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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 5, 期 19, 页码 3445-3450出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz501810g
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, Biosciences
- Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- Chemical Imaging Initiative at Pacific Northwest National laboratory (PNNL)
RuO2 has proven to be indispensable as a co-catalyst in numerous systems designed for photocatalytic water splitting. In this study, we have carried out a detailed mechanistic study of water behavior on the most stable RuO2 face, RuO2(110), by employing variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory calculations. We show that water monomers adsorb molecularly on Ru sites, become mobile above 238 K, diffuse along the Ru rows, and form water dimers. The onset for dimer diffusion is observed at similar to 277 K, indicating a significantly higher diffusion barrier than that for monomers. More importantly, we find that water dimers deprotonate readily to form Ru-bound H3O2 and bridging OH species. The observed behavior is compared and contrasted with that observed for water on isostructural rutile TiO2(110).
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