Ru nanoparticles on a Cs-loaded MgO superbase as highly efficient catalysts for ammonia synthesis

Lin Liu; Xilun Zhang; Xiaohua Ju; Ji Feng; Jiemin Wang; Ping Chen

doi:10.1039/d1dt01797g

Ru nanoparticles on a Cs-loaded MgO superbase as highly efficient catalysts for ammonia synthesis

Dalton Trans. 2021 Sep 14;50(35):12074-12078. doi: 10.1039/d1dt01797g.

Authors

Lin Liu¹, Xilun Zhang^{1

2}, Xiaohua Ju¹, Ji Feng^{1

2}, Jiemin Wang^{1

3}, Ping Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. [email protected].
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ Zhang Dayu School of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.

PMID: 34519730
DOI: 10.1039/d1dt01797g

Abstract

Cs-Loaded MgO, a typical type of solid superbase, was used as a support to disperse and anchor Ru nanoparticles. Much enhanced Ru dispersion together with electron donation of Cs-loaded MgO enables Ru nanoparticles on Cs-loaded MgO to exhibit excellent activity and intrinsic activity for ammonia synthesis, superior to the conventional Ru/MgO catalyst and the state-of-the-art Cs modified Ru/MgO catalyst under identical reaction conditions.