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Revealing the Activity Distribution of a Single Nanocatalyst by Locating Single Nanobubbles with Super-Resolution
Ting Zhang1,2, Shuping Li2, Ying Du2
1Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry , China University of Geosciences , Wuhan 430074 , China.
Abstract:
It is challenging to uncover the catalytic activity at different locations of a single nanocatalyst for gas-generating reactions in real time. This research uses super-resolution microscopy to localize the center of single nanobubbles and reveal the local activity distribution at several to tens of nanometers accuracy. The distances between the centers of the nanobubbles and the center of the nanoplate usually distribute in a certain range from 0 to 500 nm, with the maximum population exhibiting at ∼200 nm. This research also shows that more nanobubbles appear near the tips of the Pd-Ag nanoplate compared with the edges, which indicates higher activity at the tips. In addition, the relationship between the location, lifetime, and turnover rate of the nanobubbles was also carefully studied. This work presents an effective, high-resolution method to localize the activity distribution of nanocatalysts during gas-generating reactions, such as photocatalytic water splitting, dehydrogenation, and electro-oxidation.
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