“…So far, it is generally recognized that the electronic and morphological properties of the Pd particles play a dominant role in its catalytic performance [8,9]. Based on this account, several strategies for tuning the electronic and/or morphological properties of Pd-based catalyst by incorporating a second metal such as Au, Ag, Cu and alkali metals [7,[10][11][12], decorating Pd particles with Si [13], pre-treatment with oxygen-containing compounds [14,15], modifying the supports with transition-metal oxides [16] or by selectively poisoning active Pd sites with CO [6,17] have been used to improve their selectivity. Although some of these measures are effective to improve the selectivity of ethylene (S E ), to the best of our knowledge, the ethylene selectivity usually decreases with the increase of acetylene conversion, especially at nearly 100% acetylene conversion and the high molar ratio of H 2 /C 2 H 2 .…”