甲醇在Pt-Fe(111)/C表面吸附的理论研究

采用密度泛函理论和周期平板模型相结合的方法, 对CH3OH分子在Pt-Fe(111)/C表面top, fcc, hcp和bridge位的吸附模型进行了构型优化、能量计算, 结果表明bridge位是较有利的吸附位. 掺杂后费米能级的位置发生了右移, 价带和导带均增宽, 极利于电子-空穴的迁移, 这对提高催化活性是非常有利的. 考察抗中毒性发现: CO在Pt(111)/C面上的吸附能比甲醇吸附能要高, CO在Pt-Fe(111)/C的吸附能比甲醇吸附能要低, 可说明CO在Pt(111)/C面上有中毒效应, 而Pt-Fe(111)/C的抗CO中毒能力增强, 是催化氧化甲醇良好的催化剂.     

Pt-Mo2C/GC催化甲醇氧化的现场电化学-红外光谱研究

应用离子交换法制备了40%Pt在Mo2C/GC上的电催化剂.X射线衍射(XRD)显示,Pt在Mo2C载体上有较好的分散度,平均粒径为3 nm.循环伏安、计时电位测试表明,酸性溶液中,Pt-Mo2C/GC具有良好的甲醇氧化性能.其催化甲醇氧化的起始电位比Pt/C的负移了90 mV.这一优异性能与Pt和载体Mo2C之间的协同作用有关.现场红外光谱电化学测量显示,甲醇在Pt/C电极氧化的中间产物是桥式吸附COB和线性吸附COL,而在Pt-Mo2C/GC电极则未检测到有害中间产物CO,其氧化终产物均为CO2.     

Theoretical Study on the Adsorption and Decomposition of Methanol over the Pt-Mo（111）/C Surface

The density functional theory(DFT) and self-consistent periodic calculation were used to investigate the methanol adsorption on the Pt-Mo(111)/C surface.The adsorption energies,equilibrium geometries and vibration frequencies of CH3OH on nine types of sites on the Pt-Mo(111)/C surface were predicted and the favorite adsorption site for methanol is the top-Pt site.Both sites of valence and conduction bands of doped system have been broadened,which are favorable for electrons to transfer to the cavity.The possible decomposition pathway was investigated with transition state searching and the calculation results indicate that the O-H bond is first broken,and then the methanol decomposes into methoxy.The activation barrier of O-H bond breaking with Pt-Mo catalyst is only 104.8 kJ mol-1,showing that carbon supported Pt-Mo alloys have promoted the decomposition of methanol.Comparing with the adsorption energies of CH3OH on the Pt(111)/C surface and that of CO,the adsorption energies of CO are higher,and Pt(111)/C is liable to be oxidized and loses the activity,which suggests that the catalyst Pt-Mo(111)/C is in favor of decomposing methanol and has better anti-poisoning ability than Pt(111)/C.     

甲酸在Pt-Sn(111)/C合金表面吸附的量子化学研究

采用周期平板模型, 结合密度泛函理论对HCOOH和CO在Pt-Sn(111)/C表面的top、brigde、hcp和fcc共计8个位点的吸附模型进行构型优化和能量计算, 并对吸附前后的频率、电荷、能带和态密度进行了研究. 计算结果表明fcc-Pt₃是较为有利的吸附位点, Sn掺杂之后费米能级右移, 导带增宽, 价带和导带的位置略微降低, 合金表面电子结构变化利于甲酸的吸附解离催化, 可使甲酸燃料电池阳极催化性能显著提高. 通过催化剂表面的抗中毒分析, 发现CO在Pt-Sn(111)/C表面的吸附能以两种趋势下降, 阳极催化剂掺杂改性后抗CO中毒能力增强.     

直接甲醇燃料电池三元催化剂PtRuCo/C的制备及其电化学性质

使用柠檬酸三钠作为稳定剂,硼氢化钠作为还原剂,用浸渍还原法制备了20%(w)Pt60Ru30Co10/C催化剂.利用透射电子显微镜(TEM)和X射线衍射(XRD)对催化剂进行了表征.考察了不同pH值对制备催化剂的催化甲醇氧化能力及稳定性的影响,并使用预吸附单层CO溶出方法研究了其抗中毒能力.结果表明,当pH=8时,制备的PtRuCo/C对甲醇氧化具有最高的催化活性,其催化活性远高于商业化的Pt50Ru50/C,同时催化剂的稳定性最好,高于商业化的Pt50Ru50/C的稳定性,而且预吸附单层CO的起始氧化电位比Pt50Ru50/C的明显负移.     

甲醛在Ru（001）／K,O面上化学吸附的分子轨道研究

近几年来人们对甲醇在金属表面上的脱氢反应进行了大量的研究工作。实验表明:CH_3O和H_2CO都是反应中的稳定中间体。我们曾对CH_3O在Cu(111)和Pt(111)面上的化学吸附进行了理论研究。 实验表明吸附电正性钾原子和吸附电负性氧原子对甲醇在Ru(001)面上脱氢反应是不同的。Anton所做的光谱结果说明吸附氧原子能抑制H_2CO在Ru(001)面上的吸附和     

不同温度烧制介孔碳作为直接甲醇燃料电池催化剂载体

以嵌段共聚物P123为模板制备介孔氧化硅SBA-15, 并以此SBA-15为模板, 以蔗糖为碳源在不同的温度下(600-900 °C)制备介孔碳CMK-3. 采用浸渍还原法, 以硼氢化钠为还原剂, 制备介孔碳载Pt电催化剂, 即20% (w) Pt/CMK-3. 利用循环伏安法(CV)、计时电流法等测试电催化剂对甲醇的催化氧化性能及稳定性. 预吸附单层CO溶出伏安法研究测试催化剂抗CO中毒能力. 结果表明在烧制温度为900 °C时制备的介孔碳载Pt催化剂具有最好的催化性能和稳定性, 而在烧制温度为700 °C时制备的介孔碳载Pt催化剂对CO有较低的溶出电位.     

CO和H在Pt/WC(0001)表面的吸附

采用密度泛函理论(DFT)和周期平板模型,研究两种WC(0001)表面的几何结构和表面能,并对Pt原子单层(PtML)在两种WC(0001)表面的高对称性吸附位上的吸附能和分离功进行计算.结果发现,终止于W原子的WC(0001)为最稳定的WC(0001)表面,Pt原子单层以hcp位的方式吸附于W终止的WC(0001)表面是PtML/WC(0001)体系最稳定的几何构型.在此基础上研究了CO分子和H原子分别在PtML/WC(0001)表面和具有相似表面结构的Pt(111)表面的吸附行为.在0.25 ML(monolayer)低覆盖度下,与在Pt(111)表面相比,在PtML/WC(0001)表面上的Pt—C间距明显拉长和CO分子吸附能减少,说明PtML/WC(0001)表面抗CO中毒能力比Pt(111)表面高;态密度分析进一步解释了CO分子与不同表面Pt原子的成键机理.在同一覆盖度下,H原子在PtML/WC(0001)表面的最大吸附能等于甚至略高于在Pt(111)表面的,表明Pt/WC对氢气氧化反应具有良好的催化活性,是一种很有前途的质子交换膜燃料电池(PEMFC)阳极催化剂.     

甲醇在Pt/C和Pt/WO_3/C电极上的电氧化

用液相还原法制备碳载Pt(Pt/C)和碳载Pt/WO3(Pt/WO3/C)催化剂.实验表明该催化剂中加入一定量的WO3后,其对甲醇的催化氧化活性和稳定性都有一定提高,并以Pt、W原子比为1∶1的催化剂性能最好.这是由于Pt催化剂中加入了WO3后,其电化学活性比表面积增大,并且降低了对CO吸附强度.     

Pt（111）和Pt3Ni（111）表面上CO催化氧化反应的密度泛函理论研究

采用密度泛函理论,对Pt(111)和Pt3Ni(111)表面上CO和O的单独吸附、共吸附以及CO的氧化反应进行了系统的研究. 结果表明, Pt3Ni(111)表面上CO的吸附弱于Pt(111)表面, O的吸附明显强于Pt(111)表面. 两个表面表现出相似的CO催化氧化活性. 表面Ni的存在不但稳定了O的吸附,同时也降低了过渡态O的能量.     

碳载Pt和PtRu催化剂的甲醇电氧化比较

利用电化学方法对商用Pt/C和PtRu/C催化剂在酸性介质中的甲醇电氧化进行了比较研究.动电位和恒电位氧化实验结果皆表明PtRu/C比Pt/C对甲醇电催化活性高.PtRu合金的形成不仅改变了催化剂表面对氢的吸附性质,而且使氧化物还原峰电位向阴极方向移动.Ru与甲醇的相互作用为温度活化过程,需要较高的温度.     

Characterization and methanol electrooxidation studies of Pt(111)/Os surfaces prepared by spontaneous deposition

Catalytic activity of the Pt(111)/Os surface toward methanol electrooxidation was optimized by exploring a wide range of Os coverage. Various methods of surface analyses were used, including electroanalytical, STM, and XPS methods. The Pt(111) surface was decorated with nanosized Os islands by spontaneous deposition, and the Os coverage was controlled by changing the exposure time to the Os-containing electrolyte. The structure of Os deposits on Pt(111) was characterized and quantified by in situ STM and stripping voltammetry. We found that the optimal Os surface coverage of Pt(111) for methanol electrooxidation was 0.7 +/- 0.1 ML, close to 1.0 +/- 0.1 Os packing density. Apparently, the high osmium coverage Pt(111)/Os surface provides more of the necessary oxygen-containing species (e.g., Os-OH) for effective methanol electrooxidation than the Pt(111)/Os surfaces with lower Os coverage (vs e.g., Ru-OH). Supporting evidence for this conjecture comes from the CO electrooxidation data, which show that the onset potential for CO stripping is lowered from 0.53 to 0.45 V when the Os coverage is increased from 0.2 to 0.7 ML. However, the activity of Pt(111)/Os for methanol electrooxidation decreases when the Os coverage is higher than 0.7 +/- 0.1 ML, indicating that Pt sites uncovered by Os are necessary for sustaining significant methanol oxidation rates. Furthermore, osmium is inactive for methanol electrooxidation when the platinum substrate is absent: Os deposits on Au(111), a bulk Os ingot, and thick films of electrodeposited Os on Pt(111), all compare poorly to Pt(111)/Os. We conclude that a bifunctional mechanism applies to the methanol electrooxidation similarly to Pt(111)/Ru, although with fewer available Pt sites. Finally, the potential window for methanol electrooxidation on Pt(111)/Os was observed to shift positively versus Pt(111)/Ru. Because of the difference in the Os and Ru oxophilicity under electrochemical conditions, the Os deposit provides fewer oxygen-containing species, at least below 0.5 V vs RHE. Both higher coverage of Os than Ru and the higher potentials are required to provide a sufficient number of active oxygen-containing species for the effective removal of the site-blocking CO from the catalyst surface when the methanol electrooxidation process occurs.     

Chemisorption of (CHx and C2Hy) hydrocarbons on Pt(111) clusters and surfaces from DFT studies

We used the B3LYP flavor of density functional theory (DFT) to study the chemisorption of all CH(x) and C(2)H(y) intermediates on the Pt(111) surface. The surface was modeled with the 35 atom Pt(14.13.8) cluster, which was found to be reliable for describing all adsorption sites. We find that these hydrocarbons all bind covalently (sigma-bonds) to the surface, in agreement with the studies by Kua and Goddard on small Pt clusters. In nearly every case the structure of the adsorbed hydrocarbon achieves a saturated configuration in which each C is almost tetrahedral with the missing H atoms replaced by covalent bonds to the surface Pt atoms. Thus, (Pt(3))CH prefers a mu(3) hollow site (fcc), (Pt(2))CH(2) prefers a mu(2) bridge site, and PtCH(3) prefers mu(1) on-top sites. Vinyl leads to (Pt(2))CH-CH(2)(Pt), which prefers a mu(3) hollow site (fcc). The only exceptions to this model are ethynyl (CCH), which binds as (Pt(2))C=CH(Pt), retaining a CC pi-bond while binding at a mu(3) hollow site (fcc), and HCCH, which binds as (Pt)HC=CH(Pt), retaining a pi bond that coordinates to a third atom of a mu(3) hollow site (fcc) to form an off center structure. These structures are in good agreement with available experimental data. For all species we calculated heats of formation (DeltaH(f)) to be used for considering various reaction pathways on Pt(111). For conditions of low coverage, the most strongly bound CH(x) species is methylidyne (CH, BE = 146.61 kcal/mol), and ethylidyne (CCH(3), BE = 134.83 kcal/mol) among the C(2)H(y) molecules. We find that the net bond energy is nearly proportional to the number of C-Pt bonds (48.80 kcal/mol per bond) with the average bond energy decreasing slightly with the number of C ligands.     

氢原子在Pt及Pt系双金属催化表面吸附的密度泛函理论研究

采用密度泛函理论(dFT)考察了Pt(100)、(110)、(111)三种表面氢原子的吸附行为, 计算了覆盖度为0.25 ML时氢原子在Pt 三种表面和M-Pt(111)双金属(M=Al, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Pd)上的最稳定吸附位、表面能以及吸附前后金属表面原子层间弛豫情况. 分析了氢原子在不同双金属表面吸附前后的局域态密度变化以及双金属表面d 带中心偏离费米能级的程度并与氢吸附能进行了关联. 计算结果表明, 在Pt(100), Pt(110)和Pt(111)表面, 氢原子的稳定吸附位分别为桥位、短桥位和fcc 穴位. 三种表面中以Pt(111)的表面能最低, 结构最稳定. 氢原子在不同M-Pt(111)双金属表面上的最稳定吸附位均为fcc 穴位, 其中在Ni-Pt 双金属表面的吸附能最低, Co-Pt 次之. 表明氢原子在Ni-Pt 和Co-Pt 双金属表面的吸附最稳定. 通过对氢原子在M-Pt(111)双金属表面吸附前后的局域态密度变化的分析, 验证了氢原子吸附能计算结果的准确性. 掺杂金属Ni、Co、Fe 的3d-Pt(111)双金属表面在吸附氢原子后发生弛豫, 第一层和第二层金属原子均不同程度地向外膨胀. 此外, 3d金属的掺入使得其对应的M-Pt(111)双金属表面d带中心与Pt 相比更靠近费米能级, 吸附氢原子能力增强, 表明3d-Pt系双金属表面有可能比Pt具有更好的脱氢活性.     

Methanol oxidation on the PtPd(111) alloy surface: A density functional theory study

The mechanisms of methanol (CH₃OH) oxidation on the PtPd(111) alloy surface were systematically investigated by using density functional theory calculations. The energies of all the involved species were analyzed. The results indicated that with the removal of H atoms from adsorbates on PtPd(111) surface, the adsorption energies of (i) CH₃OH, CH₂OH, CHOH, and COH increased linearly, while those of (ii) CH₃OH, CH₃O, CH₂O, CHO, and CO exhibited odd‐even oscillation. On PtPd(111) surface, CH₃OH underwent the preferred initial C H bond scission followed by successive dehydrogenation and then CHO oxidation, that is, CH₃OH → CH₂OH → CHOH → CHO → CHOOH → COOH → CO₂. Importantly, the rate‐determining step of CH₃OH oxidation was found to switch from CO → CO₂ on Pt(111) to COOH → CO₂ + H on PtPd(111) with a lower energy barrier of 0.96 eV. Moreover, water also decomposed into OH more easily on PtPd(111) than on Pt(111). The calculated results indicate that alloying Pt with Pd could efficiently improve its catalytic performance for CH₃OH oxidation through altering the primary pathways from the CO path on pure Pt to the non‐CO path on PtPd(111).     

Thermal decomposition of HSCH2CH2OH on Cu(111): identification and adsorption geometry of surface intermediates

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has been employed to study the surface intermediates from the thermal decomposition of HSCH2CH2OH on Cu(111) at elevated temperatures. On the basis of the changes of the core-level binding energies of C, O, and S as a function of temperature, it is found that HSCH2CH2OH decomposes sequentially to form -SCH2CH2OH and -SCH2CH2O-. Theoretical calculations based on density functional theory for an unreconstructed one-layer copper surface suggest that -SCH2CH2OH is preferentially bonded at a 3-fold hollow site, with an adsorption energy lower than the cases at bridging and atop sites by 15.6 and 47.5 kcal x mol(-1), respectively. Other structural characteristics for the energy-optimized geometry includes the tilted C-S bond (14.1 degrees with respect to the surface normal), the C-C bond titled toward a bridging site, and the C-O bond pointed toward the surface. In the case of -SCH2CH2O- on Cu(111), the calculations suggest that the most probable geometry of the adsorbate has its S and O bonded at hollow and bridging sites, respectively. With respect to the surface normal, the angles of the S-C and O-C are 27.9 and 34.0 degrees.     

Examination of Pt(111)/Ru and Pt(111)/Os surfaces: STM imaging and methanol oxidation activity

Ruthenium and osmium were deposited in submonolayer amounts on Pt(111) single crystal surfaces using the previously reported ‘spontaneous deposition’ procedure [Chrzanowski et al., Langmuir, 13 (1997) 5974]. Such surfaces were first explored using ex situ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to image the deposition characteristics of ruthenium and osmium islands on Pt(111). It was found that, using the spontaneous deposition procedure, a maximum coverage of 0.20 ML ruthenium is formed on the surface after 120 s of exposure to a RuCl₃ solution in 0.1 M HClO₄. A homogeneous deposition on the Pt(111) surface was found, with no observed preferential deposition on step edges or surface defect sites. In contrast, in the spontaneous deposition of osmium, osmium clusters form preferentially at, though not limited to, surface defect sites and step edges. Osmium island deposition occurs at a greater rate than ruthenium on Pt(111), and possible explanations are presented. Methanol activity on the Pt(111)/Ru and Pt(111)/Os surfaces is also studied, using the coverage values determined to yield the highest activity for methanol electro-oxidation (0.20 ML coverage for Ru and 0.15 ML for Os). At potentials more negative than 0.40 V vs. RHE, the Pt(111)/Ru surface yields a higher surface activity than Pt(111)/Os. However, at potentials more positive than 0.04 V, Pt(111)/Os exhibits demonstrably higher surface activity. The relevance of this data is discussed and future avenues of interest are indicated.