Gold catalysts containing interstitial carbon atoms boost hydrogenation activity

Yafei Sun; Yueqiang Cao; Lili Wang; Xiaotong Mu; Qingfei Zhao; Rui Si; Xiaojuan Zhu; Shangjun Chen; Bingsen Zhang; De Chen; Ying Wan

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18322-x

Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Gold catalysts containing interstitial carbon atoms boost hydrogenation activity

Yafei Sun,
Yueqiang Cao,
Lili Wang,
Xiaotong Mu,
Qingfei Zhao,
Rui Si,
Xiaojuan Zhu,
Shangjun Chen,
Bingsen Zhang,
De Chen,
Ying Wan

Affiliations

Yafei Sun: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University
Yueqiang Cao: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
Lili Wang: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University
Xiaotong Mu: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University
Qingfei Zhao: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University
Rui Si: Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaojuan Zhu: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University
Shangjun Chen: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University
Bingsen Zhang: Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
De Chen: Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ying Wan: Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, and Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18322-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Gold is among the least active metals toward molecules at a solid-liquid or solid-gas interface. Here the authors demonstrate that the gold nanocatalysts with d electron gain due to C occupying interstitial sites in its lattice boost catalytic hydrogenation.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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