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Faraji S, Liu M. Transferable machine learning interatomic potential for carbon hydrogen systems. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:22346-22358. [PMID: 39140158 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp02300e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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In this study, we developed a machine learning interatomic potential based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to model carbon-hydrogen (C-H) systems. The ANN potential was trained on a dataset of C-H clusters obtained through density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Through comprehensive evaluations against DFT results, including predictions of geometries and formation energies across 0D-3D systems comprising C and C-H, as well as modeling various chemical processes, the ANN potential demonstrated exceptional accuracy and transferability. Its capability to accurately predict lattice dynamics, crucial for stability assessment in crystal structure prediction, was also verified through phonon dispersion analysis. Notably, its accuracy and computational efficiency in calculating force constants facilitated the exploration of complex energy landscapes, leading to the discovery of a novel C polymorph. These results underscore the robustness and versatility of the ANN potential, highlighting its efficacy in advancing computational materials science by conducting precise atomistic simulations on a wide range of C-H materials.
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- Somayeh Faraji
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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Marsal Q, Black-Schaffer AM. Enhanced Quantum Metric due to Vacancies in Graphene. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 133:026002. [PMID: 39073980 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.026002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/31/2024]
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Random vacancies in a graphene monolayer induce defect states that are known to form a narrow impurity band centered around zero energy at half filling. We use a space-resolved formulation of the quantum metric and establish a strong enhancement of the electronic correlations in this impurity band. The enhancement is primarily due to strong correlations between pairs of vacancies situated on different sublattices at anomalously large spatial distances. We trace the strong enhancement to both the multifractal vacancy wave functions, which ties the system exactly at the Anderson insulator transition for all defect concentrations, and preserving the chiral symmetry.
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Albino A, Buonocore F, Celino M, Totti F. The chimera of 2D- and 1D-graphene magnetization by hydrogenation or fluorination: critically revisiting old schemes and proposing new ones by ab initio methods. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2024; 6:1106-1121. [PMID: 38356622 PMCID: PMC10863704 DOI: 10.1039/d3na01008b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Graphene is an ideal candidate material for spintronics due to its layered structure and peculiar electronic structure. However, in its pristine state, the production of magnetic moments is not trivial. A very appealing approach is the chemical modification of pristine graphene. The main obstacle is the control of the geometrical features and the selectivity of functional groups. The lack of a periodic functionalization pattern of the graphene sheet prevents, therefore, the achievement of long-range magnetic order, thus limiting its use in spintronic devices. In such regards, the stability and the magnitude of the instilled magnetic moment depending on the size and shape of in silico designed graphane islands and ribbons embedded in graphene matrix will be computed and analysed. Our findings thus suggest that a novel and magneto-active graphene derivative nanostructure could become achievable more easily than extended graphone or nanoribbons, with a strong potential for future spintronics applications with a variable spin-current density.
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- Andrea Albino
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" & INSTM RU, Università degli Studi di Firenze Via della Lastruccia 3 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) 50019 Italy
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Casaccia Research Centre Roma 00123 Italy
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Casaccia Research Centre Roma 00123 Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" & INSTM RU, Università degli Studi di Firenze Via della Lastruccia 3 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) 50019 Italy
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Nguyen VC, Nimbalkar DB, Hoang Huong V, Lee YL, Teng H. Elucidating the mechanism of photocatalytic reduction of bicarbonate (aqueous CO 2) into formate and other organics. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 649:918-928. [PMID: 37392682 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.06.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/03/2023]
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The photocatalytic reduction of CO2 under solar irradiation is an ideal approach to mitigating global warming, and reducing aqueous forms of CO2 that interact strongly with a catalyst (e.g., HCO3-) is a promising strategy to expedite such reductions. This study uses Pt-deposited graphene oxide dots as a model photocatalyst to elucidate the mechanism of HCO3- reduction. The photocatalyst steadily catalyzes the reduction of an HCO3- solution (at pH = 9) containing an electron donor under 1-sun illumination over a period of 60 h to produce H2 and organic compounds (formate, methanol, and acetate). H2 is derived from solution-contained H2O, which undergoes photocatalytic cleavage to produce •H atoms. Isotopic analysis reveals that all of the organics formed via interactions between HCO3- and •H. This study proposes mechanistic steps, which are governed by the reacting behavior of the •H, to correlate the electron transfer steps and product formation of this photocatalysis. This photocatalysis achieves overall apparent quantum efficiency of 27% in the formation of reaction products under monochromatic irradiation at 420 nm. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of aqueous-phase photocatalysis in converting aqueous CO2 into valuable chemicals and the importance of H2O-derived •H in governing the product selectivity and formation kinetics.
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- Van-Can Nguyen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 100000, Viet Nam
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan; Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan; Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan; Center of Applied Nanomedicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
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Schleder GR, Pizzochero M, Kaxiras E. One-Dimensional Moiré Physics and Chemistry in Heterostrained Bilayer Graphene. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:8853-8858. [PMID: 37755819 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moiré patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers. Here, we propose heterostrained bilayer graphene (hBLG), as an alternative avenue for accessing twist angle-free moiré physics via lattice mismatch. Using atomistic and first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that the uniaxial heterostrain can promote isolated flat electronic bands around the Fermi level. Furthermore, the heterostrain-induced out-of-plane lattice relaxation may lead to a spatially modulated reactivity of the surface layer, paving the way for moiré-driven chemistry and magnetism. We anticipate that our findings can be readily generalized to other layered materials.
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- Gabriel R Schleder
- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
- Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano), CNPEM, 13083-970 Campinas São Paulo, Brazil
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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N-doped Carbon Nanotubes with High Amount of Graphitic Nitrogen as an Excellent Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting in Alkaline Solution. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2023.117160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Apponi A, Betti M, Borghesi M, Boyarsky A, Canci N, Cavoto G, Chang C, Cheianov V, Cheipesh Y, Chung W, Cocco A, Colijn A, D’Ambrosio N, de Groot N, Esposito A, Faverzani M, Ferella A, Ferri E, Ficcadenti L, Frederico T, Gariazzo S, Gatti F, Gentile C, Giachero A, Hochberg Y, Kahn Y, Lisanti M, Mangano G, Marcucci L, Mariani C, Marques M, Menichetti G, Messina M, Mikulenko O, Monticone E, Nucciotti A, Orlandi D, Pandolfi F, Parlati S, Pepe C, Pérez de los Heros C, Pisanti O, Polini M, Polosa A, Puiu A, Rago I, Raitses Y, Rajteri M, Rossi N, Rozwadowska K, Rucandio I, Ruocco A, Strid C, Tan A, Teles L, Tozzini V, Tully C, Viviani M, Zeitler U, Zhao F. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in the PTOLEMY project: A theory update. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.053002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chen X, Sun Y, Wang Y. Stereo- and Regioselectivity of Hydrogenation of a Recently Synthesized Carboncone and Its Predictive Models. J Org Chem 2022; 87:10755-10767. [PMID: 35930495 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Since its atomically precise synthesis in recent experiments, the carboncone molecule presents a novel example of discrete nanocarbons with promising applications, but little is known yet about its chemical properties. In this work, we present a comprehensive computational study on the hydrogenation of carboncone with a varying number of added H atoms (from 1 to 12). Unlike planar benzenoid hydrocarbons, carboncone prefers that all H atoms be added to its external, convex surface. The previous topology-based model for hydrogenated fullerenes and benzenoid hydrocarbons is shown to be no longer valid for carboncone. We here propose an extended model capable of predicting the hydrogenation regioselectivity for carboncone, which is largely governed by π delocalization. Yet the H···H repulsion at rim sites also plays an important role in adduct stability. Interestingly, some preferred addition patterns can be understood by counting the size of intact π rings upon H addition. These findings may provide insightful guidance to the functionalization of carboncones and related nanocarbons.
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- Xuyang Chen
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225002, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225002, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225002, China
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Dumi A, Upadhyay S, Bernasconi L, Shin H, Benali A, Jordan KD. The binding of atomic hydrogen on graphene from density functional theory and diffusion Monte Carlo calculations. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:144702. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0085982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In this work, density functional theory (DFT) and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) methods are used to calculate the binding energy of a H atom chemisorbed on the graphene surface. The DMC value of the binding energy is about 16% smaller in magnitude than the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof (PBE) result. The inclusion of exact exchange through the use of the Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof functional brings the DFT value of the binding energy closer in line with the DMC result. It is also found that there are significant differences in the charge distributions determined using PBE and DMC approaches.
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- Amanda Dumi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Center for Research Computing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Pizzochero M, Kaxiras E. Hydrogen Atoms on Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: Chemistry and Magnetism Meet at the Edge. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:1922-1928. [PMID: 35167308 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Although the unconventional π-magnetism at the zigzag edges of graphene holds promise for a wide array of applications, whether and to what degree it plays a role in their chemistry remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate the addition of a hydrogen atom─the simplest yet the most experimentally relevant adsorbate─to zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs). We show that the π-magnetism governs the chemistry of ZGNRs, giving rise to a site-dependent reactivity of the carbon atoms and driving the hydrogenation process to the nanoribbon edges. Conversely, the chemisorbed hydrogen atom governs the π-magnetism of ZGNRs, acting as a spin-1/2 paramagnetic center in the otherwise antiferromagnetic ground state and spin-polarizing the charge carriers at the band extrema. Our findings establish a comprehensive picture of the peculiar interplay between chemistry and magnetism that emerges at the zigzag edges of graphene.
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- Michele Pizzochero
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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Kim MA, Sorescu DC, Amemiya S, Jordan KD, Liu H. Real-Time Modulation of Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Graphene Electrodes Using Mechanical Strain. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:10691-10700. [PMID: 35170299 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c21821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This paper reports the effect of mechanically applied elastic strain on the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity of graphene under acidic conditions. An applied tensile strain of 0.2% on a graphene electrode is shown to lead to a 1-3% increase in the HER current. The tensile strain increases HER activity, whereas compressive strain decreases it. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using a periodic graphene slab model predict an increase in the adsorption energy of the H atom with growing tensile strain, consistent with an enhancement of the current density in HER, similar to that observed experimentally.
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- Min A Kim
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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Santos E, Schmickler W. Hydrogen adsorption on doped graphene investigated by a DFT-based tight-binding method. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:504001. [PMID: 34547738 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac28c0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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DFTB is a tight binding model based on density functional theory (DFT); it is less exact than the latter, but much faster, and allows calculations for much larger ensembles and timescales. Here we explore its possibilities for electrochemistry, taking hydrogen adsorption on pristine and doped graphene as an example. The speed and the flexibility of DFTB enabled us to provide a broad panorama incorporating not only the effects of various dopants, but also of ionic adsorption and double-layer charging. With the exception of graphene doped with boron, our results agree well with literature data based on DFT where they exist, and with a few control DFT calculations performed by us. DFTB is well suited to perform molecular dynamics for the electrochemical interface. As an example, we have investigated the effect of water on hydrogen adsorption on pristine graphene.
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Ramirez-de-Arellano JM, Canales M, Magaña LF. Carbon Nanostructures Doped with Transition Metals for Pollutant Gas Adsorption Systems. Molecules 2021; 26:5346. [PMID: 34500783 PMCID: PMC8434604 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26175346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The adsorption of molecules usually increases capacity and/or strength with the doping of surfaces with transition metals; furthermore, carbon nanostructures, i.e., graphene, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, graphdiyne, etc., have a large specific area for gas adsorption. This review focuses on the reports (experimental or theoretical) of systems using these structures decorated with transition metals for mainly pollutant molecules' adsorption. Furthermore, we aim to present the expanding application of nanomaterials on environmental problems, mainly over the last 10 years. We found a wide range of pollutant molecules investigated for adsorption in carbon nanostructures, including greenhouse gases, anticancer drugs, and chemical warfare agents, among many more.
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- J. M. Ramirez-de-Arellano
- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Mexico;
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- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco, Av. San Pablo Xalpa No. 180, Colonia Reynosa Tamaulipas, Delegación Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México 02200, Mexico;
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Apartado Postal 20-364, Ciudad de México 01000, Mexico
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Potapov A, McCoustra M. Physics and chemistry on the surface of cosmic dust grains: a laboratory view. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/0144235x.2021.1918498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Alexey Potapov
- Laboratory Astrophysics Group of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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Arunkumar P, Gayathri S, Han JH. A Complementary Co-Ni Phosphide/Bimetallic Alloy-Interspersed N-Doped Graphene Electrocatalyst for Overall Alkaline Water Splitting. CHEMSUSCHEM 2021; 14:1921-1935. [PMID: 33474804 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202100116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Echinops-like bimetallic CoNiP-CoNi alloy is synthesized from a metal-organic framework (MOF) and serves as an efficient catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), with a low overpotential of 300 mV in 1 M KOH at 10 mA cm-2 (η10 ). The cooperative effect of Ni and Co metal, as well as the interfacial properties of the integrated semiconducting phosphide/metallic alloy and electronic conductivity of the MOF-derived carbon regulate the performance of the catalyst. Moreover, the bimetallic CoNiP/CoNi alloy catalyst is interspersed with N-doped graphene, forming a triad catalyst that demonstrates superior activity towards the hydrogen evolution reaction (η10 =150 mV) and excellent durability, owing to interfacial effects of the triad catalyst, large electrochemical active surface area, and enhanced conductivity from N-doped graphene. The stability of the carbon-containing catalyst during OER (oxidation) is altered by the high reactivity of heteroatom dopant. The assembled CoNiP/CoNi/N-RGO||CoNiP/CoNi water electrolyzer delivers a reasonable cell potential of 1.76 V at 10 mA cm-2 . The synthesized bimetallic CoNiP/CoNi alloy-based triad catalyst thus demonstrates excellent electrocatalytic activity and high durability suitable for efficient alkaline water splitting.
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- Paulraj Arunkumar
- School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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Jiang H, Tao X, Kammler M, Ding F, Wodtke AM, Kandratsenka A, Miller TF, Bünermann O. Small Nuclear Quantum Effects in Scattering of H and D from Graphene. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:1991-1996. [PMID: 33596383 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We study nuclear quantum effects in H/D sticking to graphene, comparing scattering experiments at near-zero coverage with classical, quantized, and transition-state calculations. The experiment shows H/D sticking probabilities that are indistinguishable from one another and markedly smaller than those expected from a consideration of zero-point energy shifts of the chemisorption transition state. Inclusion of dynamical effects and vibrational anharmonicity via ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) yields results that are in good agreement with the experimental results. RPMD also reveals that nuclear quantum effects, while modest, arise primarily from carbon and not from H/D motion, confirming the importance of a C atom rehybridization mechanism associated with H/D sticking on graphene.
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- Hongyan Jiang
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Nieman R, Aquino AJA, Lischka H. Exploration of Graphene Defect Reactivity toward a Hydrogen Radical Utilizing a Preactivated Circumcoronene Model. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:1152-1165. [PMID: 33507752 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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A preexisting chemisorbed defect is well-known to increase the reactivity of graphene which is normally chemically inert. Specifically, the presence of chemisorbed hydrogen atoms forming an sp3-hybridized C-H bond is known to increase the reactivity of neighboring carbon atoms toward additional hydrogenation with wide-ranging applications from materials science to astrochemistry. In this work, static DFT and DFT-based direct dynamics simulations are used to characterize the reactivity of a graphene sheet around an existing C-H bond defect. The spin density landscape shows how to guide subsequent H atom additions, always bonding most strongly to the carbon atom with greatest spin density. Molecular dynamics of an impinging H atom under thermal conditions with defect graphene was used to determine the statistics of probable reactions. The most frequent outcome is inelastic scattering (48%) and then Eley-Rideal (ER) abstraction of the chemisorbed H atom as vibrationally hot H2 (40%), while the least likely, but probably most interesting, result is formation of a novel C-H bond (12%). The C-H bonds always form in the β sublattice. The carbon atom in the para position shows to be most reactive toward the incoming H atom, followed by the ortho carbon, in agreement with the spin density computed in the static calculations. Globally, the graphene energy surface is repulsive, but the defects create local channels into this energy surface through which reactants can move locally through and react with the activated surface without a barrier.
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- Reed Nieman
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States.,School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States.,School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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Mejri A, Herlem G, Picaud F. From Behavior of Water on Hydrophobic Graphene Surfaces to Ultra-Confinement of Water in Carbon Nanotubes. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 11:306. [PMID: 33504024 PMCID: PMC7911377 DOI: 10.3390/nano11020306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In recent years and with the achievement of nanotechnologies, the development of experiments based on carbon nanotubes has allowed to increase the ionic permeability and/or selectivity in nanodevices. However, this new technology opens the way to many questionable observations, to which theoretical work can answer using several approximations. One of them concerns the appearance of a negative charge on the carbon surface, when the latter is apparently neutral. Using first-principles density functional theory combined with molecular dynamics, we develop here several simulations on different systems in order to understand the reactivity of the carbon surface in low or ultra-high confinement. According to our calculations, there is high affinity of the carbon atom to the hydrogen ion in every situation, and to a lesser extent for the hydroxyl ion. The latter can only occur when the first hydrogen attack has been achieved. As a consequence, the functionalization of the carbon surface in the presence of an aqueous medium is activated by its protonation, then allowing the reactivity of the anion.
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- Laboratoire de Nanomédecine, Imagerie et Thérapeutiques, EA4662, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire et Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France; (A.M.); (G.H.)
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Monolayer Gas Adsorption on Graphene-Based Materials: Surface Density of Adsorption Sites and Adsorption Capacity. SURFACES 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/surfaces3030031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Surface density of adsorption sites on an adsorbent (including affinity-based sensors) is one of the basic input parameters in modeling of process kinetics in adsorption based devices. Yet, there is no simple expression suitable for fast calculations in current multiscale models. The published experimental data are often application-specific and related to the equilibrium surface density of adsorbate molecules. Based on the known density of adsorbed gas molecules and the surface coverage, both of these in equilibrium, we obtained an equation for the surface density of adsorption sites. We applied our analysis to the case of pristine graphene and thus estimated molecular dynamics of adsorption on it. The monolayer coverage was determined for various pressures and temperatures. The results are verified by comparison with literature data. The results may be applicable to modeling of the surface density of adsorption sites for gas adsorption on other homogeneous crystallographic surfaces. In addition to it, the obtained analytical expressions are suitable for training artificial neural networks determining the surface density of adsorption sites on a graphene surface based on the known binding energy, temperature, mass of adsorbate molecules and their affinity towards graphene. The latter is of interest for multiscale modelling.
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AlSalem HS, Al-Goul ST, García-Miranda Ferrari A, Brownson DAC, Velarde L, Koehler SPK. Imaging the reactivity and width of graphene's boundary region. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:9612-9615. [PMID: 32776054 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc02675a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The reactivity of graphene at its boundary region has been imaged using non-linear spectroscopy to address the controversy whether the terraces of graphene or its edges are more reactive. Graphene was functionalised with phenyl groups, and we subsequently scanned our vibrational sum-frequency generation setup from the functionalised graphene terraces across the edges. A greater phenyl signal is clearly observed at the edges, showing evidence of increased reactivity in the boundary region. We estimate an upper limit of 1 mm for the width of the CVD graphene boundary region.
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- Huda S AlSalem
- School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK and Photon Science Institute, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK and School of Chemistry, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, USA and School of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK. and Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, UK
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK. and Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 5GD, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK.
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Liu Y, Zeng C, Zhong J, Ding J, Wang ZM, Liu Z. Spintronics in Two-Dimensional Materials. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2020; 12:93. [PMID: 34138100 PMCID: PMC7770708 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-020-00424-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Spintronics, exploiting the spin degree of electrons as the information vector, is an attractive field for implementing the beyond Complemetary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices. Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials have been drawing tremendous attention in spintronics owing to their distinctive spin-dependent properties, such as the ultra-long spin relaxation time of graphene and the spin-valley locking of transition metal dichalcogenides. Moreover, the related heterostructures provide an unprecedented probability of combining the different characteristics via proximity effect, which could remedy the limitation of individual 2D materials. Hence, the proximity engineering has been growing extremely fast and has made significant achievements in the spin injection and manipulation. Nevertheless, there are still challenges toward practical application; for example, the mechanism of spin relaxation in 2D materials is unclear, and the high-efficiency spin gating is not yet achieved. In this review, we focus on 2D materials and related heterostructures to systematically summarize the progress of the spin injection, transport, manipulation, and application for information storage and processing. We also highlight the current challenges and future perspectives on the studies of spintronic devices based on 2D materials.
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- Yanping Liu
- School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Central South University, A510a, Virtual University Building, Southern District, High-Tech Industrial Park, Yuehai Street, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
- State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Complex Manufacturing, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
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Savin AV, Kosevich YA. Modeling of One-Side Surface Modifications of Graphene. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 12:E4179. [PMID: 31842345 PMCID: PMC6947019 DOI: 10.3390/ma12244179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We model, with the use of the force field method, the dependence of mechanical conformations of graphene sheets, located on flat substrates, on the density of unilateral (one-side) attachment of hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine atoms to them. It is shown that a chemically-modified graphene sheet can take four main forms on a flat substrate: the form of a flat sheet located parallel to the surface of the substrate, the form of convex sheet partially detached from the substrate with bent edges adjacent to the substrate, and the form of a single and double roll on the substrate. On the surface of crystalline graphite, the flat form of the sheet is lowest in energy for hydrogenation density p < 0.21 , fluorination density p < 0.20 , and chlorination density p < 0.16 . For higher attachment densities, the flat form of the graphene sheet becomes unstable. The surface of crystalline nickel has higher adsorption energy for graphene monolayer and the flat form of a chemically modified sheet on such a substrate is lowest in energy for hydrogenation density p < 0.47 , fluorination density p < 0.30 and chlorination density p < 0.21 .
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- Alexander V. Savin
- N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosygin str., 119991 Moscow, Russia;
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Rossi Fernández AC, Domancich NF, Ferullo RM, Castellani NJ. Aluminum adsorption on graphene: Theoretical study of dispersion effects. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2019. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219633619500196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The interaction between a single atom and graphene is an example in which the density functional theory (DFT) presents serious difficulties in giving an appropriate description of the adsorbate–substrate interaction, giving also different predictions according to the chosen approximation. The present calculations sustain that the inclusion of dispersion interactions in the framework of DFT for the Al/graphene system lead to potential energy curves of different nature according to the theoretical approach employed. The adsorption of an Al atom on the graphene surface was studied using both cluster and slab models. Cluster DFT–PBE calculations show the presence of a minimum at hollow site at an Al–graphene distance of about 2.1–2.3 Å corresponding to an exothermic state. Conversely, under B3LYP the same adsorption mode is endothermic. In comparison, our MP2 reference calculations predict the formation of two minima, both of exothermic nature, separated by an important energy barrier (about 0.2–0.4[Formula: see text]eV). The incorporation of empirical van der Walls (vdW) corrections to B3LYP changes the original behavior, giving an exothermic adsorption; furthermore, it produces a second, more external minimum. Slab calculations with PBE, and specially using the vdW-DF2 functional, predict also the formation of a minimum of very low depth at about 3.1 Å. The analysis of results obtained with cluster and slab models sustains that the bonding of the inner minima is of ionic character while that of the external ones is of dispersion character.
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- Ana C. Rossi Fernández
- Instituto de Quimica del Sur, Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Avenida Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Grupo de Materiales y Sistemas Catalíticos, Instituto de Física del Sur, Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional del Sur Avenida Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Instituto de Quimica del Sur, Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Avenida Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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- Grupo de Materiales y Sistemas Catalíticos, Instituto de Física del Sur, Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional del Sur Avenida Alem 1253, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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Jiang H, Kammler M, Ding F, Dorenkamp Y, Manby FR, Wodtke AM, Miller TF, Kandratsenka A, Bünermann O. Imaging covalent bond formation by H atom scattering from graphene. Science 2019; 364:379-382. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw6378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Viewing the atomic-scale motion and energy dissipation pathways involved in forming a covalent bond is a longstanding challenge for chemistry. We performed scattering experiments of H atoms from graphene and observed a bimodal translational energy loss distribution. Using accurate first-principles dynamics simulations, we show that the quasi-elastic channel involves scattering through the physisorption well where collision sites are near the centers of the six-membered C-rings. The second channel results from transient C–H bond formation, where H atoms lose 1 to 2 electron volts of energy within a 10-femtosecond interaction time. This remarkably rapid form of intramolecular vibrational relaxation results from the C atom’s rehybridization during bond formation and is responsible for an unexpectedly high sticking probability of H on graphene.
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Hernández-Hernández A, Vallejo E, Martínez-Farías F, Pelayo JJ, Hernández-Hernández LA, Pescador-Rojas JA, Tamayo-Rivera L, Morales-Peñaloza A, López-Pérez PA, Cortes ER. Changes to the dissociation barrier of H 2 due to buckling induced by a chemisorbed hydrogen on a doped graphene surface. J Mol Model 2018; 24:244. [PMID: 30128714 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-018-3763-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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An effectiveway of enhancing hydrogen storage on adsorbent materials can be induced by the hydrogen spill-over mechanism, although to date there is no general consensus which satisfactorily explains the mechanism. In this work, a possible reaction path to explain hydrogen adsorption is shown. Density-functional calculations were used to study the dissociation of molecular hydrogen near to a stressed region, as a consequence of chemisorbed hydrogen at the graphene-nitrogen surface. We found that as a result of the buckling induced by the chemisorbed hydrogen, the dissociation barrier of molecular hydrogen diminished by 0.84 eV. The chemisorbed hydrogen is the final state in the spill-over mechanism on a graphene-nitrogen decorated with palladium clusters. This effect helps to create hydrogen nanoislands that may change the diffusion and detrapping of H. An electronic structure analysis suggests that these systems occasionally present metallic or semiconductor behavior. Graphical Abstract Hydrogen dissociation and adsorption process via buckling defect.
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- A Hernández-Hernández
- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México.
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México
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- Escuela Superior de Apan, Energetic Systems and Advanced Materials, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan Km. 8, Col. Chimalpa, C.P. 43920, Apan, Hidalgo, México.
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Bonfanti M, Achilli S, Martinazzo R. Sticking of atomic hydrogen on graphene. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2018; 30:283002. [PMID: 29845971 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aac89f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Recent years have witnessed an ever growing interest in the interactions between hydrogen atoms and a graphene sheet. Largely motivated by the possibility of modulating the electric, optical and magnetic properties of graphene, a huge number of studies have appeared recently that added to and enlarged earlier investigations on graphite and other carbon materials. In this review we give a glimpse of the many facets of this adsorption process, as they emerged from these studies. The focus is on those issues that have been addressed in detail, under carefully controlled conditions, with an emphasis on the interplay between the adatom structures, their formation dynamics and the electric, magnetic and chemical properties of the carbon sheet.
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- Matteo Bonfanti
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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Petucci J, Semone S, LeBlond C, Karimi M, Vidali G. Formation of H2 on graphene using Eley-Rideal and Langmuir-Hinshelwood processes. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:014702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5026691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- J. Petucci
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80208, USA
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- Department of Physics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705, USA
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- Department of Physics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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Basta L, Veronesi S, Murata Y, Dubois Z, Mishra N, Fabbri F, Coletti C, Heun S. A sensitive calorimetric technique to study energy (heat) exchange at the nano-scale. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:10079-10086. [PMID: 29781026 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr00747k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Every time a chemical reaction occurs, an energy exchange between reactants and the environment takes place, which is defined as the enthalpy of the reaction. During the last few decades, research has resulted in an increasing number of devices at the micro- or nano-scale. Sensors, catalyzers, and energy storage systems are more and more developed as nano-devices which represent the building blocks for commercial "macroscopic" objects. A general method for the direct evaluation of the energy balance of such systems is not available at present. Calorimetry is a powerful tool to investigate energy exchange, but it usually requires macroscopic sample quantities. Here, we report on the development of an original experimental setup able to detect temperature variations as low as 10 mK in a sample of ∼10 ng using a thermometer device having physical dimensions of 5 × 5 mm2. This technique has been utilized to measure the enthalpy release during the adsorption process of H2 on titanium-decorated monolayer graphene. The sensitivity of these thermometers is high enough to detect a hydrogen uptake of ∼10-10 moles, corresponding to ∼0.2 ng, with an enthalpy release of about 23 μJ. The experimental setup allows, in perspective, scalability to even smaller sizes.
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- Luca Basta
- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza S. Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy.
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Quan Q, Xie S, Weng B, Wang Y, Xu YJ. Revealing the Double-Edged Sword Role of Graphene on Boosted Charge Transfer versus Active Site Control in TiO 2 Nanotube Arrays@RGO/MoS 2 Heterostructure. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2018; 14:e1704531. [PMID: 29667357 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201704531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2017] [Revised: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Charge separation/transfer is generally believed to be the most key factor affecting the efficiency of photocatalysis, which however will be counteracted if not taking the active site engineering into account for a specific photoredox reaction. Here, a 3D heterostructure composite is designed consisting of MoS2 nanoplatelets decorated on reduced graphene oxide-wrapped TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNTAs@RGO/MoS2 ). Such a cascade configuration renders a directional migration of charge carriers and controlled immobilization of active sites, thereby showing much higher photoactivity for water splitting to H2 than binary TNTAs@RGO and TNTAs/MoS2 . The photoactivity comparison and mechanistic analysis reveal the double-edged sword role of RGO on boosted charge separation/transfer versus active site control in this composite system. The as-observed inconsistency between boosted charge transfer and lowered photoactivity over TNTAs@RGO is attributed to the decrease of active sites for H2 evolution, which is significantly different from the previous reports in literature. The findings of the intrinsic relationship of balanced benefits from charge separation/transfer and active site control could promote the rational optimization of photocatalyst design by cooperatively manipulating charge flow and active site control, thereby improving the efficiency of photocatalysis for target photoredox processes.
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- Quan Quan
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry, New Campus, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry, New Campus, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry, New Campus, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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Ravikumar A, Brivio GP, Fratesi G. Core Level Spectra of Organic Molecules Adsorbed on Graphene. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2018; 11:ma11040518. [PMID: 29596315 PMCID: PMC5951364 DOI: 10.3390/ma11040518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We perform first principle calculations based on density functional theory to investigate the effect of the adsorption of core-excited organic molecules on graphene. We simulate Near Edge X-ray absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) and X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) at the N and C edges for two moieties: pyridine and the pyridine radical on graphene, which exemplify two different adsorption characters. The modifications of molecular and graphene energy levels due to their interplay with the core-level excitation are discussed. We find that upon physisorption of pyridine, the binding energies of graphene close to the adsorption site reduce mildly, and the NEXAFS spectra of the molecule and graphene resemble those of gas phase pyridine and pristine graphene, respectively. However, the chemisorption of the pyridine radical is found to significantly alter these core excited spectra. The C 1s binding energy of the C atom of graphene participating in chemisorption increases by ∼1 eV, and the C atoms of graphene alternate to the adsorption site show a reduction in the binding energy. Analogously, these C atoms also show strong modifications in the NEXAFS spectra. The NEXAFS spectrum of the chemisorbed molecule is also modified as a result of hybridization with and screening by graphene. We eventually explore the electronic properties and magnetism of the system as a core-level excitation is adiabatically switched on.
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- Abhilash Ravikumar
- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via Cozzi, 55, 20125 Milano, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via Cozzi, 55, 20125 Milano, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria, 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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Pasquini M, Bonfanti M, Martinazzo R. Full quantum dynamical investigation of the Eley-Rideal reaction forming H 2 on a movable graphitic substrate at T = 0 K. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:977-988. [PMID: 29231946 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07080b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The dynamics of the Eley-Rideal abstraction reaction of hydrogen atoms on a movable graphitic surface is investigated for the first time in a numerically exact fully quantum setting. A system-bath strategy was applied where the two recombining H atoms and a substrate C atom form a relevant subsystem, while the rest of the lattice takes the form of an independent oscillator bath. High-dimensional wavepacket simulations were performed in the collision energy range 0.2-1.0 eV with the help of the multi-layer multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree method, focusing on the collinear reaction on a zero-temperature surface. Results show that the dynamics is close to a sudden limit in which the reaction is much faster than the substrate motion. Unpuckering of the surface is fast (some tens of fs) but starts only after the formation of H2 is completed, thereby determining a considerable substrate heating (∼0.8 eV per reactive event). Energy partitioning in the product molecule favors translational over vibrational energy, and H2 molecules are vibrationally hot (∼1.5 eV) though to a lesser extent than previously predicted.
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- Marta Pasquini
- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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Allerdt A, Feiguin AE. Dilute antiferromagnetism in magnetically doped phosphorene. PAPERS IN PHYSICS 2017. [DOI: 10.4279/pip.090008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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We study the competition between Kondo physics and indirect exchange on monolayer black phos-phorous using a realistic description of the band structure in combination with the density matrixrenormalization group (DMRG) method. The Hamiltonian is reduced to a one-dimensional problemvia an exact canonical transformation that makes it amenable to DMRG calculations, yielding exactresults that fully incorporate the many-body physics. We find that a perturbative description of theproblem is not appropriate and cannot account for the slow decay of the correlations and the completelack of ferromagnetism. In addition, at some particular distances, the impurities decouple formingtheir own independent Kondo states. This can be predicted from the nodes of the Lindhard function.Our results indicate a possible route toward realizing dilute anti-ferromagnetism in phosphorene.
Received: 19 September 2017, Accepted: 12 October 2017; Edited by: K. Hallberg; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4279/PIP.090008
Cite as: A Allerdt, A E Feiguin, Papers in Physics 9, 090008 (2017)
This paper, by A Allerdt, A E Feiguin, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
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Role of H Distribution on Coherent Quantum Transport of Electrons in Hydrogenated Graphene. CONDENSED MATTER 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/condmat2040037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Wakelam V, Bron E, Cazaux S, Dulieu F, Gry C, Guillard P, Habart E, Hornekær L, Morisset S, Nyman G, Pirronello V, Price SD, Valdivia V, Vidali G, Watanabe N. H 2 formation on interstellar dust grains: The viewpoints of theory, experiments, models and observations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molap.2017.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The absorption energy of atomic hydrogen at rotated graphene bilayers is studied using ab initio methods based on the density functional theory including van der Waals interactions. We find that, due to the surface corrugation induced by the underneath rotated layer and the perturbation of the electronic density of states near the Fermi energy, the atoms with an almost AA stacking are the preferential ones for hydrogen chemisorption. The adsorption energy difference between different atoms can be as large as 80 meV. In addition, we find that, due to the logarithmic van Hove singularities in the electronic density of states at energies close to the Dirac point, the adsorption energy of either electron or hole doped samples is substantially increased. We also find that the adsorption energy increases with the decrease of the rotated angle between the layers. Finally, the large zero point energy of the C-H bond (∼0.3 eV) suggests adsorption and desorption of atomic hydrogen and deuterium should behave differently.
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- Ivan Brihuega
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Manh-Thuong Nguyen
- Center
for Computational Physics, Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 10 Dao Tan Street, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- School
of Engineering Physics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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Savin AV, Mazo MA. Molecular dynamics simulation of two-sided chemical modification of carbon nanoribbons on a solid substrate. DOKLADY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0012501617030022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Feng YP, Shen L, Yang M, Wang A, Zeng M, Wu Q, Chintalapati S, Chang CR. Prospects of spintronics based on 2D materials. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Yuan Ping Feng
- Department of Physics; National University of Singapore; Singapore
- Centre for Advanced Two-dimensional Materials; National University of Singapore; Singapore
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering; National University of Singapore; Singapore
- Engineering Science Programme; National University of Singapore; Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Science and Engineering; A*STAR; Singapore
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- Department of Physics; National University of Singapore; Singapore
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering; National University of Singapore; Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced Two-dimensional Materials; National University of Singapore; Singapore
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Nguyen MT, Phong PN. Atomic Transport at Charged Graphene: Why Hydrogen and Oxygen Are So Different. ChemistrySelect 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Manh-Thuong Nguyen
- Center for Computational Physics, Institute of Physics; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 10 Dao Tan St. Hanoi Vietnam
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- School of Engineering Physics; Hanoi University of Science and Technology; Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
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Synthesis of Graphene-Based Sensors and Application on Detecting SF6 Decomposing Products: A Review. SENSORS 2017; 17:s17020363. [PMID: 28208836 PMCID: PMC5335997 DOI: 10.3390/s17020363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Graphene-based materials have aroused enormous focus on a wide range of engineering fields because of their unique structure. One of the most promising applications is gas adsorption and sensing. In electrical engineering, graphene-based sensors are also employed as detecting devices to estimate the operation status of gas insulated switchgear (GIS). This paper reviews the main synthesis methods of graphene, gas adsorption, and sensing mechanism of its based sensors, as well as their applications in detecting SF6 decomposing products, such as SO2, H2S, SO2F2, and SOF2, in GIS. Both theoretical and experimental researches on gas response of graphene-based sensors to these typical gases are summarized. Finally, the future research trend about graphene synthesis technique and relevant perspective are also given.
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Nieman R, Das A, Aquino AJ, Amorim RG, Machado FB, Lischka H. Single and double carbon vacancies in pyrene as first models for graphene defects: A survey of the chemical reactivity toward hydrogen. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2016.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Liu J, Liang T, Wang C, Lai W. Oxygen adsorption and CO desorption behavior of B- and N-doped vacancy defected nuclear graphite by DFT study. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra26103e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Oxygen adsorption and desorption of gasification products are two factors that influence graphite oxidation behavior.
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- Juan Liu
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing
- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing
- China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology
- Ganzhou
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing
- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing
- China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing
- China
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Dobrota AS, Pašti IA, Mentus SV, Skorodumova NV. A DFT study of the interplay between dopants and oxygen functional groups over the graphene basal plane – implications in energy-related applications. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:8530-8540. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp00344g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The reactivity of the graphene basal plane modified by doping and vacancy formation is investigated in detail using DFT calculations.
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- Ana S. Dobrota
- University of Belgrade – Faculty of Physical Chemistry
- 11158 Belgrade
- Serbia
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- University of Belgrade – Faculty of Physical Chemistry
- 11158 Belgrade
- Serbia
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- University of Belgrade – Faculty of Physical Chemistry
- 11158 Belgrade
- Serbia
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 11000 Belgrade
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
- 100 44 Stockholm
- Sweden
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Bimodal behaviour of charge carriers in graphene induced by electric double layer. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30731. [PMID: 27464986 PMCID: PMC4964658 DOI: 10.1038/srep30731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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A theoretical investigation is performed into the electronic properties of graphene in the presence of liquid as a function of the contact area ratio. It is shown that the electric double layer (EDL) formed at the interface of the graphene and the liquid causes an overlap of the conduction bands and valance bands and increases the density of state (DOS) at the Fermi energy (EF). In other words, a greater number of charge carriers are induced for transport and the graphene changes from a semiconductor to a semimetal. In addition, it is shown that the dependence of the DOS at EF on the contact area ratio has a bimodal distribution which responses to the experimental observation, a pinnacle curve. The maximum number of induced carriers is expected to occur at contact area ratios of 40% and 60%. In general, the present results indicate that modulating the EDL provides an effective means of tuning the electronic properties of graphene in the presence of liquid.
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Femtomagnetism in graphene induced by core level excitation of organic adsorbates. Sci Rep 2016; 6:24603. [PMID: 27089847 PMCID: PMC4835731 DOI: 10.1038/srep24603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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We predict the induction or suppression of magnetism in the valence shell of physisorbed and chemisorbed organic molecules on graphene occurring on the femtosecond time scale as a result of core level excitations. For physisorbed molecules, where the interaction with graphene is dominated by van der Waals forces and the system is non-magnetic in the ground state, numerical simulations based on density functional theory show that the valence electrons relax towards a spin polarized configuration upon excitation of a core-level electron. The magnetism depends on efficient electron transfer from graphene on the femtosecond time scale. On the other hand, when graphene is covalently functionalized, the system is magnetic in the ground state showing two spin dependent mid gap states localized around the adsorption site. At variance with the physisorbed case upon core-level excitation, the LUMO of the molecule and the mid gap states of graphene hybridize and the relaxed valence shell is not magnetic anymore.
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Lugo G, Cuesta IG, Sánchez Marín J, Sánchez de Merás A. MP2 Study of Physisorption of Molecular Hydrogen onto Defective Nanotubes: Cooperative Effect in Stone–Wales Defects. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:4951-60. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b12589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- G. Lugo
- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
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Casolo S, Tantardini GF, Martinazzo R. Hydrogen Recombination and Dimer Formation on Graphite from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:5032-40. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b12761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- S. Casolo
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi
19, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi
19, 20133 Milan, Italy
- Istituto di Scienze
e Tecnologie Molecolari, CNR-ISTM, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi
19, 20133 Milan, Italy
- Istituto di Scienze
e Tecnologie Molecolari, CNR-ISTM, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Pasquini M, Bonfanti M, Martinazzo R. Quantum dynamical investigation of the isotope effect in H2 formation on graphite at cold collision energies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:6607-17. [PMID: 26868899 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07272g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The Eley-Rideal abstraction of hydrogen atoms on graphitic surfaces at cold collision energies was investigated using a time-dependent wave packet method within the rigid-flat surface approximation, with a focus on hydrogen-deuterium isotopic substitutions. It is found that the marked isotope effect of collinear collisions disappears when the full dimensionality of the problem is taken into account, thereby suggesting that abstraction is less direct than commonly believed and proceeds through glancing rather than head-on collisions. In contrast, a clear isotope effect is observed for "hot-atom" formation, which appears to be strongly favored for heavy projectiles because of their higher density of physisorbed states. Overall, the dynamics is essentially classical and reasonably well described by quasi-classical trajectory methods at all but the lowest energies (≲10 meV). A comparison of the results obtained in the (substrate) adiabatic and diabatic limits suggests that the reaction is only marginally affected by the lattice dynamics, but highlights the importance of including energy dissipation processes in order to accurately describe the internal excitation of the product molecules.
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- Marta Pasquini
- Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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Gao L, Pal PP, Seideman T, Guisinger NP, Guest JR. Current-Driven Hydrogen Desorption from Graphene: Experiment and Theory. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:486-494. [PMID: 26787160 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Electron-stimulated desorption of hydrogen from the graphene/SiC(0001) surface at room temperature was investigated with ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy and ab initio calculations in order to elucidate the desorption mechanisms and pathways. Two different desorption processes were observed. In the high electron energy regime (4-8 eV), the desorption yield is independent of both voltage and current, which is attributed to the direct electronic excitation of the C-H bond. In the low electron energy regime (2-4 eV), however, the desorption yield exhibits a threshold dependence on voltage, which is explained by the vibrational excitation of the C-H bond via transient ionization induced by inelastic tunneling electrons. The observed current independence of the desorption yield suggests that the vibrational excitation is a single-electron process. We also observed that the curvature of graphene dramatically affects hydrogen desorption. Desorption from concave regions was measured to be much more probable than desorption from convex regions in the low electron energy regime (∼2 eV), as would be expected from the identified desorption mechanism.
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- Li Gao
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University , Northridge, California 91330, United States
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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