Dopant Site Engineering on 2D Co3O4 Enables Enhanced Toluene Oxidation in a Wide Temperature Range

Development of cost-effective oxide catalysts holds the key to the removal of toluene, one of the most important volatile organic compounds. However, the catalysts follow varied working mechanisms at different reaction temperatures, posing a challenge to achieving efficient toluene removal over a wide temperature range. Here we report an agitation-assisted molten salt method, which achieves the rational doping on a two-dimensional Co3O4 catalyst and forms two different structures of active sites to enhance catalytic oxidation of toluene in specific temperature intervals, enabling a facile tandem design for working in a wide temperature range. Specifically, Co3O4 is doped with Cu at the octahedral site (Cu-Co3O4) and Zn at the tetrahedral site (Zn-Co3O4) to form CuOh-O-CoTe and ZnTe-O-CoOh structures on the surface, respectively. Mechanistic studies reveal the different working mechanisms of these two active sites toward remarkable performance enhancement at specific temperature intervals, and the improved performance derived from accelerated consumption of intermediates adsorbed on the catalyst surface. Taken together, Cu-Co3O4 and Zn-Co3O4 achieve excellent toluene purification performance over a wide temperature range. This work provides insights into the mechanism-oriented design of active sites at the atomic level.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

Enthalten in:

Environmental science & technology - 57(2023), 35 vom: 05. Sept., Seite 13236-13246

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Rong [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Xianjin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Liqin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhiyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Dandan [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Xiaoliang [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Junji [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Yujie [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2D Co3O4
3FPU23BG52
3G0H8C9362
Cobalt
Cobalt tetraoxide
Journal Article
Mechanism
Metal doping
Molten salt method
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tandem design
Toluene
Toluene oxidation

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Date Completed 06.09.2023

Date Revised 18.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.est.3c03617

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36113780X