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CATALYSIS TODAY
卷 286, 期 -, 页码 69-77出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2016.11.047
关键词
Nitrogen activation; Electrochemical ammonia formation; DFT calculations; Transition metal nitrides; Reaction mechanisms; Mars-van Krevelen mechanism
资金
- Icelandic Research Fund
- Research Fund of the University of Iceland
Recent theoretical calculations with DFT suggest that transition metal nitrides (TMNs) are promising materials to catalyze N-2 electroreduction to ammonia at ambient conditions. To realize which mechanism is more favourable, we conduct DFT calculations to explore the catalytic activity of these materials in their most stable structures via conventional associative (AM) and dissociative (DM) mechanisms, and then compare the corresponding results with that of Mars-van Krevelen (MvK) mechanism we recently reported. The dissociation of N-2 on the clean surfaces is endothermic on most of these nitrides and the activation barriers large in all cases, which is inhibitive of a DM on these materials. The onset potential predicted for ammonia formation on these TMNs is always less negative via MvK than with AM, except a few cases, where both mechanisms have similar onset potentials. In those cases, the AM is less favourable than MvK since the adsorption of N-2 molecule is endothermic. Therefore, the MvK is almost always the favourable mechanism. We used the computational hydrogen electrode method and neglected any proton-electron transfer reaction barriers in this work but including those will be necessary to make a more definitive statement, which is the subject of future work. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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