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Title
Functionalised metal-organic frameworks : a novel approach to stabilising single metal atoms
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Abstract
We have investigated the potential of metal-organic frameworks for immobilising single atoms of transition metals using a model system of Pd supported on NH2-MIL-101(Cr). Our transmission electron microscopy and in situ Raman spectroscopy results give evidence for the first time that functionalised metal-organic frameworks may support, isolate and stabilise single atoms of palladium. Using thermal desorption spectroscopy we were able to evaluate the proportion of single Pd atoms. Furthermore, in a combined theoretical-experimental approach, we show that the H-H bonds in a H-2 molecule elongate by over 15% through the formation of a complex with single atoms of Pd. Such deformation would affect any hydrogenation reaction and thus the single atoms supported on metal-organic frameworks may become promising single atom catalysts in future.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of materials chemistry A : materials for energy and sustainability / Royal Society of Chemistry [London] - Cambridge, 2013, currens
Publication
Cambridge : 2017
ISSN
2050-7488 [print]
2050-7496 [online]
DOI
10.1039/C7TA03134C
Volume/pages
5 :30 (2017) , p. 15559-15566
ISI
000406672400013
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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