Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Boosting the catalysis of gold by O2 activation at Au-SiO2 interface

  • Yunlai Zhang,
  • Junying Zhang,
  • Bingsen Zhang,
  • Rui Si,
  • Bing Han,
  • Feng Hong,
  • Yiming Niu,
  • Li Sun,
  • Lin Li,
  • Botao Qiao,
  • Keju Sun,
  • Jiahui Huang,
  • Masatake Haruta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14241-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The development of sintering resistant supported Au catalysts with high activity still remains a challenge. Here the authors construct a Au-SiO2 interface by depositing SiO2 thin layer onto Au/TiO2 catalyst which shows very high activity in CO oxidation even after calcination at 800 °C.