Defect-driven nanostructuring of low-nuclearity Pt-Mo ensembles for continuous gas-phase formic acid dehydrogenation.
Nat Commun
; 14(1): 7518, 2023 Nov 18.
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ABSTRACT
Supported metal clusters comprising of well-tailored low-nuclearity heteroatoms have great potentials in catalysis owing to the maximized exposure of active sites and metal synergy. However, atomically precise design of these architectures is still challenging for the lack of practical approaches. Here, we report a defect-driven nanostructuring strategy through combining defect engineering of nitrogen-doped carbons and sequential metal depositions to prepare a series of Pt and Mo ensembles ranging from single atoms to sub-nanoclusters. When applied in continuous gas-phase decomposition of formic acid, the low-nuclearity ensembles with unique Pt3Mo1N3 configuration deliver high-purity hydrogen at full conversion with unexpected high activity of 0.62 molHCOOH molPt-1 s-1 and remarkable stability, significantly outperforming the previously reported catalysts. The remarkable performance is rationalized by a joint operando dual-beam Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory modeling study, pointing to the Pt-Mo synergy in creating a new reaction path for consecutive HCOOH dissociations.
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