The Role of Preadsorbed Atomic Hydrogen in the NO Dissociation on a Zigzag Stepped Gold Surface: A DFT Study
The Role of Preadsorbed Atomic Hydrogen in the NO Dissociation on a Zigzag Stepped Gold Surface: A DFT Study
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DOI:
10.1021/jp901266g
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发表时间:
2009-04
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3.7
通讯作者:
José L. C. Fajín;M. Cordeiro;J. R. Gomes
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作者:
José L. C. Fajín;M. Cordeiro;J. R. Gomes
NO dissociation with and without the presence of hydrogen on the Au(321) surface was investigated using density functional theory and a periodic supercell approach. The role of hydrogen in the reaction of NO dissociation is studied by comparing four different routes (i.e. direct dissociation of NO on the clean surface and paths involving reaction with hydrogen adatoms prior to N−O bond cleavage). In the latter situation, two routes via a NOH intermediate were considered, producing N* + OH* or N* + H2O*, and another route via a NHOH intermediate was also considered, yielding NH* and OH* species. The calculations predict that the kinetically most favorable route is that producing nitrogen adatoms and water, i.e., NO* + 2H* → N* + H2O* via the NOH* intermediate. This reaction is exothermic (1.1 eV) and the energy barriers for the separate NO* + H* → NOH* and NOH* + H* → N* + H2O* reactions are ∼0.5 eV. An identical energy barrier was calculated for the reaction of the dissociation of molecular hydrogen on th...