Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Remarkable active-site dependent H2O promoting effect in CO oxidation

  • Shu Zhao,
  • Fang Chen,
  • Sibin Duan,
  • Bin Shao,
  • Tianbo Li,
  • Hailian Tang,
  • Qingquan Lin,
  • Junying Zhang,
  • Lin Li,
  • Jiahui Huang,
  • Nicolas Bion,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Hui Sun,
  • Ai-Qin Wang,
  • Masatake Haruta,
  • Botao Qiao,
  • Jun Li,
  • Jingyue Liu,
  • Tao Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11871-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The issue that whether single-atom sites possess similar catalytic properties to the interfacial sites of nanocatalysts remains unresolved. Here, the authors demonstrate a large H2O promotional effect on CO oxidation over Au single-atom sites due to their unique local atomic structure and electronic properties.