Supported metal nanoparticle catalysts often suffer from sintering-induced size-dependent deactivation, limiting their high-temperature applications. Although high-temperature redispersion offers a potential solution, this strategy remains restricted to reducible support materials, severely limiting the selection of catalyst supports with versatile compositions and tunable functionalities. Here, we engineer cationic vacancies at Al2O3-La2O3 interface via strong oxide-support interaction (SOSI)-driven interfacial reconstruction during calcination. The vacancy-mediated confinement effect dynamically intercepts migrating Pt species, enabling the construction of Al2O3-Pt1-La2O3 structure with precisely defined coordination environments. The resulting catalyst achieves complete CO conversion at 145 °C and maintains stability with minimal decline after a 6-h treatment at 1100 °C in air with 10% steam. This interfacial engineering strategy proves universal, as demonstrated by ZrO2-La2O3 counterparts. Our findings break the reducibility dependency in traditional single-atom catalysts (SACs) stabilization by establishing oxide-oxide interface as universal anchoring platforms, which expands the design space of industrial-grade SACs beyond conventional reducible oxides.
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