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J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces. 2015 Dec 03;119(48):26948-26958. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07317. Epub 2015 Nov 10.

Near-Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Methane-Induced Carbon Deposition on Clean and Copper-Modified Polycrystalline Nickel Materials.

The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces

Raffael Rameshan, Lukas Mayr, Bernhard Klötzer, Dominik Eder, Axel Knop-Gericke, Michael Hävecker, Raoul Blume, Robert Schlögl, Dmitry Y Zemlyanov, Simon Penner

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck , Innrain 80-82, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria ; Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society , Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
  2. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck , Innrain 80-82, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
  3. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Münster , Corrensstrasse 28/30, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
  4. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society , Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
  5. Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University , 1205 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2057, United States.

PMID: 26692914 PMCID: PMC4671104 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07317

Abstract

In order to simulate solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC)-related coking mechanisms of Ni, methane-induced surface carbide and carbon growth was studied under close-to-real conditions by synchrotron-based near-ambient-pressure (NAP) X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) in the temperature region between 250 and 600 °C. Two complementary polycrystalline Ni samples were used, namely, Ni foam-serving as a model structure for bulk Ni in cermet materials such as Ni/YSZ-and Ni foil. The growth mechanism of graphene/graphite species was found to be closely related to that previously described for ethylene-induced graphene growth on Ni(111). After a sufficiently long "incubation" period of the Ni foam in methane at 0.2 mbar and temperatures around 400 °C, cooling down to ∼250 °C, and keeping the sample at this temperature for 50-60 min, initial formation of a near-surface carbide phase was observed, which exhibited the same spectroscopic fingerprint as the C

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