Enhanced through-plane thermal conductive properties of Ag/rGO nanocomposite

High thermal conductivity of nanocomposite-based polymer matrix is one of the most important keys in developing many heat exchanger instruments. Here, we report a novel nanocomposite system based on silver-coated reduced graphene oxide (Ag/rGO) in silane cross-linked low-density polyethylene (XLPE) matrix with unprecedented through-plane thermal conductivity. Compared to the virgin rGO, Ag/rGO nanocomposite showed 67% higher thermal conductivity due to the Ag nanoparticles (NPs) decoration. The Ag NPs within the nanocomposites are believed to act as a thermal conductor among rGO nanosheets and eventually enhance the heat conduction in 3D manner.     

CO oxidation and oxygen-assisted CO adsorption/desorption on Ag/MnOx catalysts

A series of Ag-doped manganese oxide catalyst were synthesized by the reflux method in an acid medium. The surface structure of the catalysts was characterized by N₂ adsorption, XRD and TEM experiments. The catalysts showed excellent catalytic activity for CO oxidation. The adsorption and oxidation of CO on a 1.0% Ag/MnO_x catalyst between 393 and 493 K were studied by means of single pulse experiments in a TAP reactor. The adsorption of CO was reversible at these temperatures and CO₂ was formed in an oxidation reaction of CO and lattice oxygen. Curve fitting to the experimental TAP response curves of the reactant and product was used to determine the kinetic parameters for the elementary steps. The activation energies were 83 kJ/mol for CO desorption, 31 kJ/mol for CO₂ desorption, and 116 kJ/mol for the surface CO oxidation by lattice oxygen. In addition, the effect of coadsorbed O₂ on CO adsorption was studied by the TAP technique. Below 353 K, there was a sharp increase, by about one order of magnitude, in the rate constant of CO adsorption promoted by the presence of coadsorbed O₂.     

Preparation and characterization of Ag/MnOx/perovskite catalysts for CO oxidation

The spray decomposition method with lanthanum nitrate, manganese nitrate, silver nitrate and citric acid was used to synthesize Ag- and Mn-incorporated perovskites. The resulting samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, BET adsorption measurement, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and temperature-programmed oxygen desorption (O₂-TPD) measurement. The obtained composite Ag/MnO_x/perovskites catalysts exhibit higher activity by a few orders of magnitude at 338 K than that of LaMnO₃. From the O₂-TPD measurement, the high activity of the Ag/MnO_x/perovskites may result from the increase of weak oxygen adsorption below 373 K. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Catalytic oxidation of CO over Ag-Co/alumina catalysts

Low-loading silver cobalt catalysts on alumina for the catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide were synthesized following different preparation methods: the single-step sol-gel method and the impregnation method. A catalyst synthesized by the single-step sol-gel method gave high surface area values. The activities of alumina-supported silver-cobalt catalysts were studied to obtain the effects of the calcination temperature, metal loading, and preparation methods on CO oxidation at low temperature. The catalysts prepared by impregnation metals on the alumina synthesized by the sol-gel method gave the best activity for the CO oxidation. Catalytic activity conversion of (5 wt% Ag-5 wt% Co)/Al 2 O 3 catalysts prepared by the sol-gel-impregnation method reached 100% at 200°C. Increasing silver loading over the catalysts gave rise to more active catalysts. The sol-gel catalysts had poor activity at low temperature.     

CO adsorption and correlation between CO surface coverage and activity/selectivity of preferential CO oxidation over supported Ag catalyst: an in situ FTIR study

In situ IR measurements for CO adsorption and preferential CO oxidation in H₂-rich gases over Ag/SiO₂ catalysts are presented in this paper. CO adsorbed on the Ag/SiO₂ pretreated with oxygen shows a band centered around 2169 cm^–1, which is assigned to CO linearly bonded to Ag⁺ sites. The amount of adsorbed CO on the silver particles (manifested by an IR band at 2169 cm^–1) depends strongly on the CO partial pressure and the temperature. The steady-state coverage on the Ag surface is shown to be significantly below saturation, and the oxidation of CO with surface oxygen species is probably via a non-competitive Langmuir–Hinshelwood mechanism on the silver catalyst which occurs in the high-rate branch on a surface covered with CO below saturation. A low reactant concentration on the Ag surface indicates that the reaction order with respect to Pco is positive, and the selectivity towards CO₂ decreases with the decrease of Pco. On the other hand, the decrease of the selectivity with the reaction temperature also reflects the higher apparent activation energy for H₂ oxidation than that for CO oxidation.     

CO oxidation over promoted Pt catalysts

A study of CO oxidation by O₂ over Pt catalysts, promoted by MnO_x and CoO_x, is described. The activities of Pt/SiO₂, Pt/MnO_x/SiO₂ and Pt/CoO_x/SiO₂ are compared with commercial Pt/Al₂O₃, Pt/Rh/Al₂O₃ and Pt/CeO_x/Al₂O₃ catalysts. Since these catalysts differ in dispersion and weight loading of platinum, the turnover frequencies are also compared. The following order in activity in CO oxidation after a reductive pretreatment is found: Pt/CoO_x/SiO₂ > Pt/MnO_x/SiO₂, Pt/CeO_x/Al₂O₃ > Pt/Al₂O₃, Pt/Rh/Al₂O₃, Pt/SiO₂. Over Pt/CoO_x/SiO₂ CO is already oxidised at room temperature. Possible models to account for the high activity of Pt/CoO_x/SiO₂ in the CO/O₂ reaction are presented and discussed. Partially reduced metal oxides are necessary to increase the activity of the Pt/CoO_x/SiO₂, Pt/MnO_x/SiO₂ or Pt/CeO_x/Al₂O₃ catalysts. It was shown that mild ageing treatments did not affect the activity of the Pt/CoO_x/SiO₂ catalyst in CO oxidation.     

CO3O4/MPS催化氧化NO性能

微乳法制备的介孔二氧化硅（MPS）负载Co3O4构成了Co3O4/MPS催化剂,考察了负载量、焙烧温度等制备条件和反应温度、空速、NO进口浓度、O2体积分数等操作条件对Co3O4/MPS催化氧化NO性能的影响,并对载体及催化剂进行了BET和XRD表征。结果表明：MPS比表面积远大于其它载体,Co3O4呈立方晶型,MPS负载25%的Co3O4在300 ℃下焙烧3 h得到催化剂的晶体颗粒最小,分散性好,具有最佳催化氧化活性和良好的稳定性,在NO进口浓度500 μL/L、O2体积分数10%、空速12 000 h－1的条件下,250 ℃时NO氧化率可达50%～60%（此时可获得最高的NOx吸收效率）,300 ℃氧化率达到80%以上,接近热力学平衡值。     

Low-temperature CO oxidation over CuO/Fe2O3 catalysts

Copper iron composite oxide catalysts have been prepared by co-precipitation method. The catalytic activity and stability of the catalysts on CO oxidation were evaluated by using a microreactor-GC system. The results indicated that the copper iron composite oxide catalysts exhibited obviously high stability and catalytic activity on CO oxidation at low temperature. The effect of the calcination temperature, the molar ratios of copper to iron, the specific surface areas and the particle sizes on the catalytic activity of the catalysts was investigated in this paper.     

Preferential CO oxidation over supported Pt catalysts

Preferential CO oxidation reaction has been carried out at a gas hourly space velocity of 46,129 h^?1 over supported Pt catalysts prepared by an incipient wetness impregnation method. Al2O3, MgO-Al₂O₃ (MgO=30 wt% and 70 wt%) and MgO were employed as supports for the target reaction. 1 wt% Pt/Al₂O₃ catalyst exhibited very high performance (X _CO >90% at 175 ^°C for 100 h) in the reformate gases containing CO₂ under severe conditions. This result is mainly due to the highest Pt dispersion, easier reducibility of PtO _x , and easier electron transfer of metallic Pt. In addition, 1 wt% Pt/Al₂O₃ catalyst was also tested in the reformate gases with both CO₂ and H₂O to evaluate under realistic condition.     

Structure sensitivity in CO oxidation over rhodium

The rates of CO oxidation on the (110) and (111) planes of rhodium have been directly compared using a thermal molecular beam reactor. When the surfaces are largely covered by CO the reaction rate is the same on the two crystal planes. At higher temperatures, where CO desorbs and the surface becomes oxygen covered, the reaction becomes structure sensitive, being markedly faster on the more open (110) plane.     

CO oxidation over alumina supported platinum catalyst

The oxidation of CO over Pt/Al₂O₃ has been studied using combined FTIR andin situ reaction cell. During reaction the stretching frequency of the adsorbed carbonyl species remained constant over a temperature range during which a change in the CO conversion occurred. The range of conversion during which this invariance was observed was considerably greater for used catalyst than for fresh Pt/Al²O³. The formation of islands of CO and the role of these in the overall reaction mechanism is discussed.     

CO oxidation over Au/TiO2 prepared from metal-organic gold complexes

A series of Au/TiO₂ catalysts has been prepared from precursors of various metal-organic gold complexes (Au _n , n = 2–4) and their catalytic activity for CO oxidation studied. The Au/TiO₂ catalyst synthesized from a tetranuclear gold complex shows the best performance for CO oxidation with transmission electron microscopy of this catalyst indicating an average gold particle size of 3.1 nm.     

H2-induced promotion of CO oxidation over unsupported gold

The kinetics and mechanism of the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide in the presence of hydrogen (PrOx) over an unsupported gold powder (mean particle size 20 nm and free of silver) have been investigated using flow fixed bed catalytic testing and diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy coupled to mass spectrometry (operando DRIFTS or DRIFTS-MS). It is shown that the presence of H₂ has a favourable effect on the oxidation of CO, either by strongly accelerating the reaction or by preventing the catalyst deactivation, depending on the conditions used. Variation of the hydrogen partial pressure has allowed us to determine partial reaction orders for both CO oxidation and H₂ oxidation under PrOx conditions. An infrared band at 2113 cm⁻¹, corresponding to on-top CO adsorption on metallic gold, has been observed below 150 °C. In addition, adsorbed hydroxyl groups gradually develop simultaneously to gas-phase water in the course of the reaction at increasing temperatures. The promotional effect of hydrogen is ascribed to highly oxidative H_xO_y intermediates formed from the interaction between H₂ and O₂ on the gold surface.     

Catalytic oxidation of CO over ordered mesoporous platinum

Hexagonal phase mesoporous (H₁Pt) was recently reported to have different catalytic properties compared to conventional platinum catalysts. To further investigate this observation the catalytic activity of H₁Pt/Al₂O₃ for CO oxidation was compared with the activity of a corresponding catalyst prepared from Pt-black (Pt-black/Al₂O₃). The H₁Pt/Al₂O₃ catalyst showed ignition at lower temperatures but extinction at higher temperatures compared to Pt-black/Al₂O₃. These observations were further supported by oxygen step-response experiments at constant temperature, where the H₁Pt/Al₂O₃ catalyst showed ignition at lower oxygen concentrations when starting from a CO poisoned surface and extinction at higher O₂ concentrations when starting from the high-reactive state. Furthermore, adsorption of CO on the catalysts was studied in situ using infrared spectroscopy in absence and presence of oxygen after pre-oxidation and pre-reduction, respectively. At 150 °C the H₁Pt/Al₂O₃ sample showed activity for CO oxidation in the presence of oxygen regardless of pretreatment, whereas Pt-black/Al₂O₃ was inactive due to CO self-poisoning. The differences observed in the low reactive state are suggested to be due to structural differences of the platinum surface in the catalysts resulting in a lower sensitivity of the H₁Pt/Al₂O₃ catalyst towards CO self-poisoning and a higher capacity to activate oxygen, and thus a higher activity for CO oxidation. During the high reactive state, the observed higher sensitivity to the concentration ratio between CO and oxygen, and to the temperature is likely due to less optimal ratio between the sticking coefficients of the reactants on the H₁Pt catalyst and to higher mass-transport limitations in its narrower pores during the initial stage of the extinction.     

过渡金属对Pt/SiC催化剂上CO氧化性能的影响

以SiC为载体、Pt为活性组分、过渡金属Fe、Co和Ni为助剂,采用浸渍法制备CO氧化催化剂。考察浸渍方法、助剂及其负载量、空速和催化剂焙烧温度等对Pt/SiC催化剂性能的影响。结果表明,助剂的加入提高了活性组分Pt在载体表面的分散度,并产生一定的相互作用,从而提高了催化剂活性,其中,铁助剂的助催化效果较好。共浸渍法制备的催化剂的催化活性优于分步浸渍法,Pt-Fe/SiC催化剂制备中焙烧温度500 ℃时,催化剂活性较佳,适量Fe助剂的添加能够显著提高Pt/SiC催化剂的活性。     

Low temperature CO oxidation over Au/TiO2 and Au/SiO2 catalysts

After a high-temperature reduction (HTR) at 773 K, TiO₂-supported Au became very active for CO oxidation at 313 K and was an order of magnitude more active than SiO₂-supported Au, whereas a low-temperature reduction (LTR) at 473 K produced a Au/TiO₂ catalyst with very low activity. A HTR step followed by calcination at 673 K and a LTR step gave the most active Au/TiO₂ catalyst of all, which was 100-fold more active at 313 K than a typical 2% Pd/Al₂O₃ catalyst and was stable above 400 K whereas a sharp decrease in activity occurred with the other Au/TiO₂ (HTR) sample. With a feed of 5% CO, 5% O₂ in He, almost 40% of the CO was converted at 313 K and essentially all the CO was oxidized at 413 K over the best Au/TiO₂ catalyst at a space velocity of 333 h^–1 based on CO + O₂. Half the chloride in the Au precursor was retained in the Au/TiO₂ (LTR) sample whereas only 16% was retained in the other three catalysts; this may be one reason for the low activity of the Au/TiO₂ (LTR) sample. The reaction order on O₂ was approximately 0.4 between 310 and 360 K, while that on CO varied from 0.2 to 0.6. The chemistry associated with this high activity is not yet known but is presently attributed to a synergistic interaction between gold and titania.     

Low temperature oxidation of CO over tin-modified Pt/SiO2 catalysts

Low temperature oxidation of CO over alloy type Sn–Pt/SiO₂ catalysts with different Sn/Pt ratios has been investigated at different CO partial pressure using thermal programmed oxidation (TPO) technique and time on stream (TOS) experiments. The introduction of tin into platinum strongly increased the activity of the catalyst. The activity had a maximum, which depended on both the Sn/Pt (at./at.) ratio and the CO partial pressure. TOS experiments revealed the aging of the Sn–Pt/SiO₂ catalysts. FTIR and Mössbauer spectroscopy has been used to follow compositional and structural changes of Sn–Pt/SiO₂ catalysts during the catalytic run. The results show that the in situ formed, highly mobile “Snⁿ⁺–Pt” ensemble sites are responsible for high activity, while formation of relatively stable SnO_x type surface species are involved in the catalyst deactivation.     

Au/Fe2O3催化剂上CO选择氧化反应性能的研究

采用共沉淀法、沉积-沉淀法和浸渍法制备了1.5%Au/Fe2O3催化剂,考察了不同方法制备的Au/Fe2O3催化剂对富氢气体中CO选择氧化反应性能的影响。结果表明,浸渍法制得的催化剂在40℃~60℃时CO的转化率为100%;共沉淀法与沉积-沉淀法制得的催化剂在80℃以下CO的转化率均为100%;沉积-沉淀法制得的催化剂在100℃时CO的转化率依然高于95%。上述三种催化剂CO氧化反应的选择性均高于40%,且在CO完全转化时选择性在50%以上。     

Structure sensitivity of CO oxidation over model Au/TiO2 2 catalysts

Model catalysts of Au clusters supported on TiO₂ thin films were prepared under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions with average metal cluster sizes that varied from ~2.5 to ~6.0 nm. The reactivities of these Au/TiO₂ catalysts were measured for CO oxidation at a total pressure of 40 Torr in a reactor contiguous to the surface analysis chamber. Catalyst structure and composition were monitored with Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS). The apparent activation energy for the reaction between 350 and 450 K varied from 1.7 to 5 kcal/mol as the Au coverage was increased from 0.25 to 5 monolayers, corresponding to average cluster diameters of 2.5–6.0 nm. The specific rates of reaction ((product molecules) × (surface site)^-1 × s^-1 were dependent on the Au cluster size with a maximum occurring at 3.2 nm suggesting that CO oxidation over Au/TiO₂(001)/Mo(100) is structure sensitive. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.