Determination of the Nature of Hydrogen Contained in Molybdenum Nitrides by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

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Early transition metal carbides and nitrides catalyze a variety of chemical transformations from gas- and solution phase hydrogenations, to the water-gas-shift reaction. The reaction chemistry of molybdenum nitride has typically focused on the surface interactions between the molybdenum and nitrogen moieties and substrate. Our recent work, however, has raised the possibility that protons are critical to the observed reactivity as well. Results with TiO2 nanoparticles indicate that processes that have been traditionally thought of as electron transfer are often correlated with quantitative proton uptake, and our results suggest that a similar phenomenon may be occurring upon reduction of Mo2N. We request 2 days on TOSCA for inelastic neutron scattering to characterize the nature of the hydrogen environments and quantitate the associated proton stoichiometry in reduced Mo2NHx.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49915651
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49915651
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Creator Professor James Mayer; Professor Levi Thompson; Dr Elizabeth Mader; Dr Martin Jones; Dr Jason Gaudet
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-23T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-25T23:00:00Z