1. Mechanistic Insight into Nanoarchitected Ag/Pr6O11 Catalysts for Efficient CO Oxidation.
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Xinxin Zhang, Shiyang Cheng, Wei Zhang, Cai Zhang, Drewett, Nicholas E., Xiyang Wang, Dong Wang, Seung Jo Yoo, Jin-Gyu Kim, and Weitao Zheng
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SILVER nanoparticles , *SILVER catalysts , *PRASEODYMIUM , *OXIDATION of carbon monoxide , *NANOCOMPOSITE materials , *CATALYTIC activity - Abstract
Ag/Pr6O11 catalysts supported by either Pr6O11 nanorods (Pr6O11-NRs) or nanoparticles (Pr6O11-NPs) were prepared by conventional incipient wetness impregnation. The nanocomposite of Ag/Pr6O11-NRs demonstrated a higher catalytic activity for CO oxidation than Ag/Pr6O11-NPs at lower temperatures. This improved performance may be ascribed to the mesoporous features and resultant oxygen vacancies of the Pr6O11 nanorods support, as well as the large surface area and homogeneous loading of Ag species. As a result, 98.7 and 100% CO conversions were achieved at 210 and 240 °C for Ag/Pr6O11-NRs, while Ag/Pr6O11-NPs require a temperature of 320 °C to obtain the 100% CO conversion rate. These findings reveal that Pr6O11-NRs is the preferable support, comparative to Pr6O11-NPs, for Ag/Pr6O11 catalysts, for CO oxidation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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