A quasi-stable molybdenum sub-oxide with abundant oxygen vacancies that promotes CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol.

ABSTRACT: Production of methanol from anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a promising chemical process that can alleviate both the environmental burden and the dependence on fossil fuels. In catalytic CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol, reduction of CO₂ to intermediate species is generally considered to be a crucial step. It is of great significance to design and develop advanced heterogeneous catalysts and to engineer the surface structures to promote CO₂-to-methanol conversion. We herein report an oxygen-defective molybdenum sub-oxide coupled with Pt nanoparticles (Pt/H _x MoO_3-y ) which affords high methanol yield with a methanol formation rate of 1.53 mmol g_-cat ^-1 h^-1 in liquid-phase CO<

SUBMITTER: Kuwahara Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8317622 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature