Consuelo Alvarez-Galvan¹, Pablo Lustemberg^1,2*, Jose A. Alonso³, Freddy Oropeza⁴, María Herranz¹, Jesus Cebollada¹, Martin Dapena¹, Jose M. Campos-Martin¹, Victor A. de la Peña-O’Shea⁴, M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano¹

1 Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, CSIC, C/Marie Curie 2, 28049, Madrid, Spain

2 Instituto de Física Rosario (IFIR), CONICET-UNR, Bv. 27 de Febrero 210bis, S2000EZP Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

3 Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

4 IMDEA ENERGÍA, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

* Corresponding authors emails: lustemberg@gmail.com

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:dc-46 [version v1]

Publication date: Mar 17, 2021

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Consuelo Alvarez-Galvan, Pablo Lustemberg, Jose A. Alonso, Freddy Oropeza, María Herranz, Jesus Cebollada, Martin Dapena, Jose M. Campos-Martin, Victor A. de la Peña-O’Shea, M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano, Elucidating structure and function of Ni/La-doped-ceria catalysts for CO2 reduction by the reverse water gas shift reaction, Materials Cloud Archive 2021.43 (2021), doi: 10.24435/materialscloud:dc-46.

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Reducing and/or utilizing CO2 in the atmosphere is mandatory to decrease its negative effects as greenhouse gas. The reverse water gas shift reaction (rWGS) is one of the most promising routes for CO2 valorization. Here, we show that Ni/La-doped ceria catalysts, prepared by the solution combustion synthesis method, has an excellent catalytic performance per unit mass of catalyst. Structure-activity correlations obtained using a combination of different techniques such as X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, in-situ NAP-XPS, Electron Microscopy, and catalytic testing, point out to optimum values for the Ni loading and the La proportion. Density functional theory calculations of the elementary steps of the reaction on model Ni/ceria catalysts aid toward the microscopic understanding of the active sites nature. Metallic Ni activates H2 dissociation and a certain La doping maximizes Ce3+ sites, which supplies greater available oxygen to form H2O. These findings are essential for the rational design of highly efficient and selective rWGS catalysts.

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CO2_to_CO+O.zip MD5md5:d049738fdf811a6259fc59bad060629a	22.1 MiB	Initial state (IS), the final state (FS) and the transition state (TS) for carbon dioxide dissociation pathway on Ni4.CeO2(111), Ni4.Ce2O3(0001) and Ni(111).
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Keywords

CO2 reduction RWGS nickel CeO2 Lanthanum Oxygen Vacancies