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Cobaltosilicate zeolite beyond platinum catalysts for propane dehydrogenation

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Propane dehydrogenation has been used industrially as a non-oil-based propylene production process, but it strongly depends on precious-metal catalysts such as supported Pt materials, which dominate most propane dehydrogenation processes currently used in industry. Catalysts with earth-abundant metals have been explored with a view to replacing Pt, but their performances remain inadequate. Here we report a cobaltosilicate zeolite catalyst, which has solely tetrahedral cobalt sites and none of the unstable cobalt species in the zeolite crystals that are characteristic of conventional cobaltosilicate materials. This catalyst exhibits properties that could be attractive for industrial application, including sufficient propylene productivity, high stability and facile regenerability. Moreover, this system outperforms the benchmark supported Pt–Sn catalysts under equivalent conditions.

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Fig. 1: Catalytic evaluation in PDH.
Fig. 2: Durability and activity evaluation of CoS-1 in PDH.
Fig. 3: Characterization of isolated Co in CoS-1.
Fig. 4: Modelling of the mechanism.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge beamtime at Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (beamline 1W1B) and Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF, beamline BL14 W1) and are grateful for help with XANES and EXAFS characterization. We thank F. Chen for helping with SEM characterization. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFA1504500, 2021YFA1500700 and 2022YFE0108000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22288101, 22241801, 22321002, 22425207 and 22202177) and a Start-up Grant from Ningbo Innovation Center, Zhejiang University (NBHG2023X012). This work was also supported by the User Experiment Assist System of SSRF.

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  1. Key Lab of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, State Key Lab of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Hang Zhou, Liang Wang, Lujie Liu, Lu Liu, Yu Hui & Feng-Shou Xiao

  2. Ningbo Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China

    Hang Zhou, Liang Wang & Feng-Shou Xiao

  3. State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

    Huan Li & Jianping Xiao

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    Huan Li & Jianping Xiao

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    Shengqi Chu

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    Jizhen Qi, Anyu Cai & Liwei Chen

  7. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, In-situ Center for Physical Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Zhouhong Ren & Liwei Chen

  8. Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Catalytic Science and Technology, Liaoning Petrochemical University, Fushun, China

    Yu Hui, Yucai Qin & Lijuan Song

  9. Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Xuedi Qin, Jiaqi Shi & Jue Hou

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    Yongqi Ding & Jiabi Ma

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    Shaodan Xu

  12. Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

    Xin Tao & Lina Li

  13. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Qi Yang & Bingwen Hu

  14. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China

    Xi Liu

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H.Z. performed the catalyst preparation, characterization and catalytic tests. H.L. and J.X. performed the theoretical simulation and wrote the corresponding section. S.C., X.T. and L.L. performed the XANES and EXAFS characterization and analysed the data. J.Q., Z.R., A.C., X.L. and L.C. performed TEM characterization and identified the isolated cobalt. Lujie Liu, Lu Liu, X.Q., J.S., J.H. and S.X. participated in the characterization, catalysis and discussion. Y.H., Y.Q., L.S., Q.Y. and B.H. provided help with discussion on the catalyst structure. Y.D. and J.M. performed the ToF-MS characterization. L.W. and F.-S.X. designed the study, analysed the data and wrote the paper. All authors discussed the results and improved the paper.

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Zhou, H., Li, H., Wang, L. et al. Cobaltosilicate zeolite beyond platinum catalysts for propane dehydrogenation. Nat Catal 8, 357–367 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-025-01320-x

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