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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 20, 期 4, 页码 2549-2557出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08153g
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21606142]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China [MOST 105-2113-M-006-017-MY2]
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0004993]
The rational design of electrocatalysts to convert CO2 to fuel requires predicting the effect of the electrode potential (U) on the binding and structures of the intermediates involved in CO2 electrochemical reduction (CO2ER). In this study, we used grand-canonical quantum mechanics (GC-QM) to keep the potential constant during the reactions (rather than keeping the charge constant as in standard QM) to investigate the effect of U on adsorption free energies (Delta Gs) of 14 CO2ER intermediates on Cu(111) as well as the intermediates involved in the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). In contrast to most previous theoretical studies where Delta Gs were calculated under constant charge (= 0, neutral), we calculated Delta Gs under constant potential (U = 0.0, -0.5, -1.0, and -1.5 V-SHE). By comparing the Delta Gs calculated under constant U (= 0.0 V-SHE) to those calculated under constant charge, we found differences up to 0.22 eV which would change the rates at 298 K by a factor of about 5300. In particular we found that the adsorption of species with a C=O functional group (i.e., *COOH, *CO, and *CHO) strengthened by up to 0.16 eV as U became more negative by 1 V, whereas the adsorption of -O- species (i.e., *OH, *OCH3, * OH, and *CHOH) weakened by up to 0.20 eV. For the (111) index surfaces of Cu, Au, Ag, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt and Rh, we investigated the effect of U on the reaction free energy (Delta G) at pH = 0 for the crucial elementary steps for CO2ER (*CO + (H+/e(-)) -> *CHO, Delta G = (Delta G(*CHO) = Delta G(*CO)) + eU) and HER (* + (H+/e(-)) -> *H, Delta G = Delta G(*H) + eU. Our results indicated that the influence of U on (Delta G(*CHO) = Delta G(*CO)) was metal dependent. In contrast, the energy for converting a proton in solution to H* on the surface, Delta G(*H), was barely affected by U (for the studied metals). Overall we found substantial differences (MAD > 0.18 eV) between the Delta Gs calculated under U = -1.0 V-SHE (relevant to experiments) and those calculated under constant charge (= 0, neutral) common to most theoretical investigations. Therefore, we strongly recommend application GC-QM to obtain accurate energetics for CO2ER.
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