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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 8, 期 24, 页码 6009-6014出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02820
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- National Basic Research Programs of China [2016YFA0300900]
- National Science Foundation of China [1142243, 1177404, 11274012, 91021007, 11604092, 11634001]
- European Research Council under the European Union/ERC [616121]
- Royal Society
- ARCHER from the UKCP consortium [EP/F036884/1]
Recent experiments have triggered a debate about the ability of protons to transfer easily through individual layers of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). However, state-of-the-art computer calculations have shown that the barriers to proton penetration can, at >3 eV, be excessively high. Despite considerable interest the origin of this apparent anomaly between experiment and simulation remains unclear. We offer a new perspective on this debate and show on the basis of first-principles calculations that the barrier for proton penetration is significantly reduced, to <1 eV, upon hydrogenation, even in the absence of pinholes in the lattice. Although hydrogenation has not been offered as an explanation before, analysis reveals that the barrier is reduced because hydrogenation destabilizes the initial state (a deep-lying chemisorption state) and expands the honeycomb lattice through which the protons penetrate. This study offers a rationalization of the fast proton transfer observed in experiments and highlights the ability of proton transport through single-layer materials in hydrogen-rich solutions.
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