Identification of active gold nanoclusters on iron oxide supports for CO oxidation

Herzing, Andrew A., Kiely, Christopher John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5412-0970, Carley, Albert Frederick, Landon, Philip and Hutchings, Graham John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8885-1560 2008. Identification of active gold nanoclusters on iron oxide supports for CO oxidation. Science 321 (5894) , pp. 1331-1335. 10.1126/science.1159639

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Abstract

Gold nanocrystals absorbed on metal oxides have exceptional properties in oxidation catalysis, including the oxidation of carbon monoxide at ambient temperatures, but the identification of the active catalytic gold species among the many present on real catalysts is challenging. We have used aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy to analyze several iron oxide–supported catalyst samples, ranging from those with little or no activity to others with high activities. High catalytic activity for carbon monoxide oxidation is correlated with the presence of bilayer clusters that are ∼0.5 nanometer in diameter and contain only ∼10 gold atoms. The activity of these bilayer clusters is consistent with that demonstrated previously with the use of model catalyst systems.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Research Institutes & Centres > Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) Schools > Chemistry
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry
Publisher:	American Association for the Advancement of Science
ISSN:	0036-8075
Last Modified:	02 Mar 2025 14:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/5984

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