Catalyst islanding

Figure 2. Regularly shaped catalyst islands on an adsorptive support. Reprinted with permission from Chem. Eng. Sci., vol. 38, p. 719, D.-Y. Kuan, H. T. Davis, and R. Aris, Effectiveness of Catalytic Archipelagos. I. Regular Arrays of Regular Islands, copyright 1983 [8], Pergamon Press PLC.

The Effect of Sputtered RuCte Overlayers on the Photoelectrochemical Behavior of CdS Electrodes Instead of RuCh co-catalyst islands, the use of overlayers examined to protect CdS against photocorrosion. See also Entry 29 in Table 2 and Ref. 498. 180... 

The formation of a platinum oxide surface layer as given in Eq. (20.6) prevents dissolution or precipitation of platinum according to Eq. (20.5), since dissolution of platinum oxide as shown by Eq. (20.7) is rather slow [14, 15]. Precipitation of Pt + ions by reaction with hydrogen may occur within the membrane, forming an electrically insulated Pt band [16]. Platinum losing electrical contact with the electrode is referred to as catalyst islanding [17]. The electrochemically active platinum surface area decreases because of these mechanisms, resulting in performance... 

The catalysts are prepared by impregnating the support with aqueous salts of molybdenum and the promoter. In acidic solutions, molybdate ions are present largely in the form of heptamers, [Mo2024] , and the resulting surface species are beHeved to be present in islands, perhaps containing only seven Mo ions (100). Before use, the catalyst is treated with H2 and some sulfur-containing compounds, and the surface oxides are converted into the sulfides that are the catalyticaHy active species. 

Following initial reduction at 200 C, photomicrographs showed the development of distinct light-colored islands on the catalyst surface, in addition to the dark (carbon) islands and grey areas previously observed (Figure 8A). 

The efficiency of semiconductor PCs in some reactions (such as dehydrogenation of organics, splitting of HjO and H2S, etc.) can be enhanced by depositing tiny islands of additional catalysts, which facilitate certain reactions stages that may not require illumination. For example, islands of Pt metal are deposited on the surface of the composite photocatalyst in Fig.6 with the aim to facilitate the step of H2 formation. 

For the reduction of NO with propene, the catalyst potential dependence of the apparent activation energies does not show a step change and is much less pronounced than it is for the CO+O2 and NO+CO systems. There is persuasive evidence [20] that the step change is associated with a surface phase transition - the formation or disruption of islands of CO. It is reasonable to assume that this phenomenon cannot occur in the NO+propene case, since there is no reason to expect that large amounts of chemisorbed CO can be present under any conditions. That there should be a difference in this respect between CO+O2/CO+NO on the one hand, and NO+propene on the other hand, is therefore understandable however, the chemical complexity of the adsorbed layer in the NO+-propene precludes any detailed analysis of the Ea(VwR> effect. 

Waszczuk et al., 2001b Tong et al., 2002]. Because Ru is deposited as nanosized Ru islands of monoatomic height, the Ru coverage of Pt could be determined accurately. In that case, the best activity with regard to methanol oxidation was found for a Ru coverage close to 40-50% at 0.3 and 0.5 V vs. RHE. However, the structure of such catalysts and the conditions of smdy are far from those used in DMFCs. Moreover, the surface composition of a bimetallic catalyst likely depends on the method of preparation of the catalyst [Caillard et al., 2006] and on the potential [Blasini et al., 2006]. 

RuO2(110) exemplifies Langmuirian behaviour where the catalyst surface consists of equivalent sites statistically occupied by the reactants. This contrasts markedly with catalytic oxidation at metal surfaces, where oxygen transients, high surface mobility and island structures are dominant. The difference is in the main attributed to differences in surface diffusion barriers at metal and oxide surfaces. 

S. Y Wang, and J. P. Chen et al., Selective Debenzylation in the Presence of Aromatic Chlorine on Pd/C Catalysts Effects of Catalyst Types and Reaction Kinetics , paper presented at 20th Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Meeting, March 21-25, 2004, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA. 

A more detailed picture of the temperature dependence of the growth is given in Figure 2.4, where the island density is plotted as a function of temperature. It can be seen that only in the temperature range from 207 to 288 K the growth is perfectly template controlled and the number of islands matches the number of available nucleation sites. This illustrates the importance of kinetic control for the creation of ordered model catalysts by a template-controlled process. Obviously, there has to be a subtle balance between the adatom mobility on the surface and the density of template sites (traps) to allow a template-controlled growth. We will show more examples of this phenomenon below. 

In situ CO titration experiments have also been conducted on multicomposition systems, that is, inverse model catalyst. Schoiswohl et al. [68] in their studies compared the CO titration reaction on three surfaces clean Rh(l 1 1) surface, Rh (111) surface covered with large 2D V309 islands (mean size >50 nm), and Rh(l 11) surface covered with small 2D V309 islands (meansize<15 nm). Prior to CO titration, the three surfaces were exposed to 10-7 mbar 02 to form a (2 x l)-0 phase at room temperature. In situ STM was used to follow the titration reaction in the presence of 10 x-10 7 m liar CO. CO titration on the clean Rh(l 1 1) surface or the Rh(l 1 1) surface with large V309 islands exhibits similar reaction kinetics. Figure 3.19 shows... 

Within the inverse model catalyst approach, the y/7-V309-Rh(l 11) nanostructures have been used to visualize surface processes in the STM with atomic-level precision [104]. The promoting effect of the V-oxide boundary regions on the oxidation of CO on Rh(l 1 1) has been established by STM and XPS by comparing the reaction on two differently prepared y/7-V309-Rh(l 11) inverse catalyst surfaces, which consist of large and small two-dimensional oxide islands and bare Rh areas in between [105]. A reduction of the V-oxide islands at their perimeter by CO has been observed, which has been suggested to be the reason for the promotion of the CO oxidation near the metal-oxide phase boundary. 

Hou et al. [73] considered small "carbon islands" as the main hydrogen-adsorption sites in an MWNT. The hydrogen-storage capacity of a CNT varies widely and the reason for such a variation is not clear, possibly caused by the impurity such as metal catalysts or amorphous carbon. It is not clear yet how the metallic catalyst particles, which are used during the preparation of nanotube samples, affect the hydrogen-storage capacity of nanotubes. 

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