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Hailong Xiong1,2,3, Zehui Dai3, Cenfeng Fu4
1Anhui Engineering Research Center of Carbon Neutrality, The Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Laboratory of Molecular-Based Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, China.
Abstract:
Photothermal catalytic dry reforming of methane (DRM) is a promising process for converting two greenhouse gases into syngas. However, it still suffers from poor reactivity and coke-induced instability. Here, we report a Rh-embedded SrTiO3 with stable interfacial sites (Rhδ+-Ov-Ti) induced by strong electronic metal-support interactions, which enables highly efficient and stable DRM. In situ characterizations and theoretical calculations confirm that these interfacial sites act as intrinsic active centers for the adsorption and activation of CH4 and CO2 molecules via the CH3O* pathway, without coking. Furthermore, the local charge redistribution and oxygen vacancy (Ov) regeneration enable the dynamic evolution of the Rhδ+-Ov-Ti interfacial sites during DRM. Consequently, a syngas yield of 7.6/9.6 mol gRh-1 h-1 for H2/CO production and durability of 100 h were achieved with the Rh/SrTiO3 catalyst under light irradiation. More importantly, this embedding strategy can be universally applied to synthesize other anticoking catalysts for photothermal DRM and other structure-sensitive reactions.
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