Journal
CATALYSIS TODAY
Volume 202, Issue -, Pages 98-104Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2012.04.055
Keywords
Electrochemistry; First principles periodic continuum; solvation method; Potential of zero charge; Differential capacitance; CO electrooxidation
Funding
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [20825311, 21173051, 21103110]
- 973 program [2011CB808500]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [08DZ2270500]
- Program for Young Teacher Training at Shanghai Institute of Higher Learning [yyy11011]
- Shanghai Institute of Technology Scientific Research Foundation for Introduced Talent [YJ2011- 45]
- Program for Professor of Special Appointment
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It has been a long challenge to understand the equilibrium and the dynamic phenomena (e. g. chemical reactions) at the electrode/electrolyte interface in a unified theoretical framework. Here periodic first-principles calculations integrated with modified-Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatics are utilized to provide the atomic level insight into the nature of electrochemical double layer and the catalytic reaction at the interface. The double layer properties of a series of metal electrodes and CO-covered Pt electrode, such as the potential of zero charge and the differential capacitance, are calculated from theory and a good agreement between theoretical values and experimental data is achieved. The theoretical method is also applied to understand the mechanism of CO electrooxidation on Pt. By comparing CO + O and CO + OH reaction channels, we show that CO + OH is the major mechanism for CO electrooxidation. It is observed that the barriers of these surface association reactions are weakly dependent on the potential. The theoretical results presented here demonstrate that first-principles periodic continuum solvation method is a practical and general-purpose theoretical tool for studying electrochemical phenomena occurring at the electrode/electrolyte interface. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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