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SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 603, Issue 4, Pages 736-746Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2009.01.015
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- U.S. Department of Energy, office of Basic Science [DE-FG-02-03ER15457]
- Northwestern University Institute for Catalysis in Energy Processes
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The adsorption structures of Cr(VI) species on hydroxylated alpha-Fe2O3(1 (1) over bar 02)were investigated using density functional theory within a periodic slab model. A broad structural survey of H2CrO4, HCrO4- and CrO42- adsorbed on different surface sites was carried out. Chromate species adsorb on the hydroxylated surface via an outer-sphere mechanism through H-bonding and ion-dipole attraction. The most stable structure for H2CrO4 reveals strong H-bonding to surface and between adsorbates. For HCrO4-, a configuration that shows both H-bonding and Cr-O center dot center dot center dot H-O-Fe ion-dipole interaction is the most favored. In the case of CrO42-, the most favored adsorption configuration shows the complex standing on the surface with Cr-O bond aligned on OH, presenting the strongest Cr-O center dot center dot center dot H-O-Fe interaction. In these three species, CrO42- displays the strongest interaction with the hydroxylated (1 (1) over bar 02) surface with no tendency toward 4 reduction observed, in accordance with experiment. (c) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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