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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 16, Issue 38, Pages 20703-20713Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01527d
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory [k199]
- HKBU Strategic Development Fund
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This work theoretically investigates the CO dissociation on Fen nanoparticles, for n in the range of 1-65, focusing on size dependence in the context of the initial step of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction. CO adsorbs molecularly through its C-end on a triangular facet of the nanoparticle. Dissociation becomes easier when the cluster size increases. Then, the C atom is bonded to a square facet that is generated as a result of the adsorption if it does not yet exist in the bare cluster, while the O atom is adsorbed on a triangular facet. In the most stable situation, the two adsorbed atoms remain close together, both having in common one shared first-neighbor iron atom. There is a partial spin quenching of the neighboring Fe atoms, which become more positively charged than the other Fe atoms. The shared surface iron atom resembles a metal-cation from a complex. Despite the small size of the iron cluster considered, fluctuations due to specific configurations do not influence properties for n >= 25 and global trends seem significant.
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