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Curbed Reactivity of Co-doped (Nb5+ and Rh3+) Catalyst in the Dry Reformation of Methane

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In the dry reforming of methane (DRM), metal doping is used as one of the important methods to modulate the catalyst performance. In this paper, we synthesized two types of catalysts, Rh doped TiO2 (RTO) and Rh/Nb co-doped TiO2 (RNTO), and evaluated their performances in DRM. The CH4 and CO2 conversion of 79% and 95% in RTO were both higher than that in RNTO (the CH4 and CO2 conversion of 73% and 87%) as working for 80 h. The characterizations of XRD, TEM, XPS, EPR, BET, and TPR were carried out to determine the structure of catalysts. We found that the creation of the oxygen vacancies is favorable in Rh solely doped TiO2 but restricted by Rh/Nb co-doping. The XPS results verified that Rh4+ and Rh3+ were presented in RTO, while only Rh3+ can be observed in RNTO. Due to the co-doping of Nb, the Rh induced charge perturbation was balanced by Nb5+ rather than the deprivation of electrons from O2−, therefore the state of Rh3+ was stabilized and the content of oxygen vacancies were decreased which resulted in attenuated activity in the DRM reaction.

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The financial support for this work was provided by the NSF of China (U23B20164), the National Key Research and Development Project of China (2022YFA1503900), the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFA0704502), the Self-deployment Project Research Program of Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CXZX-2022-GS03, CXZX-2022-GH05).

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    An Lin, Lu-Yang Qiao, Shan-Shan Zong, Zheng Liu, Wei Lv, Ji-Quan Huang, Zhang-Feng Zhou & Yuan-Gen Yao

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    An Lin, Zheng Liu & Wei Lv

  3. Fujian College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, People’s Republic of China

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An Lin: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. Lu-Yang Qiao: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—review & editing. Shan-Shan Zong: Data curation, Methodology. Zheng Liu: Writing—review & editing. Wei Lv: Writing—review & editing. Ji-Quan Huang: Data curation. Zhang-Feng Zhou: Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Project administration, Writing—review & editing. Yuan-Gen Yao: Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition.

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Lin, A., Qiao, LY., Zong, SS. et al. Curbed Reactivity of Co-doped (Nb5+ and Rh3+) Catalyst in the Dry Reformation of Methane. Catal Lett (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-024-04679-x

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