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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 33, 期 20, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/abf19d
关键词
computational electrocatalysis; solvation; adsorption
资金
- European Union through the A-leaf project [732840A-LEAF]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant [707404]
- NWO Physical Sciences
- NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
Determining the adsorption potential of ions in solution phase is crucial in computational electrocatalysis, and a previously used method utilizing an electrochemical thermodynamic cycle can accurately calculate the reference free energy of ions from gas or solid phases, avoiding the need to model solvent. This method has been shown to be able to reproduce experimental trends in adsorption potentials obtained with DFT calculations.
Determining the adsorption potential of adsorbed ions in the field of computational electrocatalysis is of great interest to study their interaction with the electrode material and the solvent, and to map out surface phase diagrams and reaction pathways. Calculating the adsorption potentials of ions with density functional theory and comparing across various ions requires an accurate reference energy of the ion in solution and electrons at the same electrochemical scale. Here we highlight a previously used method for determining the reference free energy of solution phase ions using a simple electrochemical thermodynamic cycle, which allows this free energy to be calculated from that of a neutral gas-phase or solid species and an experimentally measured equilibrium potential, avoiding the need to model solvent around the solution phase ion in the electronic structure calculations. While this method is not new, we describe its use and utility in detail and show that this same method can be used to find the free energy of any ion from any reaction, as long as the half-cell equilibrium potential is known, even for reactions that do not transfer the same number of protons and electrons. To illustrate its usability, we compare the adsorption potentials obtained with DFT of I*, Br*, Cl*, and SO4 * on Pt(111) and Au(111) and OH* and Ag* on Pt(111) with those measured experimentally and find that this simple and computationally affordable method reproduces the experimental trends.
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