Volume 208, 2018

Looking for the active hydrogen species in a 5 wt% Pt/C catalyst: a challenge for inelastic neutron scattering

Abstract

We looked for the active hydrogen species in a highly dispersed and very homogeneous 5 wt% Pt/C industrial catalyst (Pt particle mean diameter of 2.0 ± 0.5 nm) for hydrogenation reactions, by coupling H2 adsorption measurements with Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS). Taking advantage of the enormous progress undergone by INS instruments, we succeeded in collecting INS spectra of unprecedented quality that allowed us to: (1) demonstrate that the Pt nanoparticles are mainly located at the regular edges of the sp2 graphitic domains on the activated carbon; (2) validate that most of the H2 physisorbed on the carbon is side-on adsorbed; (3) detect for the first time H2 molecules adsorbed on hydride-covered Pt nanoparticles; (4) observe Pt–hydrides (on the Pt/C catalyst with the lowest Pt loading among those investigated by INS so far) and (5) provide evidence for the occurrence of spillover of atomic hydrogen from the Pt surface to unsaturated reactive sites located at the irregular borders of the sp2 domains on the activated carbon.

Graphical abstract: Looking for the active hydrogen species in a 5 wt% Pt/C catalyst: a challenge for inelastic neutron scattering

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Dec 2017
Accepted
05 Jan 2018
First published
05 Jan 2018

Faraday Discuss., 2018,208, 227-242

Looking for the active hydrogen species in a 5 wt% Pt/C catalyst: a challenge for inelastic neutron scattering

M. Carosso, A. Lazzarini, A. Piovano, R. Pellegrini, S. Morandi, M. Manzoli, J. G. Vitillo, M. J. Ruiz, C. Lamberti and E. Groppo, Faraday Discuss., 2018, 208, 227 DOI: 10.1039/C7FD00214A

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