Nature Communications (May 2022)

Atomic overlayer of permeable microporous cuprous oxide on palladium promotes hydrogenation catalysis

  • Kunlong Liu,
  • Lizhi Jiang,
  • Wugen Huang,
  • Guozhen Zhu,
  • Yue-Jiao Zhang,
  • Chaofa Xu,
  • Ruixuan Qin,
  • Pengxin Liu,
  • Chengyi Hu,
  • Jingjuan Wang,
  • Jian-Feng Li,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Gang Fu,
  • Nanfeng Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30327-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It remains a challenge to fabricate metal catalysts with interfacial active sites distributed on the whole two-dimensional (2D) surface of metal nanoparticles. Here the authors demonstrate that the overgrowth of atomic-thick porous Cu2O on Pd readily creates an unprecedented 2D catalytically active metal-support interface with significantly enhanced catalysis toward the semi-hydrogenation of alkynes.