期刊
SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 622, 期 -, 页码 1-8出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2013.11.013
关键词
DFT; Copper surface sites; Hydrazine adsorption; Dispersion correction
资金
- University College London for an UCL Overseas Research Scholarship
- EPSRC [EP/G036675, EP/F067496]
- Ramsay Memorial Trust and University College London for the provision of a Ramsay Fellowship
- Office of Science and Technology
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F067496/1, EP/K009567/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K009567/1, EP/F067496/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We have investigated the adsorption of hydrazine (N2H4) on perfect and defect-containing copper (111) surfaces by first-principles calculations. The long-range interactions are included in the geometry optimization through the application of the generalised gradient approximation with dispersion correction, DFT-D2 in the method of Grimme. We have studied three types of defects at the surfaces: monoatomic steps, Cu-adatoms and vacancies, where our calculations show that the adsorption energy increases as the coordination of the adsorption sites decreases. The ideal (111) is the most stable surface with the weakest adsorption of hydrazine, whilst the stepped (111) surface is the least stable and hence more reactive surface with the highest adsorption energy, where the hydrazine bridges across the step edge. We found that inclusion of the dispersion correction results in significant enhancement of molecule-substrate binding, thereby increasing the adsorption energy. This strong adsorption results in a bridging adsorption geometry for hydrazine, with a rotation around the N - N bond where the torsional angle changes from a gauche towards an eclipsed conformer to help the molecule to bridge through both nitrogen atoms, in agreement with experimental evidence. The core-level binding shifts for the N(1 s) states upon N2H4 adsorption have been calculated at DFT level to provide further insight into the N2H4 adsorption process on the copper surfaces. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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