Single-ion copper doping greatly enhances catalytic activity of manganese oxides via electronic interactions

Xiaolei Hu; Shuya Li; Yaxin Chen; Weiye Qu; Junxiao Chen; Zhen Ma; Xingfu Tang

doi:10.1039/c9cc07669g

Single-ion copper doping greatly enhances catalytic activity of manganese oxides via electronic interactions

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Jan 21;56(6):904-907. doi: 10.1039/c9cc07669g.

Authors

Xiaolei Hu¹, Shuya Li, Yaxin Chen, Weiye Qu, Junxiao Chen, Zhen Ma, Xingfu Tang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 2005 Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, China. tangxf@fudan.edu.cn.

PMID: 31850401
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07669g

Abstract

Single-ion copper doping significantly improves the catalytic activity of α-MnO2 in CO oxidation, reducing the apparent activation energy to ∼0.3 eV via strong electronic interactions between the frontier orbitals of copper ions and manganese ions.