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| Content Provider | Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
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| Author | Alghannam, Afnan Muhich, Christopher L. Musgrave, Charles B. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Titanium oxide is often decorated with metal nano-particles and either serves as a catalyst support or enables photocatalytic activity. The activity of these systems degrades over time due to catalytic particle agglomeration and growth by Ostwald ripening where adatoms dissociate from metal particles, diffuse across the surface and add to other metal particles. In this work, we use density functional theory calculations to study the diffusion mechanisms of select group VIII and 1B late-transition metal adatoms commonly used in catalysis and photocatalysis (Au, Ag, Cu, Pt, Rh, Ni, Co and Fe) on the anatase TiO2(101) surface. All metal adatoms preferentially occupy the bridge site between two 2-fold-coordinated oxygen anions (O2c). Surface migration was investigated by calculating the minimum energy pathway from one bridge site to another along three pathways: two in the [010] direction along a row of surface O2c anions and one in the [10] direction between two rows of surface O2c anions. For all adatoms, migration along the [010] direction is favored over migration along the [10] direction due to closer packing of the atoms in the [010] direction and therefore stronger adatom–surface interactions. As the adatom hops along the [010] direction, it preferentially moves through a metastable OTiO structure in which the adatom partially embeds itself within the surface, with the exception of Au, which remains above the surface. The adatoms migrate with relative activation energies of: Au (0.24 eV) < Ag (0.48 eV) < Rh (0.60 eV) < Co (0.78 eV) < Pt (0.84 eV) < Ni (0.86 eV) < Cu (1.23 eV) < Fe (1.79 eV) along the favored pathway. This preference arises from the strength of adatom–surface bonding and the electronegativity difference between the metal adatom and the TiO2 surface. We found a linear correlation between the binding energy/electronegativity and the activation energy for hopping where stronger binding energies and more oxidized adatoms have higher activation energies for adatom migration. The linear correlation developed in this work enables rapid estimations of the hopping rates of other transition metal adatoms across the TiO2 surface. |
| Starting Page | 4541 |
| Ending Page | 4552 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | HTM / HTML PDF |
| ISSN | 14639076 |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Journal | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics |
| DOI | 10.1039/c6cp08789b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Oxygen Anatase Photocatalysis Electronvolt Transition metal Electronegativity Adatom Metastability Ostwald Ostwald ripening Binding energy Density functional theory VIII Titanium oxide Diffusion Activation energy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Physics and Astronomy Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
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