Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 286, Issue -, Pages 115-120Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.09.030
Keywords
Methane; Pd (111); Dehydrogenation; DFT
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21376186]
- Ministry of Education, China [20110201110032]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [08141002, 2011jdhz37]
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2012JM2010]
- Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China [19900001]
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The adsorption and dehydrogenation mechanism of CH4 on Pd (1 1 1) surface was studied using density functional theory (DFT) together with periodic slab models. According to the optimized structural and energetic properties, it was found that CH3 prefers to adsorb on the top sites of the Pd metal surface. Whereas CH2, CH, and H prefer to adsorb on the fcc sites, and C prefers to adsorb on the hcp sites. In addition, this work identified the optimum configurations for the stable co-adsorption configurations of CH, and H. Finally, four transition states were found for analyzing the mechanism of dehydrogenation of CH4. The results show that the dehydrogenation of CH moiety is relatively difficult and the dehydrogenation of CH3 is the rate-determining step in the overall reaction. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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