Strong metal-support interaction (SMSI) construction is a pivotal strategy to afford thermally robust nanocatalysts in industrial catalysis, but thermally induced reactions (>300 °C) in specific gaseous atmospheres are generally required in traditional procedures. In this work, a photochemistry-driven methodology was demonstrated for SMSI construction under ambient conditions. Encapsulation of Pd nanoparticles with a TiO overlayer, the presence of Ti species, and suppression of CO adsorption were achieved upon UV irradiation. The key lies in the generation of separated photoinduced reductive electrons (e) and oxidative holes (h), which subsequently trigger the formation of Ti species/oxygen vacancies (O) and then interfacial Pd-O-Ti sites, affording a Pd/TiO SMSI with enhanced catalytic hydrogenation efficiency. The as-constructed SMSI layer was reversible, and the photodriven procedure could be extended to Pd/ZnO and Pt/TiO.
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J Phys Chem Lett
January 2025
Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Catalysis, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, People's Republic of China.
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Department of Chemical Engineering, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion (MATEC), Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Guangdong 515063, China.
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School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Green Carbon Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, 34114, Republic of Korea.
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December 2024
Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huzhou, 313001, P. R. China.
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