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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Kelly Kousi, Dr Dragos Neagu, Dr Leonidas Bekris, Dr Evangelos Papaioannou, Professor Ian Metcalfe
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© 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, WeinheimParticles dispersed on the surface of oxide supports have enabled a wealth of applications in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, and heterogeneous catalysis. Dispersing nanoparticles within the bulk of oxides is, however, synthetically much more challenging and therefore less explored, but could open new dimensions to control material properties analogous to substitutional doping of ions in crystal lattices. Here we demonstrate such a concept allowing extensive, controlled growth of metallic nanoparticles, at nanoscale proximity, within a perovskite oxide lattice as well as on its surface. By employing operando techniques, we show that in the emergent nanostructure, the endogenous nanoparticles and the perovskite lattice become reciprocally strained and seamlessly connected, enabling enhanced oxygen exchange. Additionally, even deeply embedded nanoparticles can reversibly exchange oxygen with a methane stream, driving its redox conversion to syngas with remarkable selectivity and long term cyclability while surface particles are present. These results not only exemplify the means to create extensive, self-strained nanoarchitectures with enhanced oxygen transport and storage capabilities, but also demonstrate that deeply submerged, redox-active nanoparticles could be entirely accessible to reaction environments, driving redox transformations and thus offering intriguing new alternatives to design materials underpinning several energy conversion technologies.
Author(s): Kousi K, Neagu D, Bekris L, Papaioannou EI, Metcalfe IS
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Year: 2020
Volume: 59
Issue: 6
Pages: 2510-2519
Print publication date: 27/01/2020
Online publication date: 05/12/2019
Acceptance date: 05/12/2019
Date deposited: 27/01/2020
ISSN (print): 1433-7851
ISSN (electronic): 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201915140
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201915140
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