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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 131, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3191784
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We present density functional theory investigations of the bulk properties of cerium oxides (CeO2 and Ce2O3) and the three low index surfaces of CeO2, namely, (100), (110), and (111). For the surfaces, we consider various terminations including surface defects. Using the approach of ab initio atomistic thermodynamics, we find that the most stable surface structure considered is the stoichiometric (111) surface under oxygen-rich conditions, while for a more reducing environment, the same (111) surface, but with subsurface oxygen vacancies, is found to be the most stable one, and for a highly reducing environment, the (111) Ce-terminated surface becomes energetically favored. Interestingly, this latter surface exhibits a significant reconstruction in that it becomes oxygen terminated and the upper layers resemble the Ce2O3 (0001) surface. This structure could represent a precursor to the phase transition of CeO2 to Ce2O3. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3191784]
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