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Activating low-temperature diesel oxidation by single-atom Pt on TiO2 nanowire array

  • Son Hoang
  • , Yanbing Guo
  • , Andrew J. Binder
  • , Wenxiang Tang
  • , Sibo Wang
  • , Jingyue (Jimmy) Liu
  • , Tran D. Huan
  • , Xingxu Lu
  • , Yu Wang
  • , Yong Ding
  • , Eleni A. Kyriakidou
  • , Ji Yang
  • , Todd J. Toops
  • , Thomas J. Pauly
  • , Rampi Ramprasad
  • , Pu Xian Gao
  • University of Connecticut
  • Central China Normal University
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Arizona State University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Umicore Autocat USA Inc.

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Abstract

Supported metal single atom catalysts (SACs) present an emerging class of low-temperature catalysts with high reactivity and selectivity, which, however, face challenges on both durability and practicality. Herein, we report a single-atom Pt catalyst that is strongly anchored on a robust nanowire forest of mesoporous rutile titania grown on the channeled walls of full-size cordierite honeycombs. This Pt SAC exhibits remarkable activity for oxidation of CO and hydrocarbons with 90% conversion at temperatures as low as ~160 oC under simulated diesel exhaust conditions while using 5 times less Pt-group metals than a commercial oxidation catalyst. Such an excellent low-temperature performance is sustained over hydrothermal aging and sulfation as a result of highly dispersed and isolated active single Pt ions bonded at the Ti vacancy sites with 5 or 6 oxygen ions on titania nanowire surfaces.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1062
JournalNature Communications
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2020

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