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Fully-exposed Pt clusters stabilized on Sn-decorated nanodiamond/graphene hybrid support for efficient ethylbenzene direct dehydrogenation

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The pursuit of energy conservation and environmental protection has always been a hot topic in the catalytic fields, which is inseparable from the rational designing of efficient catalysts and an in-depth understanding of the catalytic reaction mechanism. In this work, fully-exposed Pt clusters were fabricated on the atomically dispersed Sn decorated nanodiamond/graphene (Sn-ND@G) hybrid support and employed for direct dehydrogenation (DDH) of ethylbenzene (EB) to styrene (ST). The detailed structural characterizations revealed the fully-exposed Pt clusters were stabilized on Sn-ND@G, assisted by the spatial separation of atomically dispersed Sn species. The as-prepared Pt/Sn-ND@G catalyst showed enhanced ST yield (136.2 molEB·molPt−1·h−1 EB conversion rate and 99.7% ST selectivity) and robust long-term stability at 500 °C for the EB DDH reaction, compared with the traditional ND@G supported Pt nanoparticle catalyst (Pt/ND@G). The ST prefers to desorb from the fully-exposed Pt clusters, resulting in the enhanced DDH catalytic performance of the Pt/Sn-ND@G catalyst. The present work paves a new way for designing highly dispersed and stable supported metal catalysts for DDH reactions.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFA1502802), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21961160722, 92145301, U21B2092, 22072162, and 91845201), the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (No. XLYC1907055), Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 2021-MS001), IMR Innovation Fund (No. 2022-PY05), Dalian National Lab for Clean Energy (No. DNL Cooperation Fund 202001), and the Sinopec China. N. W. hereby acknowledges the funding support from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Nos. C6021-14E, N_HKUST624/19, and 16306818). The XAS experiments were conducted in Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Linlin Wang & Ting Sun

  2. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Linlin Wang, Zhimin Jia, Xiaowen Chen, Jiangyong Diao & Hongyang Liu

  3. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering, BIC-ESAT, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Xuetao Qin, Mi Peng & Ding Ma

  4. Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, China

    Xiangbin Cai & Ning Wang

  5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Zhimin Jia, Xiaowen Chen & Hongyang Liu

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Wang, L., Qin, X., Sun, T. et al. Fully-exposed Pt clusters stabilized on Sn-decorated nanodiamond/graphene hybrid support for efficient ethylbenzene direct dehydrogenation. Nano Res. 15, 10029–10036 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4650-6

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