Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Origin of synergistic effects in bicomponent cobalt oxide-platinum catalysts for selective hydrogenation reaction

  • Jiankang Zhang,
  • Zhe Gao,
  • Sen Wang,
  • Guofu Wang,
  • Xiaofeng Gao,
  • Baiyan Zhang,
  • Shuangfeng Xing,
  • Shichao Zhao,
  • Yong Qin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11970-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The development of catalysts with high activity and selectivity for hydrogenation remains a challenge. Here the authors report cobalt oxide-platinum catalysts with increased oxygen vacancy resulting from the promoted hydrogen spillover with platinum-oxygen vacancies as active sites.