Quantitative relationship between support porosity and the stability of pore-confined metal nanoparticles studied on CuZnO/SiO2 methanol synthesis catalysts

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2522-2531

  Prieto, Gonzalo ^a   Shakeri, Mozaffar ^a   De Jong, Krijn P ^a   De Jongh, Petra E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

metal nanoparticles; particle growth; pore morphology; porous materials; sintering; stability; supported catalysts

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICA; SINTERING; STABILITY; SYNTHESIS GAS MANUFACTURE;

DEACTIVATION MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL NANO MATERIALS; FUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES; INTER-PARTICLE SPACING; NANOPARTICLE GROWTHS; NITRATE DECOMPOSITION; PARTICLE GROWTH; PORE MORPHOLOGY;

CATALYST SUPPORTS;

EID: 84896903679     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406119j     Document Type: Article

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