Low Temperature CO Oxidation on Ruthenium Oxide Thin Films at Near-Atmospheric Pressures

Ruthenium model catalysts in the form of thin ruthenium oxide films grown on Ru(0001) were studied in the CO oxidation reaction at near-atmospheric pressures. The surfaces were prepared under vacuum conditions prior to the reactivity measurements carried out in a circulating flow reactor using gas c...

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Published in:Catalysis letters 2012-06, Vol.142 (6), p.657-663
Main Authors: Martynova, Y., Yang, B., Yu, X., Boscoboinik, J. A., Shaikhutdinov, S., Freund, H.-J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric pressure
Catalysis
Catalytic activity
Chemical properties
Chemistry
Chemistry and Materials Science
Exact sciences and technology
Film thickness
Gas chromatography
General and physical chemistry
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Low temperature
Monomolecular films
Organometallic Chemistry
Oxidation
Oxidation-reduction reaction
Oxide coatings
Oxides
Oxygen
Physical Chemistry
Ruthenium
Ruthenium oxide
Theory of reactions, general kinetics. Catalysis. Nomenclature, chemical documentation, computer chemistry
Thin films
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Summary:Ruthenium model catalysts in the form of thin ruthenium oxide films grown on Ru(0001) were studied in the CO oxidation reaction at near-atmospheric pressures. The surfaces were prepared under vacuum conditions prior to the reactivity measurements carried out in a circulating flow reactor using gas chromatography. The films possessing oxygen in amounts equivalent to 1–4 monolayers (MLE) on Ru(0001) as determined by electron spectroscopy, exposed both the oxidic (RuO 2 (110)-like) and O/Ru(0001) surfaces. In addition, one-dimensional oxide structures were observed by scanning tunneling microscopy, which are tentatively assigned to the intermediate state for a crystalline ruthenium oxide thin film that covered the entire surface at higher oxygen coverages. At low temperatures studied (400–470 K), the reaction sets in only in the presence of oxidic structures, i.e. when the oxygen coverage, on average, exceeds 1 MLE. The reaction rate slightly increases with increasing the nominal film thickness up to 7 MLE, reflecting primarily the lateral growth of oxide phases. The disordered oxide films showed even higher reactivity. The results suggest that surface ordering and oxide film thickness are not critical for the superior catalytic activity of ruthenium oxides in this reaction. Graphical Abstract
ISSN:1011-372X
1572-879X
DOI:10.1007/s10562-012-0823-3