General and Scalable Synthesis of Mesoporous 2D MZrO2 (M = Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, Fe) Nanocatalysts by Amorphous-to-Crystalline Transformation

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In modern heterogeneous catalysis, it remains highly challenging to create stable, low-cost, mesoporous 2D photo-/electro-catalysts that carry atomically dispersed active sites. In this work, a general shape-preserving amorphous-to-crystalline transformation (ACT) strategy is developed to dope various transition metal (TM) heteroatoms in ZrO2 , which enabled the scalable synthesis of TMs/oxide with a mesoporous 2D structure and rich defects. During the ACT process, the amorphous MZrO2 nanoparticles (M = Fe, Ni, Cu, Co, Mn) are deposited within a confined space created by the NaCl template, and they transform to crystalline 2D ACT-MZrO2 nanosheets in a shape-preserving manner. The interconnected crystalline ACT-MZrO2 nanoparticles thus inherit the same structure as the original MZrO2 precursor. Owing to its rich active sites on the surface and abundant oxygen vacancies (OVs), ACT-CoZrO2 gives superior performance in catalyzing the CO2 -to-syngas conversion as demonstrated by experiments and theoretical calculations. The ACT chemistry opens a general route for the scalable synthesis of advanced catalysts with precise microstructure by reconciliating the control of crystalline morphologies and the dispersion of heteroatoms.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) - (2024) vom: 02. Feb., Seite e2308016

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yan, Jiawei [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Yifei [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Mengyao [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Bixia [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Xiaoxin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhiqi [VerfasserIn]
Zhuang, Zanyong [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Yan [VerfasserIn]

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Amorphous-to-crystalline transformation
Journal Article
Mesoporous 2D materials
Oxygen vacancy
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction
Scalable synthesis

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Date Revised 03.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1002/smll.202308016

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NLM367977931