Preparation method of single-layer and double-layer reversibly-regulated cerium oxide single crystal nano film
Technical Field
The invention relates to a preparation method of a single-layer and double-layer reversibly regulated cerium oxide single crystal nanostructure, belonging to the technical field of nano materials.
Background
Platinum-cerium oxide exhibits excellent catalytic properties in many industrial catalytic reactions, such as: steam shift reaction, selective oxidation of carbon monoxide, steam reforming of methanol, etc. The excellent catalytic performance is due to the presence of a metal-oxide interface in the catalyst structure. While the performance of the catalyst is also affected by the surface composition and surface electron/geometry. In the platinum-cerium oxide catalyst, the precious metal platinum can transfer electrons to cerium oxide, so that the electronic structure of the cerium oxide can be regulated, and meanwhile, because strong interaction exists between the cerium oxide and the precious metal platinum, some metastable structures can stably exist, so that the geometric structure of the cerium oxide can also be regulated. Therefore, it is important for us to understand the structure-activity relationship in catalysis to build cerium oxide of different thicknesses on Pt (111) single crystal.
At present, the preparation method of cerium oxide nano single crystal on Pt (111) mainly comprises two methods: one is to deposit metal Ce to form alloy with Pt, and then oxidize the alloy to obtain cerium oxide; the other is "active deposition", that is, depositing cerium oxide on a heated substrate under an oxygen atmosphere to obtain cerium oxide. The ceria nano-islands obtained by oxidizing the alloy are usually a plurality of ceria layers (2 nm), while the ceria obtained by active deposition is usually highly non-uniform in surface height, so that it still has great challenges to realize atomic-level controllability of the thickness of the ceria, and even to reversibly regulate the thickness.
Disclosure of Invention
Based on the limitation of the prior art, the invention successfully realizes single-layer (one O-Ce-O layer, about 0.31nm) and double-layer (two O-Ce-O layers, about 0.62nm) CeO on the surface of the same sample by regulating and controlling the annealing atmosphere and time2The selective preparation of the nano single crystal film can reversibly regulate and control the thickness, and the method is simple and easy to implement. With the usual Pt/CeO2The catalyst needs to be higher than 100 ℃ to show obvious CO oxidation activity, but the oxidized single-layer cerium oxide prepared by the method can obviously react with CO at 25 ℃, and the structure has high catalytic activity.
A platinum-cerium oxide nano catalyst, wherein platinum is Pt (111) single crystal, cerium oxide is deposited on the surface of the Pt (111) single crystal, and the cerium oxide is single-layer or double-layer. The single-layer and double-layer can be reversibly regulated.
The monolayer in the invention refers to a single-layer thickness cerium oxide structure (an O-Ce-O layer with the thickness of about 0.31 nm).
The bilayer of the present invention refers to a cerium oxide structure of twice the monolayer thickness (two O-Ce-O layers, about 0.62nm thick).
A method for preparing a single-layer and double-layer reversibly-regulated cerium oxide single-crystal nanostructure comprises the steps of selectively obtaining a single-layer (one O-Ce-O layer) and a double-layer (two O-Ce-O layers) cerium oxide film on the surface of the same Pt (111) single-crystal nanomaterial, and realizing reversible thickness conversion:
the preparation method of the platinum-cerium oxide nano catalyst with the reduced single-layer cerium oxide comprises the following steps:
(1) providing an atomically clean flat single crystal Pt (111) substrate to obtain an atomically clean flat surface;
(2) maintaining the Pt (111) substrate treated in the step (1) at-200-400 ℃, and depositing Ce on the surface of the Pt (111) single crystal through a (Ce) evaporation source in an oxygen atmosphere to obtain 0.3-1 single-layer equivalent of cerium oxide (CeO)2) A nanostructure;
(3) in a carbon monoxide atmosphere, for any 0.3-1 monolayer equivalent of CeO2Annealing at the temperature of 300-700 ℃ to obtain a nano catalyst sample with a reduced single-layer cerium oxide film deposited on Pt;
the reduced single-layer cerium oxide film refers to a single-layer cerium oxide film (an O-Ce-O layer with the thickness of about 0.31nm) after carbon monoxide reduction.
The preparation method of the platinum-cerium oxide nano catalyst with oxidized single-layer cerium oxide comprises the following steps:
(1) providing an atomically clean and flat single crystal Pt (111) substrate to obtain an atomically clean and flat surface;
(2) maintaining the Pt (111) substrate treated in the step (1) at-200-400 ℃, and depositing Ce on the surface of the Pt (111) single crystal through a (Ce) evaporation source in an oxygen atmosphere to obtain 0.3-1 single-layer equivalent of cerium oxide (CeO)2) A nanostructure;
(3) in a carbon monoxide atmosphere, for any 0.3-1 monolayer equivalent of CeO2Annealing at an annealing temperature of300-700 ℃ to obtain a nano catalyst sample with a reduced single-layer cerium oxide film deposited on Pt;
(4) and (3) annealing the nano catalyst sample prepared in the step (3) to 200-500 ℃ in an oxygen atmosphere, wherein the annealing time is controlled within 15 minutes, so as to obtain an oxidized single-layer cerium oxide film sample.
The preparation method of the platinum-cerium oxide nano catalyst with oxidized double-layer cerium oxide comprises the following steps:
(1) providing an atomically clean flat single crystal Pt (111) substrate to obtain an atomically clean flat surface;
(2) maintaining the Pt (111) substrate treated in the step (1) at-200-400 ℃, and depositing Ce on the surface of the Pt (111) single crystal through a (Ce) evaporation source in an oxygen atmosphere to obtain 0.3-1 single-layer equivalent of cerium oxide (CeO)2) A nanostructure;
(3) in a carbon monoxide atmosphere, for any 0.3-1 monolayer equivalent of CeO2Annealing at the temperature of 300-700 ℃ to obtain a nano catalyst sample with a reduced single-layer cerium oxide film deposited on Pt;
(4) and (3) annealing the nano catalyst sample prepared in the step (3) to 200-500 ℃ in an oxygen atmosphere, wherein the annealing time is controlled within 15 minutes, so as to obtain an oxidized single-layer cerium oxide film sample.
(5) Annealing the nano catalyst sample prepared in the step (3) or the step (4) to 500-600 ℃ in an oxygen atmosphere, and controlling the annealing time to be 15 minutes or more to obtain the double-layer CeO2A film.
The method for converting the double-layer cerium oxide into the single-layer cerium oxide comprises the following steps:
(a) annealing the platinum-cerium oxide nano catalyst with oxidized double-layer cerium oxide in a carbon monoxide atmosphere, wherein the annealing temperature is 300-700 ℃;
(b) annealing the nano-catalyst treated in the step (a) to 200-500 ℃ in an oxygen atmosphere, wherein the annealing time is controlled within 15 minutes, and obtaining the platinum-cerium oxide nano-catalyst with oxidized single-layer cerium oxide.
The method provides a Pt (111) single crystal substrateThe method for preparing the Ce evaporation source also comprises the following steps: removing the surface oxide layer of a high-purity Ce foil (the purity is more than 99.95 percent), putting the high-purity Ce foil into a metal tungsten crucible, and putting the metal tungsten crucible into an electron beam evaporation source; putting an electron beam evaporation source into a preparation cavity of an ultrahigh vacuum system, and vacuumizing and baking to obtain 5 x 10-9~5×10-11An ultra-high vacuum environment of millibar (mbar); heating up the evaporation source, degassing the Ce source in the tungsten crucible until the working temperature of the Ce source is 5 x 10-9~5×10-11Background vacuum of mbar;
the single crystal Pt (111) substrate with clean and flat atomic level is characterized in that the single crystal Pt (111) substrate is pretreated to remove impurities on the surface of the single crystal Pt (111), and the pretreatment comprises the following steps: carrying out argon ion sputtering on single crystal Pt (111) in an ultrahigh vacuum preparation cavity, wherein the sputtering energy is 1-3 KeV and is 1 multiplied by 10-8~1×10-5And (3) carrying out oxygen burning at 500-700 ℃ in an oxygen mbar atmosphere, and then heating the Pt single crystal to 700-1000 ℃ for annealing.
When annealing is performed in a carbon monoxide atmosphere in the step (3), the carbon monoxide pressure is 1X 10-7~1×10-5mbar, preferably 1X 10-6mbar; the annealing time is 10 minutes or more; the oxygen pressure in step (3) and step (4) is 1X 10-8~1×10-5mbar。
The invention also provides application of the platinum-cerium oxide nano catalyst in selective oxidation of carbon monoxide.
In the selective oxidation of carbon monoxide, the minimum temperature of carbon monoxide oxidation is 25 ℃.
Oxygen pressure at the time of the Ce deposition was 5X 10-8~5×10-7mbar, which can be 1 × 10-7mbar。
At the time of the Ce deposition, the substrate Pt (111) single crystal temperature may preferably be 300 ℃.
When annealing in the carbon monoxide atmosphere, the carbon monoxide pressure is 1 × 10-7~1×10-5mbar, which may preferably be 1X 10-6mbar。
When annealing in the oxygen atmosphere, the oxygen may preferably be 5 × 10-7mbar
The invention has the advantages that:
compared with the prior art, by simple regulation and control of annealing atmosphere and time, the single-layer (one O-Ce-O layer) and double-layer (two O-Ce-O layers) cerium oxide nano single crystal which cannot be obtained in the prior art is selectively and controllably prepared on the surface of the same sample, the thickness can be reversibly regulated and controlled, and the prepared oxidized single-layer cerium oxide has excellent room-temperature CO oxidation activity.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a structural analysis diagram of a reduced single-layer cerium oxide nano-single crystal thin film obtained in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a structural analysis diagram of a reduced single-layer cerium oxide nano-single crystal thin film obtained in example 2 of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a structural analysis diagram of a reduced single-layer cerium oxide nano-single crystal thin film obtained in example 3 of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a structural analysis diagram of a reduced single-layer cerium oxide nano-single crystal thin film obtained in example 4 of the present invention.
FIGS. 5 to 6 are structural analysis graphs of the cerium oxide thin films obtained before and after the treatment in example 5 of the present invention.
Fig. 7 is a structural analysis diagram of the cerium oxide nano-island obtained in comparative example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a structural analysis diagram of a double-layered cerium oxide nano-single crystal thin film obtained in test example 1 of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The present invention is further illustrated by the following examples, and the advantages and effects of the present invention can be easily understood by those skilled in the art from the disclosure of the specification. The following examples are intended only for the purpose of more detailed description and should not be construed as limiting the invention in any way.
EXAMPLE 1 reduced Single layer cerium oxide film
1) Treating Pt (111) single crystal
Repeated argon ion sputtering of Pt single crystal in vacuum chamber (1.5kV, 1)×10-5mbar Ar,10min), oxygen gas firing (600 ℃, 1.0X 10)-7mbar O210min), and then the Pt (111) single crystal is heated and annealed at a high temperature of 700 ℃ for 3 minutes until no impurities are observed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a scanning tunneling microscope.
2) Growing cerium oxide on Pt (111) surface
Maintaining the temperature of a clean Pt (111) substrate at 300 ℃, and introducing 1.0X 10-7mbar O2Ce was deposited at 70nA of evaporation beam for about 30 minutes, yielding 0.8 monolayer equivalent of cerium oxide nanostructures.
3) Annealing treatment in carbon monoxide atmosphere
At 1.0X 10-6For 0.8 monolayer equivalent of prepared CeO in mbar carbon monoxide atmosphere2Annealing was carried out at 400 ℃ for 15 minutes. FIG. 1a is a scanning tunneling microscope image of a sample of the reduced single-layer cerium oxide film obtained by the process, from which it can be seen that the film has a flat surface and a uniform height. FIG. 1b shows a height profile of the thin nano-film of FIG. 1a at the white line, which is seen to be about 0.31nm, which is comparable to CeO2(111) The individual O-Ce-O layers of (a) are highly similar, indicating a single layer of cerium oxide. This is because the interaction between cerium oxide is stronger than the interaction between cerium oxide and substrate Pt, so cerium oxide does not grow as a wet layer on Pt (111), but grows in multiple layers. And the high-temperature treatment of the carbon monoxide can reduce the cerium oxide, so that the interaction between the cerium oxide and the Pt is stronger than that between the cerium oxide, and a uniform single-layer cerium oxide film can be obtained. It can further be seen from the magnified scanning tunneling microscope image that the surface had many pits, indicating that the surface was missing more oxygen atoms, i.e., the surface was a reduced cerium oxide surface (FIG. 1 c).
EXAMPLE 2 oxidized Single layer cerium oxide film
1) Treating Pt (111) single crystal
Repeated argon ion sputtering (1.5kV, 1X 10) of Pt single crystal in a vacuum chamber-5mbar Ar,10min), oxygen gas firing (600 ℃, 1.0X 10)-7mbar O2,10min), and then heating and maintaining the Pt (111) single crystal at a high temperature of 700 ℃ for 3 minutes until no impurities are observed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a scanning tunneling microscope.
2) Growing cerium oxide on Pt (111) surface
Maintaining the temperature of a clean Pt (111) substrate at 300 ℃, and introducing 1.0X 10-7mbar O2Ce was deposited at 70nA of evaporation beam for about 30 minutes, yielding 0.8 monolayer equivalent of cerium oxide nanostructures.
3) Annealing treatment in carbon monoxide atmosphere
At 1.0X 10-6For 0.8 monolayer equivalent of prepared CeO in mbar carbon monoxide atmosphere2Annealing was carried out at 550 ℃ for 10 minutes.
4) Annealing treatment in an oxygen atmosphere
At 5.0X 10-7In oxygen atmosphere of mbar to CeO2Annealing to 400 ℃ for 10 minutes. FIG. 2a is a scanning tunneling microscope image of the annealed sample showing a uniform and flat film, while FIG. 2b shows a nano-film having a height of about 0.32nm, which is comparable to CeO2(111) The individual O-Ce-O layers are highly uniform, so that a selectively exposed surface of the oxidized single layer cerium oxide film on Pt (111) is obtained.
EXAMPLE 3 oxidized Single layer cerium oxide film
1) Treating Pt (111) single crystal
Repeated argon ion sputtering (1.5kV, 1X 10) of Pt single crystal in a vacuum chamber-5mbar Ar,10min), oxygen gas firing (600 ℃, 1.0X 10)-7mbar O210min), and then the Pt (111) single crystal is heated and annealed at a high temperature of 700 ℃ for 3 minutes until no impurities are observed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a scanning tunneling microscope.
2) Growing cerium oxide on Pt (111) surface
Maintaining the temperature of a clean Pt (111) substrate at 300 ℃, and introducing 1.0X 10-7mbar O2Ce was deposited at 70nA of evaporation beam for about 30 minutes, yielding 0.8 monolayer equivalent of cerium oxide nanostructures.
3) Annealing treatment in carbon monoxide atmosphere
At 1.0X 10-6For 0.8 monolayer equivalent of prepared CeO in mbar carbon monoxide atmosphere2Annealing was carried out at 550 ℃ for 10 minutes.
4) Annealing treatment in an oxygen atmosphere
At 5.0X 10-7In oxygen atmosphere of mbar to CeO2Annealing to 500 ℃ for 10 minutes. As shown in fig. 3a, a film sample with a flat surface was obtained after annealing, while the height of the nano-film was about 0.32nm (fig. 3b), so that a selectively exposed surface of the oxidized single-layer cerium oxide film on Pt (111) was obtained.
EXAMPLE 4 oxidized bilayer cerium oxide film
1) Treating Pt (111) single crystal
Repeated argon ion sputtering (1.5kV, 1X 10) of Pt single crystal in a vacuum chamber-5mbar Ar,10min), oxygen gas firing (600 ℃, 1.0X 10)-7mbar O210min), and then the Pt (111) single crystal is heated and annealed at a high temperature of 700 ℃ for 3 minutes until no impurities are observed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a scanning tunneling microscope.
2) Growing cerium oxide on Pt (111) surface
Maintaining the temperature of a clean Pt (111) substrate at 300 ℃, and introducing 1.0X 10-7mbar O2Ce was deposited at 70nA of evaporation beam for about 30 minutes, yielding 0.8 monolayer equivalent of cerium oxide nanostructures.
3) Annealing treatment in carbon monoxide atmosphere
At 1.0X 10-6For 0.8 monolayer equivalent of prepared CeO in mbar carbon monoxide atmosphere2Annealing was carried out at 550 ℃ for 10 minutes.
4) Annealing treatment in an oxygen atmosphere
At 5.0X 10-7In oxygen atmosphere of mbar to CeO2Annealing to 500 ℃ for 20 minutes. FIG. 4a is a scanning tunneling microscope image of a sample obtained after annealing, wherein a large hole is formed in the middle of the film and the surface is coveredReduced to half of the sample of fig. 2, while the height of the nano-film is about 0.64nm (fig. 4b), i.e. two CeO2(111) The height of the O-Ce-O layer, so that it is obtained that the surface of the double-layer cerium oxide is completely exposed.
Example 5 reversible experiment
1) Annealing treatment in carbon monoxide atmosphere
Fig. 5a is a scanning tunneling microscope image of the surface of the double-layered cerium oxide of 0.8 monolayer equivalent, and it can be seen from fig. 5b that the height of the cerium oxide is 0.64nm, i.e., the height of the double-layered cerium oxide. At 1.0X 10-6The surface was annealed in an atmosphere of mbar carbon monoxide at 550 ℃ for 10 minutes.
2) Annealing treatment in an oxygen atmosphere
At 5.0X 10-7In oxygen atmosphere of mbar to CeO2Annealing to 500 ℃ for 10 minutes. FIG. 6a is a scanning tunneling microscope image of the sample obtained after annealing, the surface of the film being flat, and it can be seen from FIG. 6b that the height of the film is about 0.32nm (FIG. 4b), i.e. the single CeO2(111) The height of the O-Ce-O layer, so that a single layer cerium oxide surface is obtained.
Comparative example 1
1) Treating Pt (111) single crystal
Repeated argon ion sputtering (1.5kV, 1X 10) of Pt single crystal in a vacuum chamber-5mbar Ar,10min), oxygen gas firing (600 ℃, 1.0X 10)-7mbar O210min), and then the Pt (111) single crystal is heated and annealed at a high temperature of 700 ℃ for 3 minutes until no impurities are observed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a scanning tunneling microscope.
2) Growing cerium oxide on Pt (111) surface
Maintaining the temperature of a clean Pt (111) substrate at 300 ℃, and introducing 1.0X 10-7mbar O2Ce was deposited at 70nA of evaporation beam for about 30 minutes, yielding 0.8 monolayer equivalent of cerium oxide nanostructures. The surface cerium oxide obtained by the active deposition method exists mainly in the form of islands, while the surface is not flat as can be seen from fig. 7a, and single-layer and double-layer cerium oxide nano-islands are co-existed on the surface as can be seen from fig. 7bAnd (4) storing.
Test example 1
We performed activity tests using the surface of the oxidized cerium oxide film obtained in example 3, and we exposed the surface of this sample to 2.0X 10 at 25 deg.C-6mbar CO for 10 minutes of exposure time, FIG. 8a is a scanning tunneling microscope image of the surface after CO exposure, which shows many bright lines with a height of about 0.12nm (FIG. 8b) compared to the sample surface of example 3, indicating that CO adsorbs and reacts at 25 deg.C on the surface of the single layer of cerium oxide and forms a bright line structure on the surface of the single layer of cerium oxide, as compared to the conventional Pt/CeO2The structure has more excellent catalytic activity because the structure needs to show obvious activity at the temperature of more than 100 ℃.
In conclusion, the invention has the advantages that: the method of this example yielded single-layer (one O-Ce-O layer) and double-layer (two O-Ce-O layers) CeO that could not be achieved by the prior art, by simple control of the annealing atmosphere and time2The selectivity of the nano single crystal can be controlled, and the reversible regulation and control of the thickness which is not reported in the prior art can be further realized. The method is simple, feasible and feasible, and provides a method for preparing and oxidizing the single-layer and double-layer reversibly-regulated cerium oxide single crystal nano structure. Meanwhile, the single-layer cerium oxide film can react with CO at 25 ℃, and shows excellent room-temperature CO oxidation reaction activity.
The above examples are provided only for the purpose of describing the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims. Various equivalent substitutions and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and principles of the invention.