Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Platinum–copper single atom alloy catalysts with high performance towards glycerol hydrogenolysis

  • Xi Zhang,
  • Guoqing Cui,
  • Haisong Feng,
  • Lifang Chen,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Lirong Zheng,
  • Song Hong,
  • Min Wei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13685-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Selective hydrogenolysis of biomass glycerol to propanediol is a promising route for the production of high-value chemicals but remains a challenge. Here, the authors find a PtCu single atom alloy catalyst exhibits remarkably boosted performance with a turnover frequency value of 2.6 × 103 molglycerol·molPtCu–SAA −1·h−1.