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Selective CO2 conversion tuned by periodicities in Au8n + 4(TBBT)4n + 8 nanoclusters

Dan Yang1,§, Wei Pei2,§, Yuying Zhang1, Weigang Hu1, Xiao Cai1, Yongnan Sun1, Shuohao Li1, Xinglian Cheng1, Si Zhou2 ( ), Jijun Zhao2, Yan Zhu1, Weiping Ding1, Xu Liu1( )
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Dalian 116024, China

§ Dan Yang and Wei Pei contributed equally to this work.

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The structure-dependent catalytic behavior is one of the most important issues in catalysis science. However, it has not been fully understood how different types of atom-packing structures of heterogeneous catalysts precisely impact the reaction sites and pathways. Here we investigate a periodic series of Au8n + 4(TBBT)4n + 8 nanoclusters with layer-by-layer structural pattern to catalyze CO2 hydrogenation (where n = 3-6 is the number of (001) layers; TBBT = 4-tert-butyl-benzenethiolate). An encouraging evolution of CO2 conversion can be identified: The product selectivity from methanol, formic acid to ethanol can be switched by the structure-dependent deformation from the flattened, perfect, to elongated cuboids in Au8n + 4(TBBT)4n + 8. Through a combined study of experiment and theory, we demonstrate that the variation in structural patterns of catalysts can exclusively tune their adsorption strength with reaction intermediates and further control the CO2 conversion toward the different products.

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Au8n + 4(TBBT)4n + 8nanoclusterperiodicitycatalysisCO2 conversion

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 3,
March 2021
Pages 807-813
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-3117-x
Cite this article:
Yang D, Pei W, Zhang Y, et al. Selective CO2 conversion tuned by periodicities in Au8n + 4(TBBT)4n + 8 nanoclusters. Nano Research, 2021, 14(3): 807-813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3117-x
Topics:
Carbon dioxideCatalystsNanoclustersReaction intermediates

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Received: 12 July 2020
Revised: 15 August 2020
Accepted: 14 September 2020
Published: 01 March 2021
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