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Oxidation and de-alloying of PtMn particle models: a computational investigation

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FARADAY DISCUSSIONS
卷 242, 期 -, 页码 174-192

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00107a

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In this study, we computationally investigate the energetics and mechanisms of oxidation of Pt-Mn systems. Our findings demonstrate that Mn has a strong tendency to alloy with Pt, and surface Mn atoms can dissociate O2 and form MnOx surface oxide structures. These surface oxide structures are supported on a metallic framework and create vacancy sites. The vacancies promote the oxidation process and the energy barriers for oxidation steps are typically around 0.9-1.0 eV.
We present a computational study of the energetics and mechanisms of oxidation of Pt-Mn systems. We use slab models and simulate the oxidation process over the most stable (111) facet at a given Pt2Mn composition to make the problem computationally affordable, and combine Density-Functional Theory (DFT) with neural network potentials and metadynamics simulations to accelerate the mechanistic search. We find, first, that Mn has a strong tendency to alloy with Pt. This tendency is optimally realized when Pt and Mn are mixed in the bulk, but, at a composition in which the Mn content is high enough such as for Pt2Mn, Mn atoms will also be found in the surface outmost layer. These surface Mn atoms can dissociate O-2 and generate MnOx species, transforming the surface-alloyed Mn atoms into MnOx surface oxide structures supported on a metallic framework in which one or more vacancy sites are simultaneously created. The thus-formed vacancies promote the successive steps of the oxidation process: the vacancy sites can be filled by surface oxygen atoms, which can then interact with Mn atoms in deeper layers, or subsurface Mn atoms can intercalate into interstitial sites. Both these steps facilitate the extraction of further bulk Mn atoms into MnOx oxide surface structures, and thus the progress of the oxidation process, with typical rate-determining energy barriers in the range 0.9-1.0 eV.

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