Boron-hyperdoped silicon for the selective oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene

Junjie Chen; Parham Rohani; Stavros G Karakalos; Michael J Lance; Todd J Toops; Mark T Swihart; Eleni A Kyriakidou

doi:10.1039/d0cc02822c

Boron-hyperdoped silicon for the selective oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Aug 25;56(68):9882-9885. doi: 10.1039/d0cc02822c.

Authors

Junjie Chen¹, Parham Rohani¹, Stavros G Karakalos², Michael J Lance³, Todd J Toops⁴, Mark T Swihart¹, Eleni A Kyriakidou¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. elenikyr@buffalo.edu.
² Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
³ Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
⁴ Energy and Transportation Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.

PMID: 32720653
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc02822c

Abstract

Boron containing catalysts have great potential in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Herein, a series of 15, 25 and 42 at% boron-hyperdoped silicon catalysts synthesized by laser pyrolysis was studied. Boron-hyperdoped silicon samples showed >6 times higher propylene productivity than commercial h-BN at 450 °C.