Collective photothermal effect of Al2O3‐supported spheroidal plasmonic Ru nanoparticle catalysts in the sunlight‐powered Sabatier reaction

Roos  Grote; Roberto Habets; Jelle Rohlfs; Francesc Sastre; Nicole  Meulendijks; Man Xu; Marcel A. Verheijen; Ken Elen; An Hardy; Marlies K. van Bael; Tim den Hartog; Pascal Buskens

doi:10.1002/cctc.202000795

Collective photothermal effect of Al2O3‐supported spheroidal plasmonic Ru nanoparticle catalysts in the sunlight‐powered Sabatier reaction

Roos Grote, Roberto Habets, Jelle Rohlfs, Francesc Sastre, Nicole Meulendijks, Man Xu, Marcel A. Verheijen, Ken Elen, An Hardy, Marlies K. van Bael, Tim den Hartog (Corresponding author), Pascal Buskens (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Plasmon catalysis is an interesting technology concept for powering chemical processes with light. Here, we report the use of various Al2O3‐supported Ru spheroidal nanoparticles as catalyst for the low‐temperature conversion of CO2 and H2 to CH4 (Sabatier reaction), using sunlight as energy source. At high loadings of Ru spheroidal nanoparticles (5.9% w/w), we observe a sharp increase in the rate of the sunlight powered reaction when compared to the reaction in dark at the same catalyst bed temperature. Based on our results we exclude plasmon coupling as cause, and attribute the rate enhancement to collective photothermal heating of the Al2O3‐ supported Ru nanoparticles.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5618-5622
Number of pages	5
Journal	ChemCatChem
Volume	12
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202000795
Publication status	Published - 19 Nov 2020

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R.H., J.R., F.S., N.M., M.X., P.B. (all TNO), K.E. (IMEC), A.H., M.K.V.B. (both Hasselt University) and T.d.H. (Zuyd University of Applied Sciences) acknowledge financial support from the European Fund for Regional Development through the cross-border collaborative Interreg V program Flanders-The Netherlands (project LUMEN), co-financed by the Belgian province of Limburg and the Dutch provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant. M.A.V. acknowledges Solliance and the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant for funding the TEM facility. R.H., J.R., F.S., N.M., M.X., P.B. (all TNO), K.E. (IMEC), A.H., M.K.V.B. (both Hasselt University) and T.d.H. (Zuyd University of Applied Sciences) acknowledge financial support from the European Fund for Regional Development through the cross‐border collaborative Interreg V program Flanders‐The Netherlands (project LUMEN), co‐financed by the Belgian province of Limburg and the Dutch provinces of Limburg and Noord‐Brabant. M.A.V. acknowledges Solliance and the Dutch province of Noord‐Brabant for funding the TEM facility.

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European Regional Development Fund
Hasselt University

Keywords

Sabatier reaction
carbon dioxide
collective photothermal effect
plasmon catalysis
sunlight

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Grote, R., Habets, R., Rohlfs, J., Sastre, F., Meulendijks, N., Xu, M., Verheijen, M. A., Elen, K., Hardy, A., van Bael, M. K., den Hartog, T., & Buskens, P. (2020). Collective photothermal effect of Al2O3‐supported spheroidal plasmonic Ru nanoparticle catalysts in the sunlight‐powered Sabatier reaction. ChemCatChem, 12(22), 5618-5622. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202000795

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