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Project "ATOMICAR" data sheet

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Coordinator
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET 

Organization address
address: ANKER ENGELUNDSVEJ 1 BYGNING 101 A
city: KGS LYNGBY
postcode: 2800
website: www.dtu.dk

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 Coordinator Country Denmark [DK]
 Total cost 1˙496˙000 €
 EC max contribution 1˙496˙000 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2017-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-02-01   to  2023-01-31

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET DK (KGS LYNGBY) coordinator 1˙496˙000.00

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 Project objective

The goal of ATOMICAR is to achieve the ultimate sensitivity limit in heterogeneous catalysis: Quantitative measurement of chemical turnover on a single catalytic nanoparticle.

Most heterogeneous catalysis occurs on metal nanoparticle in the size range of 3 nm - 10 nm. Model studies have established that there is often a strong coupling between nanoparticle size & shape - and catalytic activity. The strong structure-activity coupling renders it probable that “super-active” nanoparticles exist. However, since there is no way to measure catalytic activity of less than ca 1 million nanoparticles at a time, any super-activity will always be hidden by “ensemble smearing” since one million nanoparticles of exactly identical size and shape cannot be made. The state-of-the-art in catalysis benchmarking is microfabricated flow reactors with mass-spectrometric detection, but the sensitivity of this approach cannot be incrementally improved by six orders of magnitude. This calls for a new measurement paradigm where the activity of a single nanoparticle can be benchmarked – the ultimate limit for catalytic measurement.

A tiny batch reactor is the solution, but there are three key problems: How to seal it; how to track catalytic turnover inside it; and how to see the nanoparticle inside it? Graphene solves all three problems: A microfabricated cavity with a thin SixNy bottom window, a single catalytic nanoparticle inside, and a graphene seal forms a gas tight batch reactor since graphene has zero gas permeability. Catalysis is then tracked as an internal pressure change via the stress & deflection of the graphene seal. Crucially, the electron-transparency of graphene and SixNy enables subsequent transmission electron microscope access with atomic resolution so that active nanoparticles can be studied in full detail.

ATOMICAR will re-define the experimental limits of catalyst benchmarking and lift the field of basic catalysis research into the single-nanoparticle age.

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