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Gold supported on well-ordered ceria films: nucleation, growth and morphology in CO oxidation reaction

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Structure of gold nanoparticles formed by physical vapor deposition onto thin ceria films was studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Gold preferentially nucleates on point defects present on the terraces of the well-ordered, fully oxidized films to a low density. The nucleation expands to the terrace step edges, providing a large variety of low-coordinated sites. Only at high coverage, the Au particles grow homogeneously on the oxygen-terminated CeO2(111) terraces. The morphology of Au particles was further examined by STM in situ and ex situ at elevated (up to 20 mbar) pressures of O2, CO, and CO + O2 at 300 K. The particles are found to be stable in O2 ambient up to 10 mbar, meanwhile gold sintering emerges at CO pressures above ∼1 mbar. Sintering of the Au particles, which mainly proceeds along the step edges of the CeO2(111) support, is observed in CO + O2 (1:1) mixture at much lower pressure (∼10−3 mbar), thus indicating that the structural stability of the Au/ceria catalysts is intimately connected with its reactivity in the CO oxidation reaction.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). J.L. thanks International Max-Planck Research School “Complex Surfaces in Materials Science” for the fellowship.

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  1. Department of Chemical Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    J.-L. Lu, S. Shaikhutdinov & H.-J. Freund

  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 603, 100080, Beijing, China

    J.-L. Lu & H.-J. Gao

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Lu, JL., Gao, HJ., Shaikhutdinov, S. et al. Gold supported on well-ordered ceria films: nucleation, growth and morphology in CO oxidation reaction. Catal Lett 114, 8–16 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-007-9039-3

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