In Situ Monitoring of Nanoparticle Formation during Iridium-Catalysed Oxygen Evolution by Real-Time Small Angle X-Ray Scattering
(2019) In ChemCatChem 11(21). p.5313-5321- Abstract
Real-time Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) has been used to investigate the homogeneity of a series of molecular iridium complexes during water oxidation catalysis in aqueous NaIO4 solution through a continuous flow cell. The results obtained for the unstable [Cp*Ir(OH2)3]2+ precursor forming amorphous IrOx nanoparticles (NPs) in-situ validate and complement previous Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) studies by providing enhanced sensitivity for small particle sizes and increased temporal resolution under realistic reaction conditions. Correlating particle formation profiles with O2 evolution traces allowed homogeneous catalysis to be clearly distinguished from... (More)
Real-time Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) has been used to investigate the homogeneity of a series of molecular iridium complexes during water oxidation catalysis in aqueous NaIO4 solution through a continuous flow cell. The results obtained for the unstable [Cp*Ir(OH2)3]2+ precursor forming amorphous IrOx nanoparticles (NPs) in-situ validate and complement previous Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) studies by providing enhanced sensitivity for small particle sizes and increased temporal resolution under realistic reaction conditions. Correlating particle formation profiles with O2 evolution traces allowed homogeneous catalysis to be clearly distinguished from heterogeneous catalysis. A series of seven pyridine−alkoxide Cp*Ir complexes are shown to be fully homogeneous by SAXS, validating previous studies and confirming their catalysis to be molecular in nature throughout the reaction.
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- author
- Singer Hobbs, Maya
; Sackville, Emma V.
; Smith, Andrew J.
; Edler, Karen J.
LU
and Hintermair, Ulrich
- publishing date
- 2019-11-07
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- homogeneous vs. heterogeneous catalysis, iridium, nanoparticles, SAXS, water oxidation
- in
- ChemCatChem
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 21
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85071887575
- ISSN
- 1867-3880
- DOI
- 10.1002/cctc.201901268
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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- 3116a848-68f1-4d6d-9190-f1ff39dd6ccc
- date added to LUP
- 2023-01-18 09:05:19
- date last changed
- 2023-01-18 14:04:40
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