Nature Communications (May 2021)

Regulating coordination number in atomically dispersed Pt species on defect-rich graphene for n-butane dehydrogenation reaction

  • Xiaowen Chen,
  • Mi Peng,
  • Xiangbin Cai,
  • Yunlei Chen,
  • Zhimin Jia,
  • Yuchen Deng,
  • Bingbao Mei,
  • Zheng Jiang,
  • Dequan Xiao,
  • Xiaodong Wen,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Hongyang Liu,
  • Ding Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22948-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Direct dehydrogenation has been a thematic research area resulting from the energy shortage and petroleum gas upgrading scenario. Here, the authors fabricate fully exposed Pt3 clusters and correlate dehydrogenation activity with average coordination number of Pt-Pt bond.