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Pantaleone S, Corno M, Rimola A, Balucani N, Ugliengo P. Computational Study on the Water Corrosion Process at Schreibersite (Fe 2NiP) Surfaces: from Phosphide to Phosphates. ACS EARTH & SPACE CHEMISTRY 2023; 7:2050-2061. [PMID: 37876665 PMCID: PMC10591503 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
Abstract
Phosphorus (P) is a fundamental element for whatever form of life, in the same way as the other biogenic macroelements (SONCH). The prebiotic origin of P is still a matter of debate, as the phosphates present on earth are trapped in almost insoluble solid matrixes (apatites) and, therefore, hardly available for inclusion in living systems in the prebiotic era. The most accepted theories regard a possible exogenous origin during the Archean Era, through the meteoritic bombardment, when tons of reactive P in the form of phosphide ((Fe,Ni)3P, schreibersite mineral) reached the primordial earth, reacting with water and providing oxygenated phosphorus compounds (including phosphates). In the last 20 years, laboratory experiments demonstrated that the corrosion process of schreibersite by water indeed leads to reactive phosphates that, in turn, react with other biological building blocks (nucleosides and simple sugars) to form more complex molecules (nucleotides and complex sugars). In the present paper, we study the water corrosion of different crystalline surfaces of schreibersite by means of periodic DFT (density functional theory) simulations. Our results show that water adsorbs molecularly on the most stable (110) surface but dissociates on the less stable (001) one, giving rise to further reactivity. Indeed, subsequent water adsorptions, up to the water monolayer coverage, show that, on the (001) surface, iron and nickel atoms are the first species undergoing the corrosion process and, in a second stage, the phosphorus atoms also get involved. When adsorbing up to three and four water molecules per unit cell, the most stable structures found are the phosphite and phosphate forms of phosphorus, respectively. Simulation of the vibrational spectra of the considered reaction products revealed that the experimental band at 2423 cm-1 attributed to the P-H stretching frequency is indeed predicted for a phosphite moiety attached to the schreibersite (001) surface upon chemisorption of up to three water molecules.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefano Pantaleone
- Dipartimento
di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7,, I-10125 Torino, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7,, I-10125 Torino, Italy
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Osservatorio
Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
- Université
Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique
de Grenoble (IPAG), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7,, I-10125 Torino, Italy
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A critical review on transition metal phosphide based catalyst for electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction: Gibbs free energy, composition, stability, and true identity of active site. Coord Chem Rev 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Pantaleone S, Corno M, Rimola A, Balucani N, Ugliengo P. Water Interaction with Fe 2NiP Schreibersite (110) Surface: a Quantum Mechanical Atomistic Perspective. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2022; 126:2243-2252. [PMID: 35145576 PMCID: PMC8819687 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c09947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Phosphorus is an element of primary importance for all living creatures, being present in many biological activities in the form of phosphate (PO4 3-). However, there are still open questions about the origin of this specific element and on the transformation that allowed it to be incorporated in biological systems. The most probable source of prebiotic phosphorus is the intense meteoritic bombardment during the Archean era, a few million years after the solar system formation, which brought tons of iron-phosphide materials (schreibersite) on the early Earth crust. It was recently demonstrated that by simple wetting/corrosion processes from this material, various oxygenated phosphorus compounds are produced. In the present work, the wetting process of schreibersite (Fe2NiP) was studied by computer simulations using density functional theory, with the PBE functional supplemented with dispersive interactions through a posteriori empirical correction. To start disentangling the complexity of the system, only the most stable (110) surface of Fe2NiP was used simulating different water coverages, from which structures, water binding energies, and vibrational spectra have been predicted. The computed (ana-)harmonic infrared spectra have been compared with the experimental ones, thus, confirming the validity of the adopted methodology and models.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefano Pantaleone
- Dipartimento
di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125, Torino, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125, Torino, Italy
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Osservatorio
Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
- Université
Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique
de Grenoble (IPAG), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125, Torino, Italy
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Litasov KD, Bekker TB, Sagatov NE, Gavryushkin PN, Krinitsyn PG, Kuper KE. (Fe,Ni) 2P allabogdanite can be an ambient pressure phase in iron meteorites. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8956. [PMID: 32488079 PMCID: PMC7265559 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66039-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
An orthorhombic modification of (Fe,Ni)2P, allabogdanite, found in iron meteorites was considered to be thermodynamically stable at pressures above 8 GPa and temperatures of 1673 K according to the results of recent static high-pressure and high-temperature experiments. A hexagonal polymorphic modification of (Fe,Ni)2P, barringerite, was considered to be stable at ambient conditions. Experimental investigation through the solid-state synthesis supported by ab initio calculations was carried out to clarify the stability fields of (Fe,Ni)2P polymorphs. Both experimental and theoretical studies show that Fe2P-allabogdanite is a low-temperature phase stable at ambient conditions up to a temperature of at least 773 K and, therefore, is not necessarily associated with high pressures. This is consistent with the textural relationships of allabogdanite in iron meteorites.
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- Konstantin D Litasov
- Vereshchagin Institute for High Pressure Physics RAS, Troitsk, Moscow, 108840, Russia.
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- Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University of Architecture, Design and Arts, Novosibirsk, 630099, Russia
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- Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Wang C, Li C, Han J, Yan L, Deng B, Liu X. The pressure-temperature phase diagram of pure Co based on first-principles calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:22061-22068. [PMID: 28795179 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03775a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We optimized the high pressure-temperature phase diagram of pure Co up to the liquidus temperature and 120 GPa, based on thermodynamic properties calculated using first-principles. The Gibbs energy for each phase was evaluated in the framework of a quasiharmonic approximation, with a consideration of the thermal electronic contribution at finite temperatures. Particularly, the liquidus temperature, as a function of pressure, was determined using classical Molecular Dynamics simulations. Our results in this work successfully integrated experimental observations and the previous theoretical predictions. The critical solid phase transitions of ε → γf and ε → β were clarified using the Gibbs energy as a function of pressure and temperature. In addition, the magnetism of β above 70 GPa was verified to be nonmagnetic. The difference between γp and β, which was unclear before, has been illustrated to be associated with the magnetic transformation from the paramagnetic state of the γp phase to the nonmagnetic state of the β phase rather than the structural transformation.
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- Cuiping Wang
- College of Materials and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Genome, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China.
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