P-Tu-BRC-1 Experimental and First Principles Study of CO Oxidation on Supported Single Pt Atoms

Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Ballroom C (Galt House Hotel)
Melanie M, DeBusk, Mina Yoon, Lawrence F. Allard, David Mullins, G. Malcolm Stocks, Xiaofan Yang, Zili Wu, Gabriel M. Veith and Chaitanya K. Narula, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
We report synthesis, characterization, catalytic acitivity of single Pt atoms supported on θ-alumina and present first principle studies of energetically favored pathways for CO oxidation on single supported Pt atoms that do not involve the substrate in the CO oxidation process.

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