Theoretical study for magnetic effect in dissociative adsorption of oxygen to a platinum monolayer on Ni(110) surface

We investigate oxygen dissociative adsorption to a platinum monolayer on Ni(110) surface (Pt/Ni(110)) by density functional theory. We have shown that the activation barrier on Pt/Ni(110) is lower than that on a clean Pt(001) surface. This may be due to the effect of magnetization of Pt surface. The reason of decrease of activation barrier can be attributed to the flow of electrons from oxygen to platinum surface because the d orbitals have spin polarization at the Fermi level where the down spin d orbitals are unoccupied.     

Adsorption and co-adsorption of CH<Subscript>3</Subscript> and H on flat and defective nickel (111) surfaces

We use a periodic density functional theory (DFT) code to study the adsorption of CH₃ and H, as well as their co-adsorption on a Ni(111) surface with and without Ni ad-atom, at a surface coverage of 0.25 monolayer (ML). We systematically investigate the site preference for CH₃ and H. Then we combine CH₃ and H in many co-adsorbed configurations on both surfaces. Methyl and hydrogen adsorption on a flat Ni(111) surface favours the hollow site over the top site. The presence of a Ni ad-atom stabilizes the adsorption of CH₃ better than a flat surface, while hydrogen is more stable on a flat Ni(111) surface. When H and CH₃ are co-adsorbed at nearest Ni neighbours on the (111) surface, their interaction is always repulsive. However, the dissociative adsorption of CH₄ is stabilised when the fragments are infinitely separated. For the co-adsorbed fragments CH₃ and H, in the presence of an ad-atom, the repulsive interaction is lowered, so that the dissociative form of CH₄ is locally stable.     

H原子在Al(111)和Ag(111)面上的吸附

本文用电荷自洽的EHT方法,研究了H原子在Al(111)和Ag(111)面上的吸附,结果指出:在Al(111)面上,H以原子状态吸附在某些对称位置上,它也能渗透到表面层中去,成为填隙原子;H₂分子在表面处发生解离吸附。在Ag(111)表面上,H原子有可能以分子状态吸附,H—H键平行于表面,这与高分辨率电子能量损失谱所得到的实验结果一致;但H₂分子在Ag(111)表面也可能发生解离吸附。 关键词：     

Ni(111)表面C原子吸附的密度泛函研究

基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理计算,对过渡金属Ni晶体与Ni (111)表面的结构和电子性质进行了研究, 并探讨了单个C原子在过渡金属Ni (111)表面的吸附以及两个C原子在Ni(111)表面的共吸附. 能带和态密度计算表明, Ni晶体及Ni (111)表面在费米面处均存在显著的电子自旋极化. 通过比较Ni (111)表面各位点的吸附能,发现单个C原子在该表面最稳定的吸附位置为第二层Ni原子上方所在的六角密排洞位, 吸附的第二个C原子与它形成碳二聚物时最稳定吸附位为第三层Ni原子上方所在的面心立方洞位. 电荷分析表明,共吸附时从每个C原子上各有1.566e电荷转移至相邻的Ni原子, 与单个C原子吸附时C与Ni原子间的电荷转移量(1.68e)相当. 计算发现两个C原子共吸附时在六角密排洞位和面心立方洞位的磁矩分别为0.059μ_B和 0.060μ_B,其值略大于单个C原子吸附时所具有的磁矩(0.017μ_B).     

H2O分子在Fe（100）, Fe（110）, Fe（111）表面吸附的第一性原理研究

采用第一性原理研究了H₂O分子在Fe（100）,Fe（110）,Fe（111）三个高对称晶面上的表面吸附.结果表明,H₂O分子在三个晶面上的最稳定结构皆为平行于基底表面的顶位吸附结构.H₂O分子与三个晶面相互作用的吸附能及几何结构计算结果表明H₂O分子与三个晶面的相互作用程度不同,H₂O分子与Fe（111）晶面的相互作用最强,其次是Fe（100）,相互作用最弱的是Fe（110）表面,而这与晶面原子 关键词： 第一性原理 Fe单晶表面 2O分子')" href="#">H₂O分子 分子吸附     

First-principles studies on the adsorption of molecular oxygen on Ba(110) surface

The adsorption of O₂ on Ba(110) surface is studied with first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. Our calculations predict that O₂ may prefer to dissociative adsorption on Ba(110) surface without obvious barrier. Also our results do not support the model of charge transfer from the surface to the molecule as a bond breaking mechanism. Instead, the increasing hybridization between O₂ orbitals and the d states of Ba(110) surface may play an important role in the dissociation adsorption.     

Dynamics of interaction of H2 and D2 with Ni(110) and Ni(110) surfaces

Elastic and direct-inelastic scattering as well as dissociative adsorption and associative desorption of H₂ and D₂ on Ni(110) and Ni(111) surfaces were studied by molecular beam techniques. Inelastic scattering at the molecular potential is dominated by phonon interactions. With Ni(110), dissociative adsorption occurs with nearly unity sticking probability s₀, irrespective of surface temperature T_s and mean kinetic energy normal to the surface 〈 E_⊥ 〉. The desorbing molecules exhibit a cos θ_e angular distribution indicating full thermal accommodation of their translation energy. With Ni(111), on the other hand, s₀ is only about 0.05 if both the gas and the surface are at room temperature. s₀ is again independent of T_s, but increases continuously with 〈 E⊥ 〉 up to a value of ～0.4 for 〈 E⊥ 〉 = 0.12 eV. The cos⁵θ_e angular distribution of desorbing molecules indicates that in this case they carry off excess translational energy. The results are qualitatively rationalized in terms of a two-dimensional potential diagram with an activation barrier in the entrance channel. While the height of this barrier seems to be negligible for Ni(110), it is about 0.1 eV for Ni(111) and can be overcome through high enough translational energy by direct collision. The results show no evidence for intermediate trapping in a molecular “precursor” state on the clean surfaces, but this effect may play a role at finite coverages.     

Adsorption of H2O on Al(111)

The adsorption of H₂O on Al(111) has been studied by ESDIAD (electron stimulated desorption ion angular distributions), LEED (low energy electron diffraction), AES (Auger electron spectroscopy) and thermal desorption in the temperature range 80–700 K. At 80 K, H₂O is adsorbed predominantly in molecular form, and the ESDIAD patterns indicate that bonding occurs through the O atom, with the molecular axis tilted away from the surface normal. Some of the H₂O adsorbed at 80 K on clean Al(111) can be desorbed in molecular form, but a considerable fraction dissociates upon heating into OH_ads and hydrogen, which leaves the surface as H₂. Following adsorption of H₂O onto oxygen-precovered Al(111), additional OH_ads is formed upon heating (perhaps via a hydrogen abstraction reaction), and H₂ desorbs at temperatures considerably higher than that seen for H₂O on clean Al(111). The general behavior of H₂O adsorption on clean and oxygen-precovered Al(111) (θ_O ? monolayer) is rather similar at low temperature, but much higher reactivity for dissociative adsorption of H₂O to form OH _adsis noted on the oxygen-dosed surface around room temperature.     

H_2在Ni,Pd与Cu表面的解离吸附

用EAM方法(embeded-atommethod)研究H_2在Ni,Pd与Cu的(100),(110)与(111)面上的解离吸附.首先通过拟合单个H原子在Ni,Pd与Cu不同表面上的吸附能和吸附键长,得到H与这些金属表面相互作用的EAM势,然后计算H_2在这些表面上以不同方式进行解离吸附时的活化势垒E_a,吸附热q_(ad)与吸附键长R.并给出H_2在(110)面上解离吸附的势能曲线.计算结果表明H_2的解离吸附与衬底种类、衬底表面取向及解离方式有关.H_2在Ni表面上解离时活化势垒很低,而在Cu表面解 关键词：     

Density functional study of hypophosphite adsorption on Ni (1 1 1) and Cu (1 1 1) surfaces

Surface structures and electronic properties of hypophosphite, H₂PO₂⁻, molecularly adsorbed on Ni(1 1 1) and Cu(1 1 1) surfaces are investigated in this work by density functional theory at B3LYP/6-31++g(d, p) level. We employ a four-metal-atom cluster as the simplified model for the surface and have fully optimized the geometry and orientation of H₂PO₂⁻ on the metal cluster. Six stable orientations have been discovered on both Ni (1 1 1) and Cu (1 1 1) surfaces. The most stable orientation of H₂PO₂⁻ was found to have its two oxygen atoms interact the surface with two PO bonds pointing downward. Results of the Mulliken population analysis showed that the back donation from 3d orbitals of the transition metal substrate to the unfilled 3d orbital of the phosphorus atom in H₂PO₂⁻ and 4s orbital's acceptance of electron donation from one lone pair of the oxygen atom in H₂PO₂⁻ play very important roles in the H₂PO₂⁻ adsorption on the transition metals. The averaged electron configuration of Ni in Ni₄ cluster is 4s^0.634p^0.023d^9.35 and that of Cu in Cu₄ cluster is 4s^1.004p^0.033d^9.97. Because of this subtle difference of electron configuration, the adsorption energy is larger on the Ni surface than on the Cu surface. The amount of charge transfers due to above two donations is larger from H₂PO₂⁻ to the Ni surface than to the Cu surface, leading to a more positively charged P atom in Ni_nH₂PO₂⁻ than in Cu_nH₂PO₂⁻. These results indicate that the phosphorus atom in Ni_nH₂PO₂⁻ complex is easier to be attacked by a nucleophile such as OH⁻ and subsequent oxidation of H₂PO₂⁻ can take place more favorably on Ni substrate than on Cu substrate.     

Quantum dynamics of the dissociation of H<Subscript>2</Subscript> on Rh(111)

The dissociative adsorption of H₂ on Rh(111) has been studied by high-dimensional quantum calculations using a coupled channel scheme. The potential energy surface was derived from ab initio total energy calculations using density functional theory together with the generalized gradient approximation to describe exchange-correlation effects. Experimentally, at high kinetic energy a step in the dissociative adsorption probability as a function of kinetic energy has been observed [M. Beutl et al., Surf. Sci. 429, 71 (1999)] which has been attributed to the opening up of a new adsorption channel. This feature in the dissociation probability is reproduced in the calculations for H₂ molecules initially in the ro-vibrational ground state but it is not related to the opening up of an additional dissociation channel. Instead, it is caused by purely dynamical effects. In addition, rotational effects in the H₂ dissociation are addressed.     

Adsorption and diffusion of H2O molecule on the Be(0001) surface: A density-functional theory study

Using first-principles calculations, we systematically study the adsorption behavior of a single molecular H₂O on the Be(0001) surface. We find that the favored molecular adsorption site is the top site with an adsorption energy of about 0.3 eV, together with the detailed electronic structure analysis, suggesting a weak binding strength of the H₂O/Be(0001) surface. The adsorption interaction is mainly contributed by the overlapping between the s and pz states of the top-layer Be atom and the molecular orbitals 1b₁ and 3a₁ of H₂O. The activation energy for H₂O diffusion on the surface is about 0.3 eV. Meanwhile, our study indicates that no dissociation state exists for the H₂O/Be(0001) surface.     

Adsorption behavior of H2O on clean and oxygen precovered Ni(s)(111)

Photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS), isotope exchange experiments, work function change (δφ) and LEED were used to study the adsorption and dissociation behavior of H₂O on a clean and oxygen precovered stepped Ni(s)[12(111) × (111)] surface. On the clean Ni(111) terraces fractional monolayers of H₂O are adsorbed weakly in a single adsorption state with a desorption peak temperature of 180 K, just above that of the ice multilayer desorption peak (T_m = 155 K). In the angular resolved UPS spectra three H₂O induced emission maxima at 6.2, 8.5 and 12.3 eV below E_F were found for θ ≈ 0.5. Angular and polarization dependent UPS measurements show that the C_2v symmetry of the H₂O gas-phase molecule is not conserved for H₂O(ad) on Ni(s)(111). Although the Δφ suggest a bonding of H₂O to Ni via the negative end of the H₂O dipole, the O atom, no hints for a preferred orientation of the H₂O molecular axes were found in the UPS, neither for the existence of water dimers nor for a long range ordered H₂O bilayer. These results give evidence that the molecular H₂O axis is more or less inclined with respect to the surface normal with an azimuthally random distribution. H₂O adsorption at step sites of the Ni(s)(111) surface leads in TDS to a desorption maximum at T_m = 225 K; the binding energy of H₂O to Ni is enhanced by about 30% compared to H₂O adsorbed on the terraces. Oxygen precoverage causes a significant increase of the H₂O desorption energy from the Ni(111) terraces by about 50%, suggesting a strong interaction between H₂O and O(ad). Work function measurements for H₂O+O demonstrate an increase of the effective H₂O dipole moment which suggests a reorientation of the H₂O dipole in the presence of O(ad), from inclined to a more perpendicular position. Although TDS and Δφ suggest a significant lateral interaction between H₂O+O(ad), no changes in the molecular binding energies in UPS and no “isotope exchange” between ¹⁸O(ad) and H₂¹⁶O(ad) could be observed. Also, dissociation of H₂O could neither be detected on the oxygen precovered Ni(s)(111) nor on the clean terraces.     

The adsorption of hydrogen on iron; A surface orbital modified occupancy — bond energy bond order calculation

A Surface Orbital Modified Occupancy — Bond Energy Bond Order (SOMO-BEBO) model calculation of hydrogen adsorption on iron is presented. This calculation represents a novel approach to the CFSO-BEBO method in that the calculation is correlated in a consistent way with the thermal desorption spectra of the hydrogen-iron system. Heats of molecular adsorption calculated are ?32.88, ?35.68 and ?49.57 kJ/mol for the iron (110), (100), and (111) surfaces, respectively. Heats of dissociative adsorption calculated are ?54.40, ?75.30 and ?87.90 kJ/mol for the three states on the iron (111) surface; ?51.21 and ? 73.62 kJ/mol for the two states on the iron (100) surface; and ?63.78 kJ/mol for the one state on the iron (110) surface. Activation energies for dissociative adsorption were found to be small or zero for the iron (111) surface while non-zero activation energies of 49.27 and 45.05 kJ/mol were calculated for the iron (100) and (110) surfaces, respectively. The FeH single-order bond energy has been calculated to be 298.2 kJ/mol. The radius of the hydrogen surface atom has been estimated to be 1.52 × 10^?10 m consistent with the expected size of an H^? ion. The elimination of certain surface sites for molecular adsorption as a result of the ferromagnetism of iron is suggested by the calculation. The reason for the absence of well defined LEED patterns for hydrogen adsorption on the iron (111) and (100) surfaces [Bozso et al., Appl. Surface Sci. 1 (1977) 103] is explained on the basis of the size of the H^? surface ion. The adsorption of hydrogen on the iron (110) surface is consistent with a relatively stable, small-sized H⁺₂ surface ion giving, therefore, a regular LEED pattern and a positive surface potential upon adsorption of hydrogen on this surface.     

H2 分子在Li3N(110)表面吸附的第一性原理研究

采用第一性原理方法研究了H₂分子在Li₃N(110)晶面的表面吸附. 通过研究H₂/Li₃N(110)体系的吸附位置、吸附能和电子结构发现: H₂分子吸附在N桥位要比吸附在其他位置稳定,此时在Li₃N(110)面形成两个-NH基,其吸附能为1.909 eV,属于强化学吸附;H₂与Li₃N(110)面的相互作用主要是H 1s轨道与N 关键词： 第一性原理 3N(110)')" href="#">Li₃N(110) 2')" href="#">H₂ 吸附和解离     

NH3在Ni/Pt(111)和Ni/WC(001)表面上分解的第一性原理研究

采用密度泛函理论和slab模型,研究NH₃在Ni单原子层覆盖的Pt（111）和WC（001）表面上的物理与化学行为,计算了Ni单原子覆盖表面的电子结构以及NH₃的吸附与分解.表面覆盖的单原子层中,Ni原子的性质与Ni（111）面上的Ni原子明显不同.与Ni（111）相比,Ni/Pt（111）和Ni/WC（001）表面上Ni原子dz²轨道上的电子更多地转移到了其它位置,该轨道上电荷密度降低有利于NH₃吸附.在Ni/Pt（111）和Ni/WC（001）面上NH₃吸附能均大于Ni（111）,NH₃分子第一个N-H键断裂的活化能则明显比Ni（111）面上低,有利于NH₃的分解,吸附能增大使NH₃在Ni/Pt（111）和Ni/WC（001）面上更倾向于分解,而不是脱附.N₂分子的生成是NH₃分解的速控步骤,该反应能垒较高,说明N₂分子只有在较高温度下才能生成.WC与Pt性质相似,但Ni/Pt（111）和Ni/WC（001）的电子结构还是有差异的,与Ni（111）表面相比,NH₃在Ni/Pt（111）表面上分解速控步骤的能垒降低,而在Ni/WC（001）上却升高.要获得活性好且便宜的催化剂,需要对Ni/WC（001）表面做进一步改进,降低N₂分子生成步骤的活化能.     

Reactive molecular dynamic simulations of hydrocarbon dissociations on Ni(111) surfaces

Empirical potential parameters for H, C and Ni elements have been developed for the ReaxFF force field in order to study the decomposition of small hydrocarbon molecules on nickel using molecular dynamics simulations. These parameters were optimized using the geometrical and energetic information obtained from density functional (DFT) calculations on a subset of hydrogen and methane reactions with nickel (111) surfaces. The resulting force field was then used to obtain a molecular perspective of the dynamics of the methane dissociative adsorption on Ni(111) as well as two other small alkane molecules, ethane and n-butane. NVT simulations of dissociative adsorption of methane over a range of temperatures enabled the estimation of the sticking coefficient for the adsorption as well as the activation energy of the first C–H bond breaking. The rate constants of each elementary step (both forward and reverse) of CH_x dissociation on Ni(111) were obtained by monitoring the surface species and a microkinetic model was constructed as a result. Qualitative analyses of the simulations of ethane and n-butane decompositions on Ni(111) demonstrate that such reactive MD technique can also be used to obtain useful information on complex reaction networks.     

Adsorption and dissociation of H2 on the Cu2O(1 1 1) surface: A density functional theory study

Interactions of atomic and molecular hydrogen with perfect and deficient Cu₂O(1 1 1) surfaces have been investigated by density functional theory. Different kinds of possible modes of H and H₂ adsorbed on the Cu₂O(1 1 1) surface and possible dissociation pathways were examined. The calculated results indicate that O_SUF, Cu_CUS and O_vacancy sites are the adsorption active centers for H adsorbed on the Cu₂O(1 1 1) surface, and for H₂ adsorption over perfect surface, Cu_CUS site is the most advantageous position with the side-on type of H₂. For H₂ adsorption over deficient surface, two adsorption models of H₂, H₂ adsorbing perpendicularly over O_vacancy site and H₂ lying flatly over singly-coordinate Cu-Cu short bridge, are typical of non-energy-barrier dissociative adsorption leading to one atomic H completely inserted into the crystal lattice and the other bounded to Cu_CUS atom, suggesting that the dissociative adsorption of H₂ is the main dissociation pathway of H₂ on the Cu₂O(1 1 1) surface. Our calculation result is consistent with that of the experimental observation. Therefore, Cu₂O(1 1 1) surface with oxygen vacancy exhibits a strong chemical reactivity towards the dissociation of H₂.     

First-principles study of O2 adsorption on the α-U(001) surface

First-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) have been performed to investigate the adsorption structures and electronic properties for O₂ on the α-U(001) surface. It was found that O₂ tends to dissociate with significant energetic preference compared to molecular adsorption. When approaching the surface perpendicularly along top site, the O₂ adsorbates were found to remain as molecule on the surface. The density of states of the system showed strong hybridization features for O2p, U6d and U5f states in the case of dissociative adsorption which is weaker for molecular adsorption. Further electronic properties analysis demonstrated that the bonding character of U–O bond is related to the symmetry of the adsorption site. Top site configuration showed stronger covalent component for the U–O bond, while the ionic character was found to be more obvious for hollow site adsorption.     

Hydrogen adsorption and storage of Ca-decorated graphene with topological defects: A first-principles study

As a candidate for hydrogen storage medium, geometric stability and hydrogen capacity of Ca-decorated graphene with topological defects are investigated using the first-principle based on density functional theory (DFT), specifically for the experimentally realizable single carbon vacancy (SV), 585 double carbon vacancy (585 DCV) and 555–777 double carbon vacancy (555–777 DCV) defects. It is found that Ca atom can be stabilized on above defective graphenes since Ca׳s binding energy on vacancy defect is much larger than its cohesive energy. Up to six H₂ molecules can stably bind to a Ca atom on defective graphene with the average adsorption energies of 0.17–0.39 eV/H₂. The hybridization of the Ca-3d orbitals with H₂-σorbitals and the electrostatic interaction between the Ca cation and the induced H₂ dipole both contribute to the H₂ molecules binding. Double-side Ca-decorated graphene with 585 DCV and 555–777 DCV defects can theoretically reach a gravimetric capacity of 5.2 wt% hydrogen, indicating that Ca-decorated defective graphene can be used as a promising material for high density hydrogen storage.