Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Surface oxygenation of multicomponent nanoparticles toward active and stable oxidation catalysts

  • Shiyao Shan,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yazan Maswadeh,
  • Casey O’Brien,
  • Haval Kareem,
  • Dat T. Tran,
  • Ivan C. Lee,
  • Zhi-Peng Wu,
  • Shan Wang,
  • Shan Yan,
  • Hannah Cronk,
  • Derrick Mott,
  • Lefu Yang,
  • Jin Luo,
  • Valeri Petkov,
  • Chuan-Jian Zhong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18017-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Traditional approach to oxidation catalysts relies on metal/oxide supported peripheral interfacial oxygen activity. Here the authors show surface oxygenation of platinum-alloyed multicomponent nanoparticles, and reveals irregular oscillatory kinetics associated with the surface oxygenated sites.