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  • oa Advanced Electron Microscopy Characterisation of Aluminium-Oxygen Coordination in Catalyst Supports

    Performance of alumina-supported catalyst systems

  • Authors: Trung D. Tran1, Norman Macleod2, Tamsin Bell3, Angela Zheng4, Maria Elena Rivas5 and Dogan Ozkaya6
  • Affiliations: 1 Johnson Matthey, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NH, UK; Johnson Matthey Microscopy Group, Electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC), Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK 2 Johnson Matthey, Billingham, TS23 1LB, UK 3 Johnson Matthey, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NH, UK 4 Johnson Matthey, Devon, Wayne, USA 5 Johnson Matthey, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NH, UK 6 Johnson Matthey, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NH, UK; Johnson Matthey Microscopy Group, Electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC), Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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  • Source: Johnson Matthey Technology Review, Volume 68, Issue 4, Oct 2024, p. 583 - 592
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1595/205651324X17043853773473
    • Received: 26 Oct 2023
    • Accepted: 04 Jan 2024

Abstract

Performance of alumina-supported catalyst systems are significantly affected by how the tetrahedral (Al-O) and octahedral (Al-O) coordination are mixed and blended with each other. Characterisation of aluminium-oxygen coordination is thus important to understand how catalysts interact with alumina at the microscopic level. Here we report the application of two advanced electron microscopy techniques on aluminium-oxygen coordination. The first technique is electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) that can reveal detailed electronic structure profile of aluminium valence band to analyse how aluminium is coordinated by oxygen. The second technique is pair distribution function (PDF) based on electron diffraction (ED), employed to measure aluminium-oxygen bond lengths associated with the coordination geometry.

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Advanced Electron Microscopy Characterisation of Aluminium-Oxygen Coordination in Catalyst Supports
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