Issue 37, 2013
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Water–gas shift on gold catalysts: catalyst systems and fundamental studies

Franklin (Feng) Tao*a  and  Zhen Ma*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
E-mail: ftao@nd.edu

b Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
E-mail: zhenma@fudan.edu.cn

Abstract

Since the pioneering finding by Haruta et al. that small gold nanoparticles on reducible supports can be highly active for low-temperature CO oxidation, the synthesis, characterization, and application of supported gold catalysts have attracted much attention. The water–gas shift reaction (WGSR: CO + H2O = CO2 + H2) is important for removing CO and upgrading the purity of H2 for fuel cell applications, ammonia synthesis, and selective hydrogenation processes. In recent years, much attention has been paid to exploration the possibility of using supported gold nanocatalysts for WGSR and understanding the fundamental aspects related to catalyst deactivation mechanisms, nature of active sites, and reaction mechanisms. Here we summarize recent advances in the development of supported gold catalysts for this reaction and fundamental insights that can be gained, and furnish our assessment on the status of research progress.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP51326B
Article type
Perspective
Submitted
28 Mar 2013
Accepted
18 Jun 2013
First published
18 Jun 2013

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 15260-15270

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