1 State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China. [email protected].
2 Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry of Jilin Province, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, China.
3 Hubei Key Laboratory of Energy Storage and Power Battery, School of Mathematics, Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan, 442002, China.
4 Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
The surface lattice oxygen of ZnO was demonstrated to be critical for the nonoxidative dehydrogenation of ethanol, which combines with surface-exposed Zn to effectively produce acetaldehyde and the energy molecule hydrogen.