Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (8): 1329-1335.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(10)60242-2

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Effect of the Morphology of Pt Nanoparticles of Supported Pt Model Catalysts on CO Oxidation

WANG Jianing, DAI Hongxing, HE Hong*   

  1. Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department, College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • Received:2011-03-22 Revised:2011-04-26 Online:2011-08-05 Published:2014-12-26

Abstract: In order to investigate the influence of particle morphology on the catalytic activity of supported Pt model catalyst, platinum nanoparticles (NPs) with different morphologies were synthesized by a chemical method and loaded onto SiO2 to give well-defined supported catalysts. CO oxidation was used as the probe to investigate the catalytic activities of these Pt/SiO2 model catalysts. X-ray fluorescence, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy characterization demonstrated that the different activities of these Pt/SiO2 catalysts were due to different crystal surfaces, which strongly influenced the adsorption and oxidation of CO on the Pt NPs.

Key words: platinum nanoparticle, morphology effect, structure sensitive reaction, carbon monoxide oxidation