Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Hydrogen spillover assisted by oxygenate molecules over nonreducible oxides

  • Mingwu Tan,
  • Yanling Yang,
  • Ying Yang,
  • Jiali Chen,
  • Zhaoxia Zhang,
  • Gang Fu,
  • Jingdong Lin,
  • Shaolong Wan,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Yong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29045-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Spontaneous migration of H-atoms from metal particles to a nonreducible oxide support is generally limited by thermodynamics. Here, small oxygenate molecules are found to act as effective H-carriers to promote this process and lead to much improved hydrodeoxygenation rates on Pt-Fe/SiO2 catalysts.