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Role of Surface Oxides on Model Nanocatalysts in Catalytic Activity of CO Oxidation

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Rapid advances in the nanosciences and colloidal chemistry have generated new opportunities in the fields of physical and chemical science, including tuning the size, shape, and composition of noble metals at nanoscale, which have revealed many interesting properties. Studies identifying molecular factors that affect catalytic activity provide the means to control catalytic activity, a significant achievement in catalysis. Several molecular factors, including structural and electronic effects, metal–support interactions, and the presence of a surface oxide layer, have been reported as candidates for improving catalytic activity. Among these factors, the oxide layer on the metal surface is considered to play an important role in determining catalytic activity and there are a growing number of studies in this area. Understanding the chemical reactivity of a metal oxide is a rather complicated issue, requiring significant research to date. We outline here recent experimental work on the role of surface oxide on metal nanoparticles (NPs) that determines the catalytic activity of heterogeneous catalysis, including the effect of oxidation states of nanoparticles on the catalytic activity for model catalysts of single crystals and nanoparticles, with several examples, including Pt, Rh, Ru, and Pd.

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This work was supported by the WCU (World Class University) program (31-2008-000-10055-0 and 2012R1A2A1A01009249) through the National Research Foundation, the Research Center Program (CA1201) of IBS (Institute for Basic Science), and from the Fundamental R&D Program for Core Technology of Materials funded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea.

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Park, J.Y., Qadir, K., Kim, S.M. (2014). Role of Surface Oxides on Model Nanocatalysts in Catalytic Activity of CO Oxidation. In: Park, J. (eds) Current Trends of Surface Science and Catalysis., vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8742-5_7

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