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MoS2 monolayer catalyst doped with isolated Co atoms for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction
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Liu, Guoliang, Robertson, Alex W., Li, Molly Meng-Jung, Kuo, Winson C. H., Darby, Matthew T., Muhieddine, Mohamad H., Lin, Yung-Chang, Suenaga, Kazu, Stamatakis, Michail, Warner, Jamie H. and Tsang, Shik Chi Edman (2017) MoS2 monolayer catalyst doped with isolated Co atoms for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction. Nature Chemistry, 9 (8). pp. 810-816. doi:10.1038/nchem.2740 ISSN 1755-4330.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2740
Abstract
The conversion of oxygen-rich biomass into hydrocarbon fuels requires efficient hydrodeoxygenation catalysts during the upgrading process. However, traditionally prepared CoMoS2 catalysts, although efficient for hydrodesulfurization, are not appropriate due to their poor activity, sulfur loss and rapid deactivation at elevated temperature. Here, we report the synthesis of MoS2 monolayer sheets decorated with isolated Co atoms that bond covalently to sulfur vacancies on the basal planes that, when compared with conventionally prepared samples, exhibit superior activity, selectivity and stability for the hydrodeoxygenation of 4-methylphenol to toluene. This higher activity allows the reaction temperature to be reduced from the typically used 300 °C to 180 °C and thus allows the catalysis to proceed without sulfur loss and deactivation. Experimental analysis and density functional theory calculations reveal a large number of sites at the interface between the Co and Mo atoms on the MoS2 basal surface and we ascribe the higher activity to the presence of sulfur vacancies that are created local to the observed Co–S–Mo interfacial sites.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Chemistry | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1755-4330 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2017 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 9 | ||||||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 810-816 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/nchem.2740 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||||
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