Revealing the thermodynamics of individual catalytic steps based on temperature-dependent single-particle nanocatalysis

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出版日 2019-09-24

DOI 10.1039/C9CP04538D

インパクトファクター 3.676

著者

Tao Chen

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要旨

Due to the intrinsic heterogeneity of nanocatalysis, many underlying catalytic details on nanocatalysts are hidden in ensemble-averaged measurements. Here, the single-molecule approach was adopted to study the temperature-dependent catalytic kinetics and dynamics of individual Pt nanoparticles and then reveal the thermodynamics of individual catalytic steps on Pt nanoparticles. In this way, the temperature-dependent catalytic kinetics (the effective rate constant of the product formation process, the rate constants of the direct/indirect production desorption process and the substrate adsorption equilibrium constants) and thermodynamics (free energy, entropy and enthalpy of substrate adsorption) were obtained systematically at the single particle level. Based on such results, we further obtained the activation energies of the catalytic product formation step and the direct/indirect product desorption steps. Moreover, by analyzing the temperature-dependent surface restructuring rates of individual Pt nanocatalysts, the activation energies of both the catalysis-induced surface restructuring and the spontaneous surface restructuring were obtained for the first time. All these results obtained here deepen our understanding of the catalytic thermodynamics of nanocatalysts.

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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

CiteScore: 5.5

自己引用率: 10.3%

年間論文数: 3036

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