In Situ TEM Studies of Catalysts Using Windowed Gas Cells
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. TEM Instrumentation for Solid–Gas Reaction Study of Catalysts
2.1. DP-ETEM
2.2. Windowed Gas Cells
3. Application Examples of Catalyst Study Using Windowed Gas Cell
3.1. HAADF-STEM Imaging: A Powerful Tool for Atomic Resolution Structural Analysis of Catalysts
3.1.1. Spotting Precious-Metal Dopant in Intelligent Catalysts
3.1.2. Revealing Core-Shell Formation of Pt-M Nanoparticles
3.1.3. Studying Single-Atom Catalyst in Real Working Conditions
3.2. EDS/EELS: Chemical Composition and Beyond
3.2.1. Improving EDS Signal for Gas Cell Experiments
3.2.2. Using EELS for Chemical Composition and Valance Structure Analysis
3.3. Operando: Getting One Step Further Towards the Catalyst Fundamentals
4. Discussion and Outlook
4.1. Beam–Gas–Sample Interaction
4.2. Windowed Cell with Multiple Stimuli
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Ye, F.; Xu, M.; Dai, S.; Tieu, P.; Ren, X.; Pan, X. In Situ TEM Studies of Catalysts Using Windowed Gas Cells. Catalysts 2020, 10, 779. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10070779
Ye F, Xu M, Dai S, Tieu P, Ren X, Pan X. In Situ TEM Studies of Catalysts Using Windowed Gas Cells. Catalysts. 2020; 10(7):779. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10070779
Chicago/Turabian StyleYe, Fan, Mingjie Xu, Sheng Dai, Peter Tieu, Xiaobing Ren, and Xiaoqing Pan. 2020. "In Situ TEM Studies of Catalysts Using Windowed Gas Cells" Catalysts 10, no. 7: 779. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10070779