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Rucheng Duan1,2, Yu Fu1, Zhuocan Li1,2
1State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
Abstract:
Catalysts operating at low temperatures are imperative for the denitrification of flue gases from various non-electric industries. Current catalysts typically exhibit significant activity for the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3 (NH3-SCR) at temperatures above 100 °C. Here, we observed for the first time remarkable room-temperature NH3-SCR activity on the surface of carbon-based catalysts. The oxidation of NO to NO2 by surface C-O-C groups at room temperature serves as a key initial step, triggering a fast SCR reaction. The C-OH groups, as active sites, directly participate in the elementary reaction pathways of the SCR through an H migration process, significantly reducing the energy barrier of the rate-determining step to below 1 eV, thereby enabling fast SCR to occur at room temperature. The room-temperature SCR and its novel reaction mechanism reported in this study would inevitably expand the research boundaries of NO abatement.
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