Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

CO oxidation activity of non-reducible oxide-supported mass-selected few-atom Pt single-clusters

  • Atsushi Beniya,
  • Shougo Higashi,
  • Nobuko Ohba,
  • Ryosuke Jinnouchi,
  • Hirohito Hirata,
  • Yoshihide Watanabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15850-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Platinum nanocatalysts play critical roles in CO oxidation. Herein, the authors discover that under-coordinated Pt atoms at the edges of the first cluster layer are rendered cationic by direct contact with the Al2O3 support, which affects the overall CO oxidation activity.