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The different reaction mechanisms of ammonia oxidation reaction on Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 with various Pt states Mengmeng Sun, Jingying Liu, Chang Song, Yoshito Ogata, Hanbing Rao, Xiao-Qing Zhao, Haidi Xu, and Yao-Qiang Chen ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b02128 • Publication Date (Web): 10 Jun 2019 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 11, 2019

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The different reaction mechanisms of ammonia oxidation reaction on Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 with various Pt states Mengmeng Suna,b* Jingying Liuc Chang Songd Yoshito Ogatae Hanbing Raoa Xiaoqing Zhaoa Haidi Xub* YaoQiang Chenb a College of Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, China b Institute of New Energy and Low-Carbon Technology, Sichuan University, China c College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China. d Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University, Japan e Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan *Corresponding authors. E-mail: [email protected] (M. Sun) E-mail: [email protected] (H. Xu) Postal address: No.46 Xinkang Road, Yaan, 625014

Abstract: NH3 emissions were limited strictly due to the threat for human health and sustainable development. Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 were prepared by impregnation method. Differences in surface chemical states, reduction ability, acid properties, morphological properties, reaction mechanisms and ammonia oxidation activity were studied. It indicated Pt species states were affected by different metal-support interaction. The homogeneously dispersed Pt species over Pt/Al2O3 exposed Pt(111) because of weak metal-support interaction, there even existed obvious interface between Pt and Al2O3. While obscure even overlapped interface was observed over Pt/CeZrO2, resulting in forming PtO due to the oxygen migration from CeZrO2 to Pt species (confirmed by CO-FTIR, the cycled H2-TPR and TEM results). It was noteworthy that different reaction mechanisms were induced by different states of Pt species, NH was the key intermediate species for ammonia oxidation reaction over Pt/Al2O3, but two kinds of intermediates, N2H4 and HNO, were observed for Pt/CeZrO2. It consequently resulted in the obvious distinction of NH3-SCO catalytic performance, the light-off temperatures of NH3 over Pt/Al2O3

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and Pt/CeZrO2 were 231 °C and 275 °C, respectively, while the maximum N2 selectivity (65 %) was obtained over Pt/CeZrO2, obviously better than that over Pt/Al2O3. Keywords: Platinum, Ammonia oxidation reaction, Reaction mechanism, Support material, Interface

1. Introduction Nitrogen oxide from the vehicle exhaust was seriously harmful to human health. Extremely low emission limit of NOx was required to meet stricter and stricter regulations.1,2 The slipping NOx was removed usually by catalytic reduction reaction with ammonia as reducing agent.3 Large amounts of reducing agent was used to enhance the conversion of NOx, which consequently resulted in leaking NH3 into the air.4 NH3 had become an important reason of threatening human health and sustainable development, thus it was necessary to prevent the unreacted-NH3 from slipping.5 NH3 could react with O2 to effectively cope with the NH3 release.6,7 The desired product was N2, but the byproducts N2O and NO were also feasible.8 Thus the ideal selective catalytic oxidation of NH3 (NH3-SCO) catalysts should possess both high activity and selectivity towards N2 in low temperatures. The noble metals Pt, Pd and Rh presented good ammonia oxidation activity below 300 °C, especially Pt.9-11 But extremely low N2 selectivity was obtained by Pt/Al2O3 due to the high level by-produced N2O and NO. However, the influence factors of high activity and selectivity have not been investigated clearly. It was well known that Pt states could be modified efficiently by the support material due to the metal-support interaction, which led to different catalytic performance.12-14 However, it was not clear whether the different Pt states had an effect on the NH3-SCO catalytic performance.


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The reaction mechanism should be investigated to understand the effect of different Pt states on catalytic performance clearly. And some scientific work was done to explore the reaction mechanism of ammonia oxidation. For Pt catalysts, NH mechanism was proposed mostly. Mieher and Ho15 studied the co-adsorption of oxygen and ammonia over Pt(111). The intermediate species NH2, NH and OH were identified. They thought that oxygen was dissociated firstly and then ammonia was stripped by the oxygen atoms. As followed, the nitrogen atoms were reacted with oxygen to form NO. Moreover, the reaction mechanisms on Pt(100) and Pt(111) surfaces were also studied through DFT simulations.16,17 The result also proved NH mechanism, in which NH3 was dehydrogenated progressively to form N atoms and the resulting N atoms were converted to N2, NO and N2O. However, ammonia oxidation reaction mechanism over the supported Pt catalysts had been seldom investigated due to the complexity of the supported catalysts. And Pt states could be modified through the different metal-support interaction, which might lead to different reaction mechanisms.18 In this work, different support materials Al2O3 and CeZrO2 were used to modify the Pt states and displayed different catalytic performance of ammonia oxidation reaction, and the reaction mechanisms were further investigated over different Pt states, which have not been studied on the supported catalysts. It would provide deeper understand for the relationship of Pt species states and reaction mechanism, which is useful to obtain an excellent catalyst for ammonia oxidation reaction.

2. Experimental 2.1. Synthesis of Ce0.9Zr0.1O2 material



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Firstly, Ce(NO3)3∙6H2O and ZrO(NO3)2 as precursors were dissolved to prepare Ce0.9Zr0.1O2 material. After that, ammonia water solution was added into the salt solution during stirring process and kept pH approximately 10. Then the clean precipitate was obtained by washing and filtering. The final Ce0.9Zr0.1O2 material with the mass ratio of CeO2/ZrO2 9:1 was gained after dried in the oven at 120 °C and calcined in the muffle oven at 600 °C for 3 h. The final Ce0.9Zr0.1O2 material was referred to as CeZrO2.

2.2 Catalysts preparation At the first, an aqueous solution of Pt(NO3)2 was impregnated on CeZrO2 (114 m2/g) support material (Pt with 1.0 wt%). The sample powder was obtained by drying in the oven at 120 °C and calcining for 3 h in the muffle oven at 550 °C. After that, the right amount of water was added into the powders to gain slurry. The 160 g/L monolithic catalyst was obtained by coating the slurry on 2.2 ml honeycomb cordierite and calcined for 3 h in the muffle oven at 550 °C, which was called as Pt/CeZrO2. The monolithic catalyst Pt/Al2O3 was prepared with the same method. The Al2O3 (129 m2/g) material was supplied by Sinocat Environmental Technology Co., Ltd..

2.3 Catalytic performance measurements The quartz-glass reactor was vertically installed in a cylindrical furnace. And used a thermocouple to control the temperature of the furnace, which was put in a middle place between the furnace and reactor. The monolithic catalyst was placed in the constant temperature zone of the reactor. In top of the catalyst, another thermocouple was used to display the temperature of the catalyst. Before activity


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performance, the sample was activated for 1 h under the simulated gases of 200 ppm NH3, 8% O2, 5% H2O and N2 at 400 °C. The catalytic performance was tested in 100,000 h-1 space velocity as a decrease temperature. The tailpipe was connected to a FT-IR (Antaris IGS-6700) to get the gas compositions.

2.4 Characterization of catalysts Before O2-TPD measurement，the 0.10 g weigh sample was activated for 1 h under He flowing. After that, cooling the temperature from 400 °C to 100 °C. Then adsorbed O2 until saturation, and blowed the unnecessary O2 by He. The O2 desorption peak was tested by a thermal conductivity detector (TCD) with the 10 °C·min-1 rate to 800 °C under He. Before H2-TPR experiment, the 0.10 g weigh sample was activated for 1 h under N2 flowing. Afterwards, cooling the temperature from 400 °C to room temperature, the sample was deoxidized under reduction gases 5 % H2/N2 with the 8 °C·min-1 rate of elevated temperature to 700 °C using a thermal conductivity detector (TCD). The cycled H2-TPR was measured with the same rate of elevated temperature to 400 °C, and then the temperature was cooled to test again. CO-FTIR spectra was collected with FTIR spectrometer (Thermo Nicolet 6700). The catalyst pretreatment for 30 min at 400 °C was made under N2 in the cell, then background spectrum was recorded at room temperature. After that, CO/N2 (1 vol%) was adsorbed at 30 °C until saturation, and tested adsorption result after blowing excess CO using N2 (99.999%). CO-FTIR spectra was obtained by scanned 100 times. The CO-FTIR of both samples was also obtained after pretreated by NH3 reduction and retreated by N2 after NH3 reduction, respectively. To obtain the Pt species state in



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reaction process, CO-FTIR was also tested as the above steps after the sample was treated for 30 min by the simulated gases of 200 ppm NH3, 8% O2 and N2 at 300 °C. Before TEM (Tecnai G2 F20 S-TWIN) measurement, the sample was activated for 30 min by the simulated gases of 200 ppm NH3, 10% O2, 5% H2O and N2 at 400 °C. An appropriate amount of sample was added into the ethanol aqueous and dispersed in a centrifugal machine. The sample was measured with a scanning mode and the accelerating voltage was 200 kV. In order to avoid the CO adsorption on the CeZrO2 material, the method of CO chemisorption measurement was used as the reference.19,20 Before CO adsorption, 0.15 g sample was reduced for 30 min by H2 at 300 °C. Then the temperature down to 30 °C, the catalyst was oxidized for 10 min by O2, and adsorbed CO2 for 10min. After that, H2 reduction was made for 30min. Then Pt dispersion was tested by CO-pulse chemisorption. The in situ adsorption-desorption of NH3 was investigated using an FTIR (Thermo Nicolet 6700) spectrometer. At the first, the sample was activated for 40 min with N2, then the temperature was dropped from 400 °C down to 80 °C. And NH3 (200 ppm) was adsorbed until adsorption capacity saturation. Afterwards, the desorption spectra was collected in 80-500 °C. The saturated NH3 and O2 reaction process was also monitored. Catalyst was activated for 40 min in N2, then dropped the temperature form 400 °C to 250 °C. After that, adsorbed NH3 until the maximun adsorption capacity, then measured the reaction process when O2 was inlet. The spectra was also obtained by subtracting the backgrounds. Furthermore, the in situ NH3 and O2 reaction was also investigated with the same instrument. Firstly, activated catalyst by 200 ppm NH3, 8% O2 and N2. Secondly, the temperature was


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dropped from 400 °C to 80 °C under N2. Then the in situ reaction spectra was measured under the the simulated gases in 80 °C-400 °C.

3. Results and discussions 3.1 Catalytic activity

Fig.1 the conversion of NH3 (a); the selectivity of N2 (b); N2O formation (c) and NOx formation(d).

The NH3 conversion, N2 selectivity, N2O and NOx formation results were shown in Fig.1. For Pt/CeZrO2, T50 and T90 of NH3 were 275 °C and 307 °C, respectively. However, Pt/Al2O3 presented



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much better activity than Pt/CeZrO2 in terms of T50 and T90 of NH3 (231 °C and 247 °C), which was an significant improvement for ammonia oxidation reaction. Furthermore, the kinetic analysis results with determination coefficient (R2) above 0.98 were showed in Fig.2 and Table 1. The TOF value was 0.12 s-1 for Pt/Al2O3, which was significantly larger than that for Pt/CeZrO2 (0.0077 s-1) And the rate values of Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 were 6.3×10-6 mol/g∙s and 4.0×10-7 mol/g∙s, respectively. In addition, the Ea value of Pt/Al2O3 was 211.7 kJ/mol, which was only half of that over Pt/CeZrO2 (391.6 kJ/mol). It was that the Pt species with a stronger intrinsic activity on Pt/Al2O3. In Fig. 1(b), N2 selectivity of Pt/CeZrO2 was higher than that of Pt/Al2O3. In detail, the highest N2 selectivity (about 65%) was obtained by Pt/CeZrO2, while the highest value for Pt/Al2O3 was only 50%. Fig. 1(c) showed the generated value of N2O for both catalysts. It displayed the same tendency as the temperature went up, i.e., firstly increased then decreased. It was noteworthy that Pt/CeZrO2 had a stronger ability to suppress the formation of N2O than Pt/Al2O3. The highest N2O approached 60 ppm over Pt/Al2O3 at 300 °C, while the maximum N2O emission was only 26 ppm over Pt/CeZrO2 at 325 °C. The larger amounts of N2O emission over Pt/Al2O3 at low temperature led to its lower N2 selectivity. The significant difference of N2O emission was not associated with the ability of N2O decomposition (Figure S1), which might be due to the different Pt states and reaction mechanism. From Fig. 1(d), the value of NOx was relatively low below 275 °C. So controlling the production of N2O was an effective method to improve N2 selectivity in low temperatures. Unlike Pt/Al2O3, Pt/CeZrO2 had a stronger ability to suppress the generation of by-product NOx above 275 °C. In conclusion, Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 catalysts displayed obviously different catalytic performance. A better activity but lower N2 selectivity was obtained by Pt/Al2O3, while Pt/CeZrO2


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possessed higher N2 selectivity but lower activity. It indicated that the different metal-support interaction must be existed in both catalysts, which led to difference catalytic performance and reaction mechanisms. The reason that Pt/Al2O3 showed better activity but Pt/CeZrO2 was beneficial to improve N2 selectivity should be explained clearly, which was very meaningful for designing catalysts for ammonia oxidation reaction.

Fig.2 Arrhenius plots of ammonia conversion turnover frequency Table 1 the kinetic analysis results Rates Reaction

NH3+O2a

Samples Pt/Al2O3

(mol/g∙s)

TOF (s-1)

Ea (kJ/mol)

6.3×10-6

0.12

211.7

4.0×10-7

0.0077

391.6

Pt/CeZrO2 The Pt content of Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 was 5.13×10-5 mol/g. acatalyst bed temperature is 220°C

3.2 O2-TPD



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Fig.3 O2-TPD curves for both samples

O2-TPD measurements were investigated to understand and identify the different oxygen species over both catalysts. As shown in Fig.3, three kinds of oxygen species: α, β and γ were observed on the surface of Pt/CeZrO2. The oxygen species α was attributed to the surface chemical adsorbed oxygen under 250 °C, oxygen species γ with a higher desorption temperature above 700 °C was ascribed to lattice oxygen, but oxygen species β was because of the oxygen vacancy.21,22 As for Pt/Al2O3, only α and β oxygen species were found, which indicated that lattice oxygen γ desorption was extremely hard due to the strong Al-O bond strength.23 When comparing the peak areas of the two catalysts, larger amount of vacancy oxygen and lattice oxygen species were obtained over Pt/CeZrO2. Moreover, the vacancy oxygen and lattice oxygen species of Pt/CeZrO2 were still existed after treated at 400 °C, but none oxygen species were presented over Pt/Al2O3 above 400 °C.

3.3 H2-TPR


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Fig.4 TPR profiles of Pt species on both catalysts (a); re-reduction profile of Pt/CeZrO2 (b)

The redox properties of Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 were depicted in Fig.4. From Fig.4a, the peak of Pt/Al2O3 was assigned to Pt species reduction. Different from Pt/Al2O3, the peak intensity of Pt/CeZrO2 was extremely high, which was mainly due to the hydrogen spillover phenomenon leading to Pt oxide and surface CeO2 species reduction.24 The reduction peak of Pt/CeZrO2 was located at 212 °C, which greatly shifted to 152 °C for Pt/Al2O3. As claimed in literature, Pt/CeZrO2 possessed a stronger metal-support interaction due to Pt-O-Ce bond, which enhanced the platinum-oxygen bond strength, leading to weaker reduction ability of Pt species.25,26 The better reduction ability was obtained by Pt/Al2O3 due to the weaker platinum-oxygen bond strength. In this work, both catalysts with different support materials contributed to the different reduction ability of Pt species, leading to different catalytic performance. The cycled H2-TPR was measured to prove the transfer phenomenon of oxygen species from CeZrO2 to Pt species, which was presented in Fig.4b. Three peaks were observed in 50 °C to 900 °C.



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The H2 consumption peak located at 212 °C was 355.5 μmol/g, which was much larger than the theoretical amounts of PtO reacted H2(51.2 μmol/g). It was mainly because of the hydrogen spillover leading to some surface CeO2 reduction. The H2 consumption at 430 °C and 900 °C belonged to the remaining CeO2 reduction.27-29 Only the peak (212 °C) was found when the catalyst powder was reduced below 400 °C. Afterwards, re-reduction was measured after the temperature decreased to room temperature. A new peak appeared at the lower temperature (102 °C) belonged to some regenerative Pt oxide species reduction. It’s H2 consumption was 39.6 μmol/g, which indicated that about 80% Pt species were oxidized again due the effective transfer of oxygen species from CeZrO2 to Pt species. The Pt oxide states of Pt/CeZrO2 was kept strongly due to the effect of support material, which was a main reason for the weakened NH3-SCO performance.

3.4 CO-FTIR measurement


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Fig. 5. CO-FTIR spectra prepared by N2(a); CO-FTIR results reduced by NH3(b); CO-FTIR results after prepared under N2 after reduced by NH3 (c)

The active platinum state could be one of the key factors to affect the catalytic performance.30 After the samples were pretreated in N2, the CO-FTIR result for Pt species was provided in Fig. 5 (a). The bands of 2062 cm-1 was CO bonded on metallic Pt states, and the bands of 2097 cm-1 belonged to mild Pt oxidation states.31 Both metallic Pt and mild Pt oxidation states were observed over Pt/CeZrO2 and Pt/Al2O3 catalysts. But the Pt species of Pt/CeZrO2 contained a larger amount of mild Pt oxidation states and a little bit of Pt metallic states, while more Pt metallic states existed in Pt/Al2O3. Furthermore, a lower coordination metallic Pt was observed at 2012 cm-1 on Pt/CeZrO2.32 It marked the Pt species of Pt/CeZrO2 had smaller Pt particle, while Pt/Al2O3 did not have the smaller Pt particle after treated by N2. The results suggested that the Pt species exposed states could be influenced by support material.12-14 CO adsorption behaviors were measured after reduction by NH3 (shown in Fig.5b). The band at 2053 cm-1 was because the metallic Pt was found on Pt/Al2O3, but the mild Pt oxidation states almost all disappeared. While Pt oxide species (2097 cm-1) was still observed over Pt/CeZrO2. It indicated that the reduction of Pt oxide species was much harder due to the effect of support CeZrO2. Moreover, the ACS Paragon Plus Environment


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different electronic states of Pt species over both samples were also existed clearly. The Pt species of Pt/Al2O3 with more electron, the band of CO absorption appeared at 2053 cm-1, while the CO absorption band of Pt/CeZrO2 located at higher wavenumber (2058 cm-1).33,34 Fig.5c showed CO-FTIR results pretreatment in N2 after reduction. And the flowing N2 was prepared by the deoxidizing agent. Compared with the results in Fig.5b, the results of 2059 cm-1 and 2062 cm-1 was because metallic Pt obviously shifted to higher wave numbers than that of Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 pretreated by NH3. It was worthwhile to point out that not only the metallic Pt (2062 cm-1) but also large amounts of Pt oxidation states (2093 cm-1) over Pt/CeZrO2 was observed clearly. It could be deduced that the generation of Pt oxidation states belonged to oxygen species transfer function.35 According to the results of catalytic performance, the presence of mild Pt oxidation states over Pt/CeZrO2 weakened the oxidation ability for NH3, thus leading to higher N2 selectivity. However, Pt0 active states almost kept intact over Pt/Al2O3, which was the main contributor to better NH3-SCO activity.


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Fig.6 CO-FTIR spectra of the two catalysts prepared by the diesel vehicle simulation gas

In order to obtain the Pt species states in NH3-SCO reaction, the CO-FTIR was tested after the catalyst treatment by the diesel vehicle simulation gas. Two CO absorption peaks of 2091 cm-1 and 2165 cm-1 were found on Pt/CeZrO2, which were mild Pt oxidation states and Pt oxidation states(Fig.6). While Pt species of Pt/Al2O3 mainly existed in metallic Pt state (2059 cm-1), just a little bit of mild Pt oxidation (2091 cm-1). It could clearly show the Pt species states in reaction process. All the Pt species of Pt/CeZrO2 were oxidation states due to the existed excess O2, while Pt/Al2O3 had a strong ability to keep the metallic Pt state because of the little bit of reduction gas NH3. 3.5 TEM results



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Fig.7 TEM results for Pt/CeZrO2 (a); TEM results for Pt/Al2O3(b); HRTEM results for Pt/CeZrO2 (c) and Pt/Al2O3(d)

To provide more direct evidence for Pt species in the reaction atmosphere, TEM and HRTEM were measured and displayed in Fig.7. Before measurement, the sample was pretreated by simulated exhaust


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gas to make the catalyst keep the same states as the reaction process. Fig. 7a and 7b presented the TEM results. For Pt/CeZrO2, Pt species was highly dispersed on support, and was found in 0.8-2.0 nm (1.21 nm average diameter), and the particle size of Pt species with a mean size of 2.45 nm located at 1.0nm-4.0 nm from Pt/Al2O3. However, the higher dispersion over Pt/CeZrO2 did not have an ability to promote the NH3-SCO activity. It was because that the smaller Pt particle size over Pt/CeZrO2 was obtained as a result of the strong Pt-O-Ce bond, which made Pt species present as inactive states.35 The HRTEM images were observed further over Pt/CeZrO2 (Fig.7c) and Pt/Al2O3 (Fig.7d). As for Pt/CeZrO2, the obscure even overlapped interface between Pt species and CeO2 particle was observed clearly, indicating that the interface oxygen species was very active. Moreover, the d-spacing of Pt species over Pt/CeZrO2 was 0.29 nm, which proved PtO formation because of the oxygen species transfer function.30 Combining with CO-FTIR results, a good consistency was showed, the lattice oxygen species of CeZrO2 could transfer to Pt species, making Pt species become oxidation states. And the Pt species of Pt/CeZrO2 with the weaker reduction ability (confirmed by H2-TPR) promoted the high N2 selectivity. However, the interface between Pt species and Al2O3 remained clearly after treated by the reaction gas and Pt0 species of Pt/Al2O3 could be remained, which was the same result with CO-FTIR treated by reaction gas. Furthermore, Pt(111) with 0.23 nm d-spacing was found on Pt/Al2O3.34 According to the references, the oxygen dissociation was the rate-determining step in NH3-SCO reaction.36,37 Moreover, the presence of Pt(111) for Pt/Al2O3 could increase the dissociation probability of oxygen molecules, and more atomic oxygen could enhance the ability of dehydration of ammonia, which led to a higher NH3-SCO activity.30,38,39



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3.6 CO chemisorption Table 2 Pt particle size and Pt dispersion for catalysts Samples

SABET(m2/g)

CO adsorption Pt particle size (nm)

Pt dispersion (%)

TEM Pt particle size (nm)

Pt/CeZrO2

114

1.37

74%

1.21

Pt/Al2O3

129

2.49

41%

2.45

From Table 2, the Pt dispersion was 41% for Pt/Al2O3, while Pt species of Pt/CeZrO2 with a higher dispersion (74%) was found. In addition, the Pt particle size of Pt/Al2O3 obtained by CO chemisorption was about 2.49 nm, it was decreased to 1.37 nm for Pt/CeZrO2 due to higher Pt dispersion on Pt/CeZrO2. And the CO adsorption results could be related with the TEM results. However, the Pt species of Pt/CeZrO2 with higher dispersion and smaller particle size did not display a better activity because of the Pt oxidation states with lower intrinsic activity. Thus Pt species existed states was the main factor to affect NH3-SCO activity.

3.7 NH3 adsorption-desorption


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Fig.8 Ammonia adsorption-desorption results on Pt/Al2O3 (a); Ammonia adsorption-desorption results on Pt/CeZrO2 (b)

NH3 adsorption-desorption behaviors were displayed in Fig. 8. For Pt/Al2O3, the bands at 1490 cm-1, 1389 cm-1and 1692 cm-1 belonged to NH3 bonded on Bronsted acid sites at 80 °C,40-44 while the adsorption peaks of 2240 cm-1 and 3000-3500 cm-1 were NH3 bonded on Lewis sites.45-47 The area of



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adsorption peaks decreased as a increase of temperature, indicating ammonia was reacted or desorbed. It was also worth noting that the nitrates species (1603 cm-1 1560 cm-1 and 2048 cm-1) were produced as a increase of temperature, which proved the reaction of NH3 and oxygen species indeed existed.48 It was interesting that NH2 and -NH intermediates were presented at 1583 cm-1 and 1452 cm-1, which could be activated and reacted to form the nitrates species.49 Combined with the activity, the productions were N2, N2O and NOx. Furthermore, NH mechanism was also proved on Pt(111),15,17 and the presence of Pt(111) was also proved by the TEM results. FTIR spectra of NH3 adsorbed on Pt/CeZrO2 was showed in Fig.8b.50 In detail, the adsorption peaks of 1300 cm-1, 1200-1000 cm-1 and 3500-3000 cm-1 belonged to ammonia bonded on Lewis sites.50,51 Correspondingly, the Brønsted peak was at 1567 cm-1 and 1401 cm-1.31 The area of NH3 adsorbed decreased as as a increase of temperature, which was the same with that of Pt/Al2O3. It was interesting that the new peak of 1328 cm-1 appeared suddenly at 150 °C, then disappeared with the reaction progress, which must be an intermediate species for ammonia oxidation reaction. According to references, the band was belonged to N2H4 species,52 and N2H4 mechanism was found when the oxygen species came from CeZrO2. The N2H4 species might be formed by the combination of two NH2 species produced by the dehydrogenation of NH3, which indicated that ammonia oxidation reaction mechanism over Pt/CeZrO2 was different from that over Pt/Al2O3. 3.8 The in situ reaction FTIR results of adsorbed NH3 with O2


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Fig.9 DRIFTS results about the reaction of adsorbed NH3 and O2 on Pt/Al2O3 (a) and Pt/CeZrO2 (b) at 275 °C

Fig.9a showed the DRIFTS spectra about NH3 and O2 the reaction over Pt/Al2O3. The adsorption peaks of 3000-3500 cm-1 and 1273 cm-1 were ammonia bonded on the Lewis sites, and the Bronsted acid sites (1692,1490 and 1394 cm-1) were also found.40-47 With reaction progress, the area of ammonia



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adsorption peaks in Lewis sites disappeared quickly, which suggested that ammonia bonded on Lewis sites could be activated more easily. The NH2 species (1583 cm-1) was also presented, which showed a good consistency with the NH3 adsorption-desorption spectra. It suggested that the reaction mechanism kept unchanged due to the strong oxygen dissociation ability of Pt(111). Furthermore, some new species would appear gradually with the reaction progress. Accordingly, NO species (1544 cm-1) was found at 0 min and the intensity increased significantly with reaction progress.53 But, the production NO could not be found in the results of catalytic performance below 275 °C. While, the asymmetric N-N-O stretching modes of N2O (2240 cm-1) was observed at 1-7 min,54 which indicated that the NO might be a key species for N2O formation. Fig.9b showed the results of Pt/CeZrO2. The bands of 3000-3500 cm-1 and 1000-1200 cm-1 were ammonia bonded on Lewis sites, while ammonia bonded on Brønsted sites was found at 1627 cm-1.31,50 The same with Pt/Al2O3, the ammonia bonded on Lewis sites was a major contributor to NH3-SCO activity with the adsorption peaks area was decreased significantly. It was very interesting that an adsorbed nitroxyl (HNO) species (1470 cm-1) appeared at 5 min, without increasing as the reaction progress, which could be an intermediate species for ammonia oxidation.55 At the same time, the product N2O was observed at 5 min and disappeared at 7 min, with much shorter time, which indicated Pt/CeZrO2 had a stronger ability to suppress N2O formation than Pt/Al2O3. Afterwards, the NO species (1030, 1223 and 1519 cm-1) were observed clearly.56-58 Compared with the results of NH3 adsorption-desorption spectra over Pt/CeZrO2, N2H4 mechanism was produced when the adsorbed NH3 reacted with the oxygen species from CeZrO2, while the ammonia oxidation reaction would follow HNO mechanism when NH3 was reacted with gaseous oxygen species. ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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3.9 FTIR spectra of the in situ reaction of NH3 and O2

Fig.10 FTIR spectra of the in situ reaction of NH3 with O2 over Pt/Al2O3 (a) and Pt/CeZrO2 (b)



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From Fig.10, only the adsorption peaks of NH3 species on Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 were displayed due to NH3 and O2 unreacted at 80 °C. For Pt/Al2O3, the intensities of adsorption NH3 species (1653 and 3000-3500 cm-1) were decreased with reaction progress and disappeared until 150 °C, and -NH2 (1581 cm-1) and -NH (1455 cm-1) were found. It marked that the NH3 species was activated to -NH2 and -NH followed NH mechanism. In addition, NO species (1555 and 1431 cm-1) and N2O species (1734 cm-1) showed at 250 °C, and the intensity of production increased as the temperature increase.53,59 According to the results of activity performance, NO was not produced at 250 °C, indicating that NO was the key intermediate for generation of N2O. As shown in Fig.10b, the intensity of NH3 adsorption species (1577, 1414, 1392, 1296 and 1000-1200 cm-1) was reduced with reaction progress on Pt/CeZrO2 and disappeared at 200 °C.50,51 Compared with that of Pt/Al2O3, NH3 adsorbed on Pt/CeZrO2 had a weaker ability to be dehydrogenated due to the different Pt states. Afterwards, the intermediates HNO (1470 cm-1) and N2H4 (1328 cm-1) over Pt/CeZrO2 were observed at 250 °C.52,55 It indicated that the HNO and N2H4 mechanism might be coexisted during the ammonia oxidation reaction, which was different from the reaction mechanism over Pt/Al2O3. Subsequently, NO formation (1547, 1518, 1440, 1221 and 1030 cm-1) was presented at higher temperature (until 300 °C), and the intensity was increased with increasing temperature.

3.10 Reaction mechanism over Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2


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Fig.11 the reaction mechanism and Pt states over Pt/Al2O3(a) and Pt/CeZrO2(b)

According to the results of TEM and CO-FTIR prepared by the reaction gas, the different Pt species states were showed in Fig.11. Pt species of Pt/Al2O3 was presented mainly as Pt0 active states, and the existence of Pt(111) species was proved by the TEM measurements. The active Pt(111) could improve O2 dissociation to O as reaction (1), and promote ammonia dehydrogenation as reaction (2-4).36,37 It was beneficial to NH and NH2 formation, and facilitated the products N2O, NO and N2 generation. O2→2O (1) NH3+O→NH2+OH (2) NH2+O→NH+OH (3) NH+O→N+OH (4) For Pt/Al2O3, the existence of Pt(111) was a positive factor for active atomic oxygen species. Moreover, larger amount of active oxygen species would promote the generation of NO following the reaction (5). At low temperature, NO formation led to production of by-product N2O through reaction (6), at higher temperature, NO with high desorption rates was the main by-product. In conclusion, the



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larger amounts of active oxygen species was a key factor for the dehydrogenation of ammonia towards NH mechanism, which led to the better NH3-SCO activity. N+O→NO (5) N+NO→N2O (6) As for Pt/CeZrO2, the main PtO species were presented clearly due to the interface oxygen transfer interaction, which were confirmed by CO-FTIR and TEM results. It was not beneficial to active atomic oxygen formation, and suppressed ammonia dehydrogenation and NO formation, thus ammonia oxidation reaction mechanism over Pt/CeZrO2 was different from that over Pt/Al2O3. From the in situ reaction of NH3 and O2, the intermediate species HNO and N2H4 were observed, which indicated that not just one reaction mechanism for ammonia oxidation existed over Pt/CeZrO2. When the active oxidation species from the lattice oxygen species, the ammonia oxidation reaction was presented as N2H4 mechanism following the reactions (7) to (11).60,61 In the first step, NH2 species were produced by abstraction of H from adsorbed NH3 (7). Then the recombination of NH2 species led to the formation of N2H4 intermediate (8) and then reacted with O to produce N2 (9) and/or N2O (10). At the same time, HNO mechanism also appeared when the active oxygen species from oxygen molecules, which was proved by the adsorbed NH3 and O2 in situ reaction.62 At the beginning, the adsorbed NH3 reacted with active oxygen species to generate NH (12), and then HNO was generated by combining NH with the oxygen atom (13). While limited HNO intermediates were observed because of the weaker ability of PtO to activate O2, and the lack of active oxidation species would suppress the formation of by-products N2O (15) and NO (16), leading to the higher N2 selectivity (14). Furthermore, the NH mechanism could not be excluded over Pt/CeZrO2 catalyst. ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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NH3+O→NH2+OH (7) 2NH2→N2H4 (8) N2H4+2O→N2+2H2O (9) 2N2H4+6O→2N2O+4H2O (10) NH2+2O→NO+H2O (11) NH3+O→NH+H2O (12) NH+O→HNO (13) HNO+NH→N2+H2O (14) 2HNO→N2O+H2O (15) HNO+O→NO+OH (16)

4、Conclusions Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 catalysts with different metal-support interaction led to different Pt states. Pt/Al2O3 contained Pt0 species mainly due to Pt species and Al2O3 weak interaction, even the obvious interface existed between Pt and Al2O3. It also should be noted that Pt(111) with extremely high activity was observed by TEM results. While the overlapped interface was presented obviously due to the transfer of oxygen species from CeZrO2 to Pt species, which resulted in PtO formation (CO-FTIR and TEM). More importantly, different reaction mechanisms were induced by different Pt states due to the distinctive ability for dissociation O2. In detail, the ammonia oxidation reaction over Pt/Al2O3 followed NH mechanism, while N2H4 mechanism and HNO mechanism co-existed over Pt/CeZrO2. NH mechanism would easily lead to formation of by-product NO, while N2 was promoted



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by N2H4 and HNO mechanism. Finally, the obvious distinction of NH3-SCO catalytic performance was obtained over Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2. Pt/Al2O3 with T50 = 231 °C showed a better activity than that of Pt/CeZrO2 (T50 = 275 °C), correspondingly, the TOF value over Pt/Al2O3 was 0.12 s-1 remarkably larger than that over Pt/CeZrO2 (0.0077 s-1), while the N2 selectivity (65 %) was obtained over Pt/CeZrO2, obviously higher than that over Pt/Al2O3.

Acknowledgements The financial support for the study described in this article from National Natural Science Foundation Project in China under contract number 21802099.

Supporting Information N2O conversion over Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/CeZrO2 (PDF)

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