Highly Enhanced Concentration and Stability of Reactive Ce3+ on Doped CeO2 Surface Revealed In Operando

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• 作者：William C. Chueh ; Anthony H. McDaniel ; Michael E. Grass ; Yong Hao ; Naila Jabeen ; Zhi Liu ; Sossina M. Haile ; Kevin F. McCarty ; Hendrik Bluhm ; Farid El Gabaly
• 刊名：Chemistry of Materials
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：May 22, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：24
• 期：10
• 页码：1876-1882
• 全文大小：350K
• 年卷期：v.24,no.10(May 22, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5002

文摘

Trivalent cerium ions in CeO₂ are the key active species in a wide range of catalytic and electro-catalytic reactions. We employed ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to quantify simultaneously the concentration of the reactive Ce³⁺ species on the surface and in the bulk of Sm-doped CeO₂(100) in hundreds of millitorr of H₂鈥揌₂O gas mixtures. Under relatively oxidizing conditions, when the bulk cerium is almost entirely in the 4+ oxidation state, the surface concentration of the reduced Ce³⁺ species can be over 180 times the bulk concentration. Furthermore, in stark contrast to the bulk, the surface鈥檚 3+ oxidation state is also highly stable, with concentration almost independent of temperature and oxygen partial pressure. Our thermodynamic measurements reveal that the difference between the bulk and surface partial molar entropies plays a key role in this stabilization. The high concentration and stability of reactive surface Ce³⁺ over wide ranges of temperature and oxygen partial pressure may be responsible for the high activity of doped ceria in many pollution-control and energy-conversion reactions, under conditions at which Ce³⁺ is not abundant in the bulk.

Keywords:

ceria; ambient pressure XPS; catalysis; electrochemistry