{"id":190570,"date":"2024-06-03T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/chemists-uncover-reversible-assembly-of-platinum-nanocatalyst"},"modified":"2024-06-03T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:22:44","slug":"chemists-uncover-reversible-assembly-of-platinum-nanocatalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/chemists-uncover-reversible-assembly-of-platinum-nanocatalyst","title":{"rendered":"Chemists uncover reversible assembly of platinum nanocatalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-uncover-reversible-assembly-of-platinum-nanocatalyst.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and their collaborators have uncovered new details of the reversible assembly and disassembly of a platinum catalyst. The new understanding may offer clues to the catalyst\u2019s stability and recyclability.<\/p>\n<p>The work, described in a paper published in the journal Nanoscale (\u201cUnravelling the origin of reaction-driven aggregation and fragmentation of atomically dispersed Pt catalyst on ceria support\u201d), reveals how single platinum atoms on a cerium oxide support aggregate under reaction conditions to form active catalytic nanoparticles \u2014 and then, surprisingly, fragment once the reaction is stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Fragmentation may sound shattering, but the scientists say it could be a plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and their collaborators have uncovered new details of the reversible assembly and disassembly of a platinum catalyst. The new understanding may offer clues to the catalyst\u2019s stability and recyclability. The work, described in a paper published in the journal Nanoscale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}