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Le TD, Kim DS, Tran TV, Urupalli B, Shin GS, Oh GJ, Yu YT. Electronic Structure Engineering of Pt-Ni Alloy NPs by Coupling of Gold Single Atoms on N-Doped Carbon for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2311971. [PMID: 38727202 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
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Improving the catalytic activity and durability of platinum-based alloy catalysts remains a formidable challenge in the context of renewable energy electrolysis applications. Herein, a facile and rapid photochemical deposition strategy for the synthesis of gold single atoms (Au SAs) anchored on N-doped carbon is presented. These Au SAs serve as a charge redistribution support for Pt-Ni alloy nanoparticles (PtNiNPs/AuSA-NDC), creating an extended electron-donating interface with Pt-Ni alloy sites. Consequently, the PtNiNPs/AuSA-NDC hybrid catalyst manifests exceptional catalytic performance and durability in both the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) under acidic conditions. Specifically, in ORR, it exhibits a half-wave potential (0.92 V vs RHE), with a mass activity 20.4 times superior to Pt/C at 0.9 V. In HER, PtNiNPs/AuSA-NDC demonstrates a notably reduced overpotential of 19.1 mV vs RHE at 10 mA cm-2 and a mass activity 38 times higher than Pt/C (at 0.25 mV). Furthermore, this hybrid catalyst displays outstanding durability, with only an 8.0 mV decay observed for ORR and a 6.9 mV decay for HER after 10 000 cycles. Theoretical calculations provide insight into the mechanism, demonstrating that isolated Au sites effectively modulate the electronic structure of Pt-Ni alloy sites, facilitating intermediate adsorption and enhancing reaction kinetics.
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- Thanh Duc Le
- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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- Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Research Center for Advanced Materials Development, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea
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Adams J, Chen H, Ricciardulli T, Vijayaraghavan S, Sampath A, Flaherty DW. Distinct Site Motifs Activate O 2 and H 2 on Supported Au Nanoparticles in Liquid Water. ACS Catal 2024; 14:3248-3265. [PMID: 38449529 PMCID: PMC10913054 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c05072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Au nanoparticles catalyze the activation and conversion of small molecules with rates and kinetic barriers that depend on the dimensions of the nanoparticle, composition of the support, and presence of catalytically culpable water molecules that solvate these interfaces. Here, molecular interpretations of steady-state rate measurements, kinetic isotope effects, and structural characterizations reveal how the interface of Au nanoparticles, liquid water, and metal oxide supports mediate the kinetically relevant activation of H2 and sequential reduction of O2-derived intermediates during the formation of H2O2 and H2O. Rates of H2 consumption are 10-100 fold greater on Au nanoparticles supported on metal oxides (e.g., titania) compared to more inert and hydrophobic materials (carbon, boron nitride). Similarly, Au nanoparticles on reducible and Lewis acidic supports (e.g., lanthana) bind dioxygen intermediates more strongly and present lower barriers (<22 kJ mol-1) for O-O bond dissociation than inert interfaces formed with silica (>70 kJ mol-1). Selectivities for H2O2 formation increase significantly as the diameters of the Au nanoparticles increase because differences in nanoparticle size change the relative fractions of exposed sites that exist at Au-support interfaces. In contrast, site-normalized rates and barriers for H2 activation depend weakly on the size of Au nanoparticles and the associated differences in active site motifs. These findings suggest that H2O aids the activation of H2 at sites present across all surface Au atoms when nanoparticles are solvated by water. However, molecular O2 preferentially binds and dissociates at Au-support interfaces, leading to greater structure sensitivity for barriers of O-O dissociation across different support identities and sizes of Au nanoparticles. These insights differ from prior knowledge from studies of gas-phase reactions of H2 and O2 upon Au nanoparticle catalysts within dilute vapor pressures of water (10-4 to 0.1 kPa H2O), in which catalysis occurs at the perimeter of the Au-support interface. In contrast, contacting Au catalysts with liquid water (55.5 M H2O) expands catalysis to all surface Au atoms and enables appreciable H2O2 formation.
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- Jason
S. Adams
- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States
- School
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States
- School
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, United States
- School
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Wu X, Steinmann SN, Michel C. Gaussian attractive potential for carboxylate/cobalt surface interactions. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:164115. [PMID: 37902224 DOI: 10.1063/5.0173351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
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Ligand-decorated metal surfaces play a pivotal role in various areas of chemistry, particularly in selective catalysis. Molecular dynamics simulations at the molecular mechanics level of theory are best adapted to gain complementary insights to experiments regarding the structure and dynamics of such organic films. However, standard force fields tend to capture only weak physisorption interactions. This is inadequate for ligands that are strongly adsorbed such as carboxylates on metal surfaces. To address this limitation, we employ the Gaussian Lennard-Jones (GLJ) potential, which incorporates an attractive Gaussian potential between the surface and ligand atoms. Here, we develop this approach for the interaction between cobalt surfaces and carboxylate ligands. The accuracy of the GLJ approach is validated through the analysis of the interaction of oxygen with two distinct cobalt surfaces. The accuracy of this method reaches a root mean square deviation (RMSD) of about 3 kcal/mol across all probed configurations, which corresponds to a percentage error of roughly 4%. Application of the GLJ force field to the dynamics of the organic layer on these surfaces reveals how the ligand concentration influences the film order, and highlights differing mobility in the x and y directions, attributable to surface corrugation on Co(112̄0). GLJ is versatile, suitable for a broad range of metal/ligand systems, and can, subsequently, be utilized to study the organic film on the adsorption/desorption of reactants and products during a catalytic process.
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- Xiaojing Wu
- École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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- École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, 46 allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France
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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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Steinmann SN, Michel C. How to Gain Atomistic Insights on Reactions at the Water/Solid Interface? ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c00594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Stephan N. Steinmann
- 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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Muñoz-Santiburcio D, Marx D. Confinement-Controlled Aqueous Chemistry within Nanometric Slit Pores. Chem Rev 2021; 121:6293-6320. [PMID: 34006106 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In this Focus Review, we put the spotlight on very recent insights into the fascinating world of wet chemistry in the realm offered by nanoconfinement of water in mechanically rather rigid and chemically inert planar slit pores wherein only monolayer and bilayer water lamellae can be hosted. We review the effect of confinement on different aspects such as hydrogen bonding, ion diffusion, and charge defect migration of H+(aq) and OH-(aq) in nanoconfined water depending on slit pore width. A particular focus is put on the strongly modulated local dielectric properties as quantified in terms of anisotropic polarization fluctuations across such extremely confined water films and their putative effects on chemical reactions therein. The stunning findings disclosed only recently extend wet chemistry in particular and solvation science in general toward extreme molecular confinement conditions.
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- Daniel Muñoz-Santiburcio
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany.,CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Wei Q, Yu C, Song X, Zhong Y, Ni L, Ren Y, Guo W, Yu J, Qiu J. Recognition of Water-Induced Effects toward Enhanced Interaction between Catalyst and Reactant in Alcohol Oxidation. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:6071-6078. [PMID: 33829778 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pickering emulsion stabilized by solid nanoparticles provides a diverse solvent microenvironment and enables to promote the phase transfer of reaction substrates/products in catalytic reactions, but the intrinsic role of solvent is still not clear. Herein, using benzyl alcohol (BA) as a model reactant, we demonstrate the nature of the water-promoted activity for alcohol oxidation over the Pd/MgAl-LDO catalyst. Depending on the water in the solvent, we observe different reactivities regarding the proportion of the water in the system. Kinetic isotope effects confirm the participation and positive effects of water for oxidation of BA. The water promotion effects are recognized and identified by the water vapor pulse adsorption coupled with temperature program desorption. Moreover, the adsorption behavior of BA or benzaldehyde at the interface of water and Pd/MgAl-LDO is also investigated by quasi-in-situ Raman spectroscopy. In addition, the mechanism of water-promoted alcohol oxidation is rationally proposed based on the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism. The general applicability of the water promotion effects is further demonstrated over different supports and substrates, which well achieves excellent catalytic activity and selectivity in Pickering emulsion compared to that in the pure toluene system.
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- Qianbing Wei
- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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Zare M, Saleheen M, Kundu SK, Heyden A. Dependency of solvation effects on metal identity in surface reactions. Commun Chem 2020; 3:187. [PMID: 36703410 PMCID: PMC9814277 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-020-00428-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Solvent interactions with adsorbed moieties involved in surface reactions are often believed to be similar for different metal surfaces. However, solvents alter the electronic structures of surface atoms, which in turn affects their interaction with adsorbed moieties. To reveal the importance of metal identity on aqueous solvent effects in heterogeneous catalysis, we studied solvent effects on the activation free energies of the O-H and C-H bond cleavages of ethylene glycol over the (111) facet of six transition metals (Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Au) using an explicit solvation approach based on a hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) description of the potential energy surface. A significant metal dependence on aqueous solvation effects was observed that suggests solvation effects must be studied in detail for every reaction system. The main reason for this dependence could be traced back to a different amount of charge-transfer between the adsorbed moieties and metals in the reactant and transition states for the different metal surfaces.
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- Mehdi Zare
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 301 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 301 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 301 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 301 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, USA.
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