Exhaust treatment device, and methods of making the same

1. An exhaust treatment device, comprising:

a substrate having thereon a 1- catalyst layer, which comprises a homogenous mixture of a first catalyst metal and a second catalyst metal, which are each deposited as a combined loading, in the absence of selective placement, on both an aluminum oxide and an oxygen storage component,

wherein greater than or equal to about 70 wt % of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal is non-alloyed, wherein the weight percent is based on a combined weight of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal; and

wherein the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal are different and individually selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, rhenium, ruthenium, and osmium,

wherein the aluminum oxide and the storage component are both meso-porous having average pore diameters of about 150 Å to about 1000 Å, wherein about 50% to about 80% of the pore volume, based on the total pore volume, comprise pores having average pore diameters of about 180 Å to about 800 Å, and

wherein the oxygen storage component has a stable cubic structure and is represented by the formula (Ce a Zr b La c Y d Pr e O x ), wherein subscripts a, b, c, d, e, and x, represent atomic fractions, and wherein a+b+c+d+e=1.

2. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 , wherein the first catalyst metal is palladium and the second catalyst metal is rhodium.

3. The exhaust treatment device of claim 2 , wherein greater than 90wt % of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal is non-alloyed.

4. The exhaust treatment device of claim 3 , wherein greater than 95wt % of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal is non-alloyed.

5. The exhaust treatment device of claim 2 , wherein a weight ratio of the palladium to the rhodium is less than or equal to about 20:1.

6. The exhaust treatment device of claim 5 , wherein the ratio is about 3:1 to about 15:1.

7. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 , wherein the aluminum oxide comprises gamma aluminum oxide.

8. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 , wherein the oxygen storage component comprises Ce 0.376 Zr 0.50 La 0.086 Pr 0.038 O 1.95 or Ce 0.25 Zr 0.65 La 0.04 Y 0.06 O 1.95 .

9. A method of making an exhaust emission control device, including a substrate having thereon a 1-catalyst layer, which comprises a homogenous mixture of a first catalyst metal, a second catalyst metal, an aluminum oxide, and an oxygen storage component,

wherein greater than or equal to about 70 wt % of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal is non-alloyed, wherein the weight percent is based on a combined weight of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal;

wherein the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal are different and individually selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, rhenium, ruthenium, and osmium,

the method comprising:

forming a slurry by sequentially depositing the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal, each as a combined loading, in the absence of selective placement, on both the aluminum oxide and the oxygen storage component, wherein the aluminum oxide and the oxygen storage component are both meso-porous having average pore diameters of about 150 Å to about 1,000 Å, wherein about 50% to about 80% of the pore volume, based on the total pore volume, comprise pores having average pore diameters of about 180 Å to about 800 Å, and wherein the oxygen storage component has a stable cubic structure and is represented by the formula (Ce a Zr b La c Y d Pr e O x ), wherein subscripts a, b, c, d, e, and x, represent atomic fractions, and wherein a+b+c+d+e=1,

depositing the slurry on a substrate to form a washcoated substrate; and

calcining the washcoat plus substrate to form a catalyst layer on the substrate, wherein greater than or equal to about 70 wt % of the palladium and rhodium in the catalyst layer is non-alloyed under alloying conditions, wherein the weight percent is based on a total weight of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal in the catalyst.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein greater than 95 wt % of the first catalyst metal and the second catalyst metal is non-alloyed.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein a weight ratio of the palladium to the rhodium is less than or equal to about 20:1.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the ratio is about 3:1 to about 15:1.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the aluminum oxide comprises gamma aluminum oxide.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the oxygen storage component comprises Ce 0.376 Zr 0.50 La 0.086 Pr 0.038 O 1.95 or Ce 0.25 Zr 0.65 La 0.04 Y 0.06 O 1.95 .

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the oxygen storage component has a stable cubic structure.

16. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 ,

wherein the first catalyst metal is palladium and the second catalyst metal is rhodium and a is from 0.01 to 0.6, and the exhaust treatment device further comprises

a retention material disposed around the substrate to form a subassembly; and

a housing disposed around the subassembly.

17. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 , wherein:

a has a value of about 0.01 to about 0.6;

b has a value of less than or equal to about 0.95;

c has a value of less than or equal to about 0.15;

d has a value of less than or equal to about 0.15;

e has a value of less than or equal to about 0.15; and

x has a value less than or equal to about 2.0.

18. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 ,

wherein a ranges from 0.01 to 0.6.

19. The exhaust treatment device of claim 1 ,

wherein the first catalyst metal is palladium and the second catalyst metal is rhodium

and the homogenous mixture further comprises a palladium salt and a rhodium salt.