Precise Control of Pt Particle Size for Surface Structure–Reaction Activity Relationship
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Al-Shareef, Reem A.
Harb, Moussab

Saih, Youssef
Ould-Chikh, Samy

Anjum, Dalaver H.
Candy, Jean-Pierre
Basset, Jean-Marie

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Chemical Science ProgramElectron Microscopy
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Lab Consumables & Gases
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2018-09-27Online Publication Date
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The use of surface organometallic chemistry on metal (SOMC/M) allows the controlled and stepwise variation of the platinum particle size in Pt/SiO catalysts. This SOMC/M method is possible thanks to the better affinity of most organometallic compounds with the surface of zerovalent metal particles covered with hydrogen than their support. In this paper, Pt(acac) was used as the organometallic precursor, silica as a support, and then hydrogen to reduce the adsorbed organometallic layer on top of the starting Pt nanoparticle. We partially succeeded in adding one Pt layer with a stepwise particle size increase of around 0.6 nm when going from the first (1G) to the second (2G) refilling run, as obtained from TEM and H chemisorption analysis and then confirmed by DFT calculations. The metal loading could be kept at a very low level (<1-2 wt %), which is relevant for catalytic applications. The particle size distribution remained relatively narrow even after two refilling runs, allowing more precise relationships between particle size and catalytic properties to be established. The TOR (for hydrogenolysis) dramatically decreased, while TOR (for skeletal isomerization) slightly increased with increasing the particles size. It is therefore suggested that hydrogenolysis might preferentially occur on low coordination surface platinum atoms (corners and edges), while isomerization occurs mostly on the facets.Citation
Al-Shareef R, Harb M, Saih Y, Ould-Chikh S, Anjum DH, et al. (2018) Precise Control of Pt Particle Size for Surface Structure–Reaction Activity Relationship. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122: 23451–23459. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06346.Sponsors
This work was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Additional Links
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06346ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06346