Oxo dicopper anchored on carbon nitride for selective oxidation of methane

Pengfei Xie; Jing Ding; Zihao Yao; Tiancheng Pu; Peng Zhang; Zhennan Huang; Canhui Wang; Junlei Zhang; Noah Zecher-Freeman; Han Zong; Dashui Yuan; Shengwei Deng; Reza Shahbazian-Yassar; Chao Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28987-1

Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Oxo dicopper anchored on carbon nitride for selective oxidation of methane

Pengfei Xie,
Jing Ding,
Zihao Yao,
Tiancheng Pu,
Peng Zhang,
Zhennan Huang,
Canhui Wang,
Junlei Zhang,
Noah Zecher-Freeman,
Han Zong,
Dashui Yuan,
Shengwei Deng,
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar,
Chao Wang

Affiliations

Pengfei Xie: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Jing Ding: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Zihao Yao: Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology
Tiancheng Pu: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Peng Zhang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University
Zhennan Huang: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois
Canhui Wang: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Junlei Zhang: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Noah Zecher-Freeman: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Han Zong: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Dashui Yuan: State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University
Shengwei Deng: Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois
Chao Wang: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28987-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Selective conversion of methane into value-added chemicals is a promising approach for utilization of hydrocarbon sources. Here the authors develop dimeric copper centers supported on graphitic carbon nitride (denoted as Cu2@C3N4) with >10% conversion and >98% selectivity toward methyl oxygenates in both thermo- and photo- catalytic reactions.

Published in Nature Communications

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