The most active Cu facet for low-temperature water gas shift reaction

Zhenhua Zhang; Sha-Sha Wang; Rui Song; Tian Cao; Liangfeng Luo; Xuanye Chen; Yuxian Gao; Jiqing Lu; Wei-Xue Li; Weixin Huang

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00620-6

Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

The most active Cu facet for low-temperature water gas shift reaction

Zhenhua Zhang,
Sha-Sha Wang,
Rui Song,
Tian Cao,
Liangfeng Luo,
Xuanye Chen,
Yuxian Gao,
Jiqing Lu,
Wei-Xue Li,
Weixin Huang

Affiliations

Zhenhua Zhang: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Sha-Sha Wang: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rui Song: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Tian Cao: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Liangfeng Luo: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Xuanye Chen: Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University
Yuxian Gao: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Jiqing Lu: Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University
Wei-Xue Li: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Weixin Huang: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00620-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Nanocrystals display a variety of facets with different catalytic activity. Here the authors identify the most active facet of copper nanocrystals relevant to the low-temperature water gas shift reaction and further design zinc oxide-copper nanocubes with exceptionally high catalytic activity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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