Abstract
Nanoporous gold (NPG), a novel unsupported gold catalyst prepared by dealloying, exhibits exceptional catalytic activity for CO oxidation. Systematic studies were carried out on this new catalytic system, including the active sites of catalysts, the reaction kinetics, and activity dependence as functions of space velocity and temperature. Our results show strong evidence that metallic gold atoms on NPG are the intrinsic active sites at which the reaction of CO with O 2 occurs. The kinetic study found that the reaction rate of CO oxidation on unsupported NPG depends significantly on CO concentration but only slightly on O 2 concentration. We suggest that CO adsorption plays a decisive role in CO oxidation on NPG as the rate-limiting step. By completely ruling out the support influence, our findings provide considerable insight into the role of gold catalysts.
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