Nature Communications (May 2020)

Structural changes in noble metal nanoparticles during CO oxidation and their impact on catalyst activity

  • See Wee Chee,
  • Juan Manuel Arce-Ramos,
  • Wenqing Li,
  • Alexander Genest,
  • Utkur Mirsaidov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16027-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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How nanoparticle (NP) catalysts re-structure under reaction conditions and how these changes associate with catalytic activity remains poorly understood. Here, the authors present operando TEM studies of Pd NPs during CO oxidation, which show reversible changes in both structure and activity with temperature.