Title

Pressure-Dependent Effect Of Hydrogen Adsorption On Structural And Electronic Properties Of Pt/Γ-Al2O3 Nanoparticles

Keywords

hydrogen; nanoparticles; platinum; structure elucidation; X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Abstract

Understanding the interaction of hydrogen with subnanometer platinum nanoparticles (NPs) under industrially relevant conditions is of great importance to heterogeneous catalysis. In this work, we investigate the pressure-dependent changes in hydrogen coverage on size- and shape-selected Pt/γ-Al2O3 NPs by in situ X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) analysis. Difference XANES calculations revealed an increase in the H/Pt ratio from 1.9 to 2.5 upon increasing the hydrogen pressure from 1 to 21 bar at room temperature (1 bar=100 kPa). In addition, extended X-ray absorption fine structure measurements of the local geometrical structure showed changes in Pt - Pt bond length and coordination number, revealing a morphological transformation in the NPs from a 2 D to a 3 D shape under increasing H2 pressure at room temperature. Such shape evolution leads to a decrease in the NP-support contact area and is thus expected to affect the NP stability against coarsening. Copyright © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

ChemCatChem

Volume

6

Issue

1

Number of Pages

348-352

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201300783

Socpus ID

84892156317 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84892156317

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