O-F-403-10 Highly Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts with PtCu Single Atom Alloys

Friday, June 19, 2015: 11:20 AM
403-405 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Jilei Liu, Felicia Lucci, Terry Haas, E. Charles H. Sykes and Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Tufts University, USA.
The Pt/Cu single atom alloys (SAAs) were studied in both model surfaces and nanoparticles. We demonstrated that the addition of trace amounts of Pt to the Cu nanoparticles significantly improves the hydrogenation activity of the latter without loss of selectivity.

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