{"id":221729,"date":"2025-09-11T04:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/metallic-nanocatalysts-what-really-happens-during-catalysis"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:38:26","slug":"metallic-nanocatalysts-what-really-happens-during-catalysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/metallic-nanocatalysts-what-really-happens-during-catalysis","title":{"rendered":"Metallic nanocatalysts: What really happens during catalysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metallic-nanocatalysts-what-really-happens-during-catalysis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a combination of spectromicroscopy at BESSY II and microscopic analyses at DESY\u2019s NanoLab, a team has gained new insights into the chemical behavior of nanocatalysts during catalysis.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c07668\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n<p>The nanoparticles consisted of a platinum core with a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rhodium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rhodium<\/a> shell. This configuration allows a better understanding of structural changes in, for example, rhodium\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/platinum+catalysts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">platinum catalysts<\/a> for emission control. The results show that under typical catalytic conditions, some of the rhodium in the shell can diffuse into the interior of the nanoparticles. However, most of it remains on the surface and oxidizes. This process is strongly dependent on the surface orientation of the nanoparticle facets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a combination of spectromicroscopy at BESSY II and microscopic analyses at DESY\u2019s NanoLab, a team has gained new insights into the chemical behavior of nanocatalysts during catalysis. The research is published in the journal ACS Nano. The nanoparticles consisted of a platinum core with a rhodium shell. This configuration allows a better understanding of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221729","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}