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[표지논문] Dopant‐Driven Positive Reinforcement in Ex‐Solution Process: New Strategy to Develop Highly Capable and Durable Catalytic Materials

Title of paper
[표지논문] Dopant‐Driven Positive Reinforcement in Ex‐Solution Process: New Strategy to Develop Highly Capable and Durable Catalytic Materials
Author
[한정우교수 연구실] 엑솔루션 현상 촉진을 통한 고성능 가스센서 개발
Publication in journal
Advanced Materials 32 (2020) 2003983
Publication date
20201119

 

[Abstract]
The ex‐solution phenomenon, a central platform for growing metal nanoparticles on the surface of host oxides in real time with high durability and a fine distribution, has recently been applied to various scientific and industrial fields, such as catalysis, sensing, and renewable energy. However, the high‐temperature processing required for ex‐solutions (>700 °C) limits the applicable material compositions and has hindered advances in this technique. Here, an unprecedented approach is reported for low‐temperature particle ex‐solution on important nanoscale binary oxides. WO3 with a nanosheet structure is selected as the parent oxide, and Ir serves as the active metal species that produces the ex‐solved metallic particles. Importantly, Ir doping facilitates a phase transition in the WO3 bulk lattice, which further promotes Ir ex‐solution at the oxide surface and eventually enables the formation of Ir particles (<3 nm) at temperatures as low as 300 °C. Low‐temperature ex‐solution effectively inhibits the agglomeration of WO3 sheets while maintaining well‐dispersed ex‐solved particles. Furthermore, the Ir‐decorated WO3 sheets show excellent durability and H2S selectivity when used as sensing materials, suggesting that this is a generalizable synthetic strategy for preparing highly robust heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of applications.

 

DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adma.202003983
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202003983