similarly structured gold active site. This finding paves the way for using earth-abundant supports to disperse and stabilize precious metal atoms with alkali additives for the WGS and potentially other fuel-processing reactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yang, Ming -- Li, Sha -- Wang, Yuan -- Herron, Jeffrey A -- Xu, Ye -- Allard, Lawrence F -- Lee, Sungsik -- Huang, Jun -- Mavrikakis, Manos -- Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Maria -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Dec 19;346(6216):1498-501. doi: 10.1126/science.1260526. Epub 2014 Nov 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, MA 02155, USA. ; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA. ; Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. ; Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. ; X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA. ; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. ; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, MA 02155, USA. maria.flytzani-stephanopoulos@tufts.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25431492" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
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