Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
The active sites of Cu–ZnO catalysts for water gas shift and CO hydrogenation reactions
- Zhenhua Zhang,
- Xuanye Chen,
- Jincan Kang,
- Zongyou Yu,
- Jie Tian,
- Zhongmiao Gong,
- Aiping Jia,
- Rui You,
- Kun Qian,
- Shun He,
- Botao Teng,
- Yi Cui,
- Ye Wang,
- Wenhua Zhang,
- Weixin Huang
Affiliations
- Zhenhua Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Xuanye Chen
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Jincan Kang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
- Zongyou Yu
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Jie Tian
- Engineering and Materials Science Experiment Center, University of Science and Technology of China
- Zhongmiao Gong
- Vacuum Interconnected Nanotech Workstation, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Aiping Jia
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Rui You
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Kun Qian
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Shun He
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
- Botao Teng
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University
- Yi Cui
- Vacuum Interconnected Nanotech Workstation, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ye Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
- Wenhua Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- Weixin Huang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24621-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Identification of active sites of a catalyst is the Holy Grail in heterogeneous catalysis. Here, the authors successfully identify the CuCu(100)- hydroxylated ZnO ensemble and CuCu(611)Zn alloy as the active sites of Cu-ZnO catalysts for water gas shift and CO hydrogenation reactions, respectively.
