Abstract
Supported platinum nanoparticles in the presence of carbon monoxide in the 10–6–103 Pa CO pressure range were studied by grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering. Disruption and aggregation of platinum nanoparticles upon CO exposure are shown to occur in parallel. Particles smaller than a critical size of 1 nm undergo scavenging after disruption in the form of carbonyls at CO pressure as low as 10–1 Pa. Mobile carbonyls then agglomerate to larger clusters. Upon annealing, a CO-driven diffusion and agglomeration of clusters of size ranging between the critical size and 2 nm is observed. These phenomena are discussed in relation to the CO–metal, metal–metal, and metal–substrate relative bond strengths. Similar mechanisms are suggested to hold for other supported metal catalysts.
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