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Engineering morphologies of yttrium oxide supported nickel catalysts for hydrogen production

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The catalytic performance is highly related to the catalyst structure. Herein, a series of Ni nanoparticles supported on Y2O3 with different morphologies were successfully synthesized via hydrothermal process screening different pH environments. These Ni/Y2O3 catalysts were applied to efficiently produce COx-free H2 through ammonia decomposition. We identify a significant impact of Y2O3 supports on nickel nanoclusters sizes and dispersion. The experimental results show that Ni/Y11 catalyst achieves 100% ammonia decomposition conversion under a gas hour space velocity (GHSV) of 12,000 ml·h−1·gcat−1 and temperature of 650 °C. Such a high level of activity over Ni/Y11 catalyst was attributed to a large specific surface area, appropriate alkalinity, and small Ni nanoparticles diameter with high dispersion.

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催化性能与催化剂结构密切相关，本工作通过调控水热法溶液的pH值合成了一系列不同形貌的Y2O3载体，采用浸渍法制备了系列Ni/Y2O3催化剂及其应用于氨分解生成不含碳氧化合物的氢气。研究表明Y2O3 载体对镍纳米颗粒的尺寸和分散度具有显著的影响：Ni/Y11催化剂具有最小的Ni纳米颗粒和较高的Ni分散度，在空速为12,000 ml h−1 gcat−1和温度为650 ºC时实现了氨的完全分解。 Ni/Y11催化剂的高活性主要归因于较大的比表面积、适宜的表面酸碱性和高分散度的Ni纳米颗粒。

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21868016, 21763018, 22005296 and 21875096), the Key Laboratory for Environment and Energy Catalysis of Jiangxi Province (No. 20181BCD40004), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (No. 20181BAB203016) and the Graduate Students Innovation Special Foundation of Jiangxi Province (No. YC2021-B014).

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    Rong-Bin Zhang, Zi-Ao Tu, Gang Feng, Ying-Zhi Yu, Fei-Yang Hu, Xiao-Han Chen & Run-Ping Ye

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    Tomas Ramirez Reina

  5. Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Sciences Institute, University of Seville-CSIC, Seville, 41092, Spain

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Zhang, RB., Tu, ZA., Meng, S. et al. Engineering morphologies of yttrium oxide supported nickel catalysts for hydrogen production. Rare Met. 42, 176–188 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-022-02136-5

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