Utilization of structural high entropy alloy for CO oxidation to CO2

Dhakar, S. and Sharma, A. and Katiyar, N.K. and Parui, A. and Das, R. and Singh, A.K. and Tiwary, C.S. and Sharma, S. and Biswas, K. (2023) Utilization of structural high entropy alloy for CO oxidation to CO2. In: Materials Today Energy, 37 .

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Abstract

The nanoengineered high entropy alloy (HEAs) catalysts have attracted the attention of the scientific community due to their exceptional characteristics, wide range of compositional tunability and the utilization of low-cost transition metals. During various electrochemical reactions, the oxidation of carbon-mono-oxide (CO) is an intermediate and it acts as a poison to reduce the efficiency of the reactions. Also, CO is a poisonous gas which is generated during gasoline and diesel combustion in the automobiles. A nanocrystalline HEA catalyst (CoFeNiGaZn) is prepared by easily scalable casting-cum-comminution method, providing pristine catalyst surfaces. It is capable of catalyzing the CO-oxidation to CO2 with high conversion efficiency (∼98%). Density functional theory calculations show that the high activity of the HEA can be attributed to the presence of a considerable amount of filled states of dxz and dyz orbital near the Fermi level for Ni atoms over the surface. Due to the favorable transfer of electrons from this orbitals to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of O2 and adsorption of gaseous CO directly on O∗ to form CO2, the endothermicity of the rate-determining step is 0.43 eV in the Eley-Rideal pathway. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Materials Today Energy
Publisher:	Elsevier Ltd
Additional Information:	The Copyright for this article belongs to the Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords:	Aluminum alloys; Carbon dioxide; Cobalt alloys; Conversion efficiency; Copper alloys; Costs; Density functional theory; Iron alloys; Molecular orbitals; Nanocrystalline alloys; Nanocrystals; Oxidation; Reaction intermediates; Ternary alloys; Transition metals, Alloy catalyst; Alloy materials; Cryomilling; DFT; High entropy alloy material; High entropy alloys; Low-costs; Orbitals; Scientific community; ]+ catalyst, Catalysts
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2023 11:05
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2023 11:05
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/83311

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