Nature Communications (Nov 2020)
Inverse ZrO2/Cu as a highly efficient methanol synthesis catalyst from CO2 hydrogenation
- Congyi Wu,
- Lili Lin,
- Jinjia Liu,
- Jingpeng Zhang,
- Feng Zhang,
- Tong Zhou,
- Ning Rui,
- Siyu Yao,
- Yuchen Deng,
- Feng Yang,
- Wenqian Xu,
- Jun Luo,
- Yue Zhao,
- Binhang Yan,
- Xiao-Dong Wen,
- José A. Rodriguez,
- Ding Ma
Affiliations
- Congyi Wu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University
- Lili Lin
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University
- Jinjia Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jingpeng Zhang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Feng Zhang
- Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Tong Zhou
- Center for Electron Microscopy, Tianjin University of Technology
- Ning Rui
- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Siyu Yao
- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Yuchen Deng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University
- Feng Yang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University
- Wenqian Xu
- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne
- Jun Luo
- Center for Electron Microscopy, Tianjin University of Technology
- Yue Zhao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University
- Binhang Yan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Xiao-Dong Wen
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- José A. Rodriguez
- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Ding Ma
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19634-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Enhancing the intrinsic activity and space time yield of Cu based heterogeneous methanol synthesis catalysts is one of the major topics in CO2 hydrogenation. Here the authors develop a highly active inverse catalyst composed of fine ZrO2 islands dispersed on metallic Cu nanoparticles.