When Gold Is Not Noble: Nanoscale Gold Catalysts
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A1999Vol. 103(48), pp. 9573–9578
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A. Sánchez, Stéphane Abbet, Ueli Heiz, Wolf‐Dieter Schneider, Hannu Häkkinen, R. N. Barnett, Uzi Landman
Abstract
While inert as bulk material, nanoscale gold particles dispersed on oxide supports exhibit a remarkable catalytic activity. Temperature-programmed reaction studies of the catalyzed combustion of CO on size-selected small monodispersed Aun (n ≤ 20) gold clusters supported on magnesia, and first-principle simulations, reveal the microscopic origins of the observed unusual catalytic activity, with Au8 found to be the smallest catalytically active size. Partial electron transfer from the surface to the gold cluster and oxygen-vacancy F-center defects are shown to play an essential role in the activation of nanosize gold clusters as catalysts for the combustion reaction.
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