Advanced Science (Oct 2017)
Photothermal Catalyst Engineering: Hydrogenation of Gaseous CO2 with High Activity and Tailored Selectivity
- Jia Jia,
- Hong Wang,
- Zhuole Lu,
- Paul G. O'Brien,
- Mireille Ghoussoub,
- Paul Duchesne,
- Ziqi Zheng,
- Peicheng Li,
- Qiao Qiao,
- Lu Wang,
- Alan Gu,
- Feysal M. Ali,
- Yuchan Dong,
- Qiang Wang,
- Kulbir Kaur Ghuman,
- Thomas Wood,
- Chenxi Qian,
- Yue Shao,
- Chenyue Qiu,
- Miaomiao Ye,
- Yimei Zhu,
- Zheng‐Hong Lu,
- Peng Zhang,
- Amr S. Helmy,
- Chandra Veer Singh,
- Nazir P. Kherani,
- Doug D. Perovic,
- Geoffrey A. Ozin
Affiliations
- Jia Jia
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Hong Wang
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Zhuole Lu
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry University of Toronto 200 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E5 Canada
- Paul G. O'Brien
- Department of Mechanical Engineering Lassonde School of Engineering York University Toronto M3J 1P3 Canada
- Mireille Ghoussoub
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Paul Duchesne
- Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University 6274 Coburg Road, P.O. Box 15000 Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 Canada
- Ziqi Zheng
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Peicheng Li
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Qiao Qiao
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY 11973 USA
- Lu Wang
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Alan Gu
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry University of Toronto 200 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E5 Canada
- Feysal M. Ali
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Yuchan Dong
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Qiang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion Institute of Coal Chemistry The Chinese Academy of Sciences Taiyuan 030001 P. R. China
- Kulbir Kaur Ghuman
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Thomas Wood
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry University of Toronto 200 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E5 Canada
- Chenxi Qian
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Yue Shao
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- Chenyue Qiu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Miaomiao Ye
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Safety and Distribution Technology Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310058 P. R. China
- Yimei Zhu
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY 11973 USA
- Zheng‐Hong Lu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Peng Zhang
- Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University 6274 Coburg Road, P.O. Box 15000 Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 Canada
- Amr S. Helmy
- Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto Ontario M5S 3G4 Canada
- Chandra Veer Singh
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Nazir P. Kherani
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Doug D. Perovic
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Toronto 184 College Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3E4 Canada
- Geoffrey A. Ozin
- Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group Solar Fuels Cluster Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H6 Canada
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201700252
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 10
pp. n/a – n/a
Abstract
Abstract This study has designed and implemented a library of hetero‐nanostructured catalysts, denoted as Pd@Nb2O5, comprised of size‐controlled Pd nanocrystals interfaced with Nb2O5 nanorods. This study also demonstrates that the catalytic activity and selectivity of CO2 reduction to CO and CH4 products can be systematically tailored by varying the size of the Pd nanocrystals supported on the Nb2O5 nanorods. Using large Pd nanocrystals, this study achieves CO and CH4 production rates as high as 0.75 and 0.11 mol h−1 gPd−1, respectively. By contrast, using small Pd nanocrystals, a CO production rate surpassing 18.8 mol h−1 gPd−1 is observed with 99.5% CO selectivity. These performance metrics establish a new milestone in the champion league of catalytic nanomaterials that can enable solar‐powered gas‐phase heterogeneous CO2 reduction. The remarkable control over the catalytic performance of Pd@Nb2O5 is demonstrated to stem from a combination of photothermal, electronic and size effects, which is rationally tunable through nanochemistry.
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