Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Taming interfacial electronic properties of platinum nanoparticles on vacancy-abundant boron nitride nanosheets for enhanced catalysis

  • Wenshuai Zhu,
  • Zili Wu,
  • Guo Shiou Foo,
  • Xiang Gao,
  • Mingxia Zhou,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Gabriel M. Veith,
  • Peiwen Wu,
  • Katie L. Browning,
  • Ho Nyung Lee,
  • Huaming Li,
  • Sheng Dai,
  • Huiyuan Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15291
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Tuning electronic properties of metallic catalysts is a useful way to improve their activity, however control over metal-support interactions is still challenging. Here the authors report a vacancy-induced interfacial electronic effect for Pt assembled on vacancy-abundanth-BN nanosheets leading to superior CO oxidation catalysis.