1. Reduction of N2O by CO via Mans–van Krevelen Mechanism over Phosphotungstic Acid Supported Single-Atom Catalysts: A Density Functional Theory Study
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Li-Long Zhang, Xue-Mei Chen, and Chun-Guang Liu
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Reaction mechanism ,Surface oxygen ,010405 organic chemistry ,Chemistry ,Inorganic chemistry ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Decomposition ,0104 chemical sciences ,Catalysis ,Inorganic Chemistry ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Adsorption ,Atom ,Density functional theory ,Phosphotungstic acid ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry - Abstract
In general, reduction of N2O by CO is first performed by N2O decomposition over a catalyst surface to release N2 and form an active oxygen species, and subsequently CO is oxidized by the active oxygen species to produce CO2. However, the strong adsorption behavior of CO on the catalyst surface usually inhibits adsorption and decomposition of N2O, which leads to a low activity or poisoning of catalysts. In the present paper, a Mans–van Krevelen (MvK) mechanism has been probed based on a series of phosphotungstic acid (PTA) supported single-atom catalysts (SACs), M1/PTA (M = Fe, Co, Mn, Rh, Ru, Ir, Os, Pt, and Pd). Although the calculated adsorption energy of CO is exceedingly higher than N2O for our studied systems, the adsorbed CO could react with the surface oxygen atom of the PTA support through the MvK mechanism to form an oxygen vacancy on the PTA surface. N2O acts as an oxygen donor to replenish the PTA support and release N2 in the whole reaction process. This proposed reaction mechanism avoids comp...
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- 2019
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