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Di Liberto G, Pacchioni G. Modeling Single-Atom Catalysis. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2307150. [PMID: 37749881 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Electronic structure calculations represent an essential complement of experiments to characterize single-atom catalysts (SACs), consisting of isolated metal atoms stabilized on a support, but also to predict new catalysts. However, simulating SACs with quantum chemistry approaches is not as simple as often assumed. In this work, the essential factors that characterize a reliable simulation of SACs activity are examined. The Perspective focuses on the importance of precise atomistic characterization of the active site, since even small changes in the metal atom's surroundings can result in large changes in reactivity. The dynamical behavior and stability of SACs under working conditions, as well as the importance of adopting appropriate methods to solve the Schrödinger equation for a quantitative evaluation of reaction energies are addressed. The Perspective also focuses on the relevance of the model adopted. For electrocatalysis this must include the effects of the solvent, the presence of electrolytes, the pH, and the external potential. Finally, it is discussed how the similarities between SACs and coordination compounds may result in reaction intermediates that usually are not observed on metal electrodes. When these aspects are not adequately considered, the predictive power of electronic structure calculations is quite limited.
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- Giovanni Di Liberto
- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 55, Milano, 20125, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 55, Milano, 20125, Italy
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Romeo E, Illas F, Calle-Vallejo F. Evaluating Adsorbate-Solvent Interactions: Are Dispersion Corrections Necessary? THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2023; 127:10134-10139. [PMID: 37284294 PMCID: PMC10241112 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Incorporating solvent-adsorbate interactions is paramount in models of aqueous (electro)catalytic reactions. Although a number of techniques exist, they are either highly demanding in computational terms or inaccurate. Microsolvation offers a trade-off between accuracy and computational expenses. Here, we dissect a method to swiftly outline the first solvation shell of species adsorbed on transition-metal surfaces and assess their corresponding solvation energy. Interestingly, dispersion corrections are generally not needed in the model, but caution is to be exercised when water-water and water-adsorbate interactions are of similar magnitude.
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- Eleonora Romeo
- Departament
de Ciència de Materials i Química Física &
Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament
de Ciència de Materials i Química Física &
Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Nano-Bio
Spectroscopy Group and European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
(ETSF), Department of Polymers and Advanced Materials: Physics, Chemistry
and Technology, University of the Basque
Country UPV/EHU, Av. Tolosa 72, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza de Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Calle-Vallejo F. The ABC of Generalized Coordination Numbers and Their Use as a Descriptor in Electrocatalysis. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023:e2207644. [PMID: 37102632 PMCID: PMC10369287 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202207644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The quest for enhanced electrocatalysts can be boosted by descriptor-based analyses. Because adsorption energies are the most common descriptors, electrocatalyst design is largely based on brute-force routines that comb materials databases until an energetic criterion is verified. In this review, it is shown that an alternative is provided by generalized coordination numbers (denoted by CN ¯ $\overline {{\rm{CN}}} $ or GCN), an inexpensive geometric descriptor for strained and unstrained transition metals and some alloys. CN ¯ $\overline {{\rm{CN}}} $ captures trends in adsorption energies on both extended surfaces and nanoparticles and is used to elaborate structure-sensitive electrocatalytic activity plots and selectivity maps. Importantly, CN ¯ $\overline {{\rm{CN}}} $ outlines the geometric configuration of the active sites, thereby enabling an atom-by-atom design, which is not possible using energetic descriptors. Specific examples for various adsorbates (e.g., *OH, *OOH, *CO, and *H), metals (e.g., Pt and Cu), and electrocatalytic reactions (e.g., O2 reduction, H2 evolution, CO oxidation, and reduction) are presented, and comparisons are made against other descriptors.
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- Federico Calle-Vallejo
- Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group and European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Department of Advanced Materials and Polymers: Physics, Chemistry and Technology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 20018, Av. Tolosa 72, San Sebastián, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza de Euskadi 5, Bilbao, 48009, Spain
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Di Liberto G, Giordano L. Role of solvation model on the stability of oxygenates on Pt(111): A comparison between microsolvation, extended bilayer, and extended metal/water interface. ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/elsa.202100204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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- Department of Materials Science University of Milano‐Bicocca Milano Italy
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Hanselman S, Koper MTM, Calle-Vallejo F. Using micro-solvation and generalized coordination numbers to estimate the solvation energies of adsorbed hydroxyl on metal nanoparticles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:3211-3219. [PMID: 36625180 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04785c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Solvent-adsorbate interactions have a great impact on catalytic processes in aqueous systems. Implicit solvent calculations are inexpensive but inaccurate toward hydrogen bonds, while a full incorporation of explicit solvation is computationally demanding. Micro-solvation attempts to break this dilemma by including only those solvent molecules directly interacting with the solute and any nearby interfaces, thereby providing a compromise between accuracy and computational expenses. Here, we show that micro-solvation of *OH and its relation to adsorption sites is largely transferable across late transition metal nanoparticles. Solvation energies for *OH on nanoparticles of Ir, Pd, and Pt range from -0.63 ± 0.04 eV to -0.67 ± 0.12 eV, while those on Au and Ag are -0.75 ± 0.07 eV and -1.01 ± 0.05 eV, respectively. These results enable the use of average solvation corrections for *OH on late transition metal nanostructures.
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- Selwyn Hanselman
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group and European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Department of Polymers and Advanced Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Technology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Av. Tolosa 72, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza de Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain.,Department of Materials Science and Chemical Physics & Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTC), University de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Clabaut P, Beisert M, Michel C, Steinmann SN. Beyond single-crystal surfaces: The GAL21 water/metal force field. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:194705. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0130368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Solvent effects are notoriously difficult to describe for metallic nanoparticles (NPs). Here, we introduce GAL21 which is the first pairwise additive force field that is specifically designed to modulate the near chemisorption energy of water as a function of the coordination numbers of the metallic atoms. We find a quadratic dependence to be most suitable for capturing the dependence of the adsorption energy of water on the generalized coordination number (GCN) of the metal atoms. GAL21 has been fitted against DFT adsorption energies for Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pd, Pt, and Co on 500 configurations and validated on about 3000 configurations for each metal, constructed on five surfaces with GCNs varying from 2.5 to 11.25. Depending on the metals, the root mean square deviation is found between 0.7 kcal mol−1 (Au) to 1.6 kcal mol−1 (Ni). Using GAL21, as implemented in the open-source code CP2K, we then evaluate the solvation energy of Au55 and Pt55 NPs in water using thermodynamic integration. The solvation free energy is found to be larger for Pt than for Au and systematically larger than 200 kcal mol−1, demonstrating the large impact of solvent on the surface energetics of NPs. Still, given that the amorphous NPs are both, the most stable and the most solvated ones, we do not predict a change in the preferred morphology between the gas-phase and in water. Finally, based on a linear regression on three sizes of NPs (from 38 to 147), the solvation energy for Au and Pt surface atoms is found to be −5.2 and −9.9 kcal mol−1, respectively.
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- Paul Clabaut
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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Realistic Modelling of Dynamics at Nanostructured Interfaces Relevant to Heterogeneous Catalysis. Catalysts 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/catal12010052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The focus of this short review is directed towards investigations of the dynamics of nanostructured metallic heterogeneous catalysts and the evolution of interfaces during reaction—namely, the metal–gas, metal–liquid, and metal–support interfaces. Indeed, it is of considerable interest to know how a metal catalyst surface responds to gas or liquid adsorption under reaction conditions, and how its structure and catalytic properties evolve as a function of its interaction with the support. This short review aims to offer the reader a birds-eye view of state-of-the-art methods that enable more realistic simulation of dynamical phenomena at nanostructured interfaces by exploiting resource-efficient methods and/or the development of computational hardware and software.
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Farkaš B, de Leeuw NH. A Perspective on Modelling Metallic Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: From Monometals to Nanoalloys and Ligand-Protected Particles. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 14:3611. [PMID: 34203371 PMCID: PMC8269646 DOI: 10.3390/ma14133611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The focus of this review is on the physical and magnetic properties that are related to the efficiency of monometallic magnetic nanoparticles used in biomedical applications, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia, and how to model these by theoretical methods, where the discussion is based on the example of cobalt nanoparticles. Different simulation systems (cluster, extended slab, and nanoparticle models) are critically appraised for their efficacy in the determination of reactivity, magnetic behaviour, and ligand-induced modifications of relevant properties. Simulations of the effects of nanoscale alloying with other metallic phases are also briefly reviewed.
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- Barbara Farkaš
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK;
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK;
- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Nair AS, Pathak B. Computational strategies to address the catalytic activity of nanoclusters. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Akhil S. Nair
- Discipline of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Indore Indore Madhya Pradesh India
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- Discipline of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Indore Indore Madhya Pradesh India
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Collinge G, Yuk SF, Nguyen MT, Lee MS, Glezakou VA, Rousseau R. Effect of Collective Dynamics and Anharmonicity on Entropy in Heterogenous Catalysis: Building the Case for Advanced Molecular Simulations. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Greg Collinge
- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Clabaut P, Fleurat-Lessard P, Michel C, Steinmann SN. Ten Facets, One Force Field: The GAL19 Force Field for Water-Noble Metal Interfaces. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:4565-4578. [PMID: 32413265 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding the structure of the water/metal interfaces plays an important role in many areas ranging from surface chemistry to environmental processes. The size, required phase-space sampling, and the slow diffusion of molecules at the water/metal interfaces motivate the development of accurate force fields. We develop and parametrize GAL19, a novel force field, to describe the interaction of water with two facets (111 and 100) of five metals (Pt, Pd, Au, Ag, Cu). To increase transferability compared to its predecessor GAL17, the water-metal interaction is described as a sum of pairwise terms. The interaction energy has three contributions: (i) physisorption is described via a Tang and Toennies potential, (ii) chemisorption and surface corrugation rely on an attractive Gaussian term, and (iii) the angular dependence is explicitly included as a truncated Fourier series. Thirteen parameters are used for each metal surface and were fitted on 250 water adsorption energies computed at the PBE+dDsC level. The performance of GAL19 was evaluated on a set of more than 600 DFT adsorption energies for each surface, leading to an average root-mean-square deviation of only 1 kcal/mol, correctly reproducing the adsorption trends: strong on Pt and Pd but weaker on Ag, Au, and Cu. This force field was then used to simulate the water/metal interface for all ten surfaces for 1 ns. Structural analyses reveal similar tendencies for all surfaces: a first, dense water layer that is mostly adsorbed on the metal top sites and a second layer up to around 6 Å, which is less structured. On Pt and Pd, the first layer is strongly organized with water lying flat on the surface. The pairwise additive functional form allows one to simulate the water adsorption on alloys, which is demonstrated at the example of Ag/Cu and Au/Pt alloys. The water/Ag-Cu interface is predicted to be disordered with water mostly adsorbed on Cu which should exacerbate the Ag reactivity. On the contrary, incorporating Pt into Au materials leads to a structuring of the water interface. Our promising results make GAL19 an ideal candidate to get representative sampling of complex metal/water interfaces as a first step toward accurate estimation of free energies of reactions in solution at the metal interface.
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- Paul Clabaut
- Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratorie de Chimie, 46 allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne (ICMUB), UMR CNRS 6302, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), 9 avenue Alain Savary 21078 Dijon, France
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- Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratorie de Chimie, 46 allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratorie de Chimie, 46 allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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Granda-Marulanda LP, Builes S, Koper MTM, Calle-Vallejo F. Influence of Van der Waals Interactions on the Solvation Energies of Adsorbates at Pt-Based Electrocatalysts. Chemphyschem 2019; 20:2968-2972. [PMID: 31348598 PMCID: PMC6899950 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Revised: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Solvation can significantly modify the adsorption energy of species at surfaces, thereby influencing the performance of electrocatalysts and liquid‐phase catalysts. Thus, it is important to understand adsorbate solvation at the nanoscale. Here we evaluate the effect of van der Waals (vdW) interactions described by different approaches on the solvation energy of *OH adsorbed on near‐surface alloys (NSAs) of Pt. Our results show that the studied functionals can be divided into two groups, each with rather similar average *OH solvation energies: (1) PBE and PW91; and (2) vdW functionals, RPBE, PBE‐D3 and RPBE‐D3. On average, *OH solvation energies are less negative by ∼0.14 eV in group (2) compared to (1), and the values for a given alloy can be extrapolated from one functional to another within the same group. Depending on the desired level of accuracy, these concrete observations and our tabulated values can be used to rapidly incorporate solvation into models for electrocatalysis and liquid‐phase catalysis.
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- Departamento de Ingeniería de Procesos, Universidad EAFIT, Carrera 49 No 7 sur - 50, 050022, Medellín, Colombia
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física & Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Ma H, Li S, Wang H, Schneider WF. Water-Mediated Reduction of Aqueous N-Nitrosodimethylamine with Pd. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:7551-7563. [PMID: 31244058 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b01425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Pd-catalyzed reduction has emerged as a promising treatment strategy to remove the recalcitrant disinfection byproduct N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). However, the reaction pathways remain unexplored, and questions remain about how water solvent influences NDMA reduction mechanisms and selectivity. Here, we compute the energies and barriers of all relevant elementary steps in NDMA reduction by H2 on Pd(111) using density functional theory. We further calculate water-assisted H-shuttling for all hydrogenation reactions explicitly and include water solvation for all elementary reactions implicitly. We parametrize microkinetic models to predict product formation rates and selectivities over a wide range of NDMA concentrations. We show that H2O-mediated H-shuttling lowers the reaction barriers for all hydrogenation reactions involved in NDMA reduction while implicit solvation has negligible impact on the reaction and activation energies. We further conduct batch experiments with SiO2-supported Pd nanoparticles and compare them with the microkinetic models. The predicted rates, selectivity, and apparent activation energy from the model parametrized with both explicit H2O-mediated H-shuttling and implicit solvation correspond well with experimental observations. Models that ignore water as an H-shuttle or solvent fail to recover the experimental rates and apparent activation energy. We identified the rate-determining steps of the reaction and show the reaction flow pathways of the complicated reaction network. Finally, we demonstrate that water-mediated H-shuttling changes the rate-determining steps and reaction flows of elementary reactions.
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- Hanyu Ma
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame , Indiana 46556 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame , Indiana 46556 , United States
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- School of Environmental Science and Technology , Nankai University , Tianjin 300350 , PR China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame , Indiana 46556 , United States
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Theory and experiments join forces to characterize the electrocatalytic interface. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:7611-7613. [PMID: 30923115 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903412116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chan CH, Poignant F, Beuve M, Dumont E, Loffreda D. A Water Solvation Shell Can Transform Gold Metastable Nanoparticles in the Fluxional Regime. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:1092-1098. [PMID: 30707843 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Solvated gold nanoparticles have been modeled in the fluxional regime by density functional theory including dispersion forces for an extensive set of conventional morphologies. The study of isolated adsorption of one water molecule shows that the most stable adsorption forms are similar (corners and edges) regardless of the nanoparticle shape and size, although the adsorption strength differs significantly (0.15 eV). When a complete and explicit water solvation shell interacts with gold nanoclusters, metastable in vacuum and presenting a predominance of (100) square facets (ino-decahedra Au55 and Au147), these nanoparticles are found unstable and transform into the closest morphologies exhibiting mainly (111) triangular facets and symmetries. The corresponding adsorption strength per water molecule becomes independent of shape and size and is enhanced by the formation of two hydrogen bonds on average. For applications in radiotherapy, this study suggests that the shapes of small gold nanoparticles should be homogenized by interacting with the biological environment.
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- Chen-Hui Chan
- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , Laboratoire de Chimie, F-69342 Lyon , France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS5822/IN2P3, IPNL, PRISME, PHABIO, Villeurbanne 69322 , France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS5822/IN2P3, IPNL, PRISME, PHABIO, Villeurbanne 69322 , France
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- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , Laboratoire de Chimie, F-69342 Lyon , France
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- Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , Laboratoire de Chimie, F-69342 Lyon , France
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Selective hydrogenation of polyunsaturated hydrocarbons and unsaturated aldehydes over bimetallic catalysts. ADVANCES IN CATALYSIS 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.acat.2019.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Varghese JJ, Mushrif SH. Origins of complex solvent effects on chemical reactivity and computational tools to investigate them: a review. REACT CHEM ENG 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8re00226f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Origins of solvent-induced enhancement in catalytic reactivity and product selectivity are discussed with computational methods to study them.
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- Jithin John Varghese
- Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) Ltd
- Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)
- Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- University of Alberta
- Edmonton
- Canada
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Schweitzer B, Steinmann SN, Michel C. Can microsolvation effects be estimated from vacuum computations? A case-study of alcohol decomposition at the H2O/Pt(111) interface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:5368-5377. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp06331a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Activation and reaction energies of alcohol decomposition at Pt(111) are barely modified by a PCM, in contrast to adding a single water molecule, whose effect can be predicted based on vacuum computations.
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- Benjamin Schweitzer
- Univ Lyon
- Ens de Lyon
- CNRS UMR 5182
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- Laboratoire de Chimie
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- Univ Lyon
- Ens de Lyon
- CNRS UMR 5182
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- Laboratoire de Chimie
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- Univ Lyon
- Ens de Lyon
- CNRS UMR 5182
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- Laboratoire de Chimie
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Steinmann SN, Ferreira De Morais R, Götz AW, Fleurat-Lessard P, Iannuzzi M, Sautet P, Michel C. Force Field for Water over Pt(111): Development, Assessment, and Comparison. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:3238-3251. [PMID: 29660272 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Metal/water interfaces are key in many natural and industrial processes, such as corrosion, atmospheric, or environmental chemistry. Even today, the only practical approach to simulate large interfaces between a metal and water is to perform force-field simulations. In this work, we propose a novel force field, GAL17, to describe the interaction of water and a Pt(111) surface. GAL17 builds on three terms: (i) a standard Lennard-Jones potential for the bonding interaction between the surface and water, (ii) a Gaussian term to improve the surface corrugation, and (iii) two terms describing the angular dependence of the interaction energy. The 12 parameters of this force field are fitted against a set of 210 adsorption geometries of water on Pt(111). The performance of GAL17 is compared to several other approaches that have not been validated against extensive first-principles computations yet. Their respective accuracy is evaluated on an extended set of 802 adsorption geometries of H2O on Pt(111), 52 geometries derived from icelike layers, and an MD simulation of an interface between a c(4 × 6) Pt(111) surface and a water layer of 14 Å thickness. The newly developed GAL17 force field provides a significant improvement over previously existing force fields for Pt(111)/H2O interactions. Its well-balanced performance suggests that it is an ideal candidate to generate relevant geometries for the metal/water interface, paving the way to a representative sampling of the equilibrium distribution at the interface and to predict solvation free energies at the solid/liquid interface.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephan N Steinmann
- Univ Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon , CNRS Université Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182 , 46 allée d'Italie , F-69364 Lyon , France
| | - Rodrigo Ferreira De Morais
- Univ Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon , CNRS Université Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182 , 46 allée d'Italie , F-69364 Lyon , France
| | - Andreas W Götz
- San Diego Supercomputer Center , University of California San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093 , United States
| | - Paul Fleurat-Lessard
- Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne (ICMUB, UMR 6302, CNRS) , Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté , 9 Avenue Alain Savary , 21078 Dijon , France
| | - Marcella Iannuzzi
- Institut für Chemie , University of Zurich , Winterthurerstrasse 190 , CH-8057 Zurich , Switzerland
| | | | - Carine Michel
- Univ Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon , CNRS Université Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182 , 46 allée d'Italie , F-69364 Lyon , France
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