Low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation catalysed by regenerable atomically dispersed palladium on alumina

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Peterson, Eric J ^a   DeLaRiva, Andrew T ^a   Lin, Sen ^b   Johnson, Ryan S ^c   Guo, Hua ^c   Miller, Jeffrey T ^d   Kwak, Ja Hun ^e,i   Peden, Charles H F ^e   Kiefer, Boris ^f   Allard, Lawrence F ^g   Ribeiro, Fabio H ^h   Datye, Abhaya K ^a  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f New Mexico State University   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Purdue University   (United States)

ⁱ Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; LANTHANUM; PALLADIUM;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; OXIDE; PALLADIUM; STABILIZATION;

AIR; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; DISPERSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OXIDATION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TURNOVER TIME; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84916621074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5885     Document Type: Article

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