Dramatic effects of gallium promotion on methanol steam reforming Cu-ZnO catalyst for hydrogen production: Formation of 5Å copper clusters from Cu-ZnGaOx

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1231-1244

  Tong, Weiyi ^a,b   West, Adam ^a   Cheung, Kevin ^a   Yu, Kai Man ^a   Tsang, Shik Chi Edman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS   (China)

Author keywords

catalyst; copper clusters; fuel cells; gallium; methanol steam reforming; particle size

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CATALYSTS; COPPER METALLOGRAPHY; COPPER OXIDES; COPRECIPITATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FUEL CELLS; GALLIUM; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL IONS; METHANOL; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE; TRAPPED IONS; ZINC OXIDE;

AC IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COPPER CLUSTER; COPRECIPITATION TECHNIQUE; METAL-SUPPORT INTERACTIONS; METHANOL STEAM REFORMING; STEAM REFORMING OF METHANOL; TEMPERATURE-PROGRAMMED REDUCTION;

STEAM REFORMING;

EID: 84879185321     PISSN: 21555435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cs400011m     Document Type: Article

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