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. 2022 Dec 7;153(11):3405–3422. doi: 10.1007/s10562-022-04218-6

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

CO oxidation over npAu at 30 °C: Using a recently published activation procedure (left) [74]—consisting of several short 300 °C annealing steps—as-prepared npAu catalysts can be reliably activated for CO oxidation within a couple of hours. Monolithic npAu discs (diameter: 5 mm, thickness: 200 microns) activated in this way showed under the applied reaction conditions (pTotal = 1 bar, p(CO) = 10 mbar, p(O2) = 100 mbar, balanced with He as carrier gas) a conversion of ~ 40%. Taking advantage of the effective diffusion coefficient of CO determined by PFG NMR, the microkinetic data compiled on the right hand-side could be extracted. In addition to the monolithic samples, also npAu platelets (diameter: a few 100 microns, thickness: 200 microns) were investigated which were obtained by mechanical breakup of the 5 mm monoliths. In this way, the conversion could be increased to ∼60% (see next section)