Accurate description of the adsorption process of reactants on metal surfaces from theory is crucial for mechanistic understanding of activity and selectivity of metal catalysts, but it remains challengeable for the n...Accurate description of the adsorption process of reactants on metal surfaces from theory is crucial for mechanistic understanding of activity and selectivity of metal catalysts, but it remains challengeable for the nowadays first-principles theory due to the lack of proper exchange-correlation functional describing the distinct interactions involved. We studied here the potential energy surfaces of ethylene adsorption on Ag(111), Rh(111) and Ir(111) using density functional theory calculations and (meta)-GGA functional including PBE, BEEF-vdW, SCAN, and SCAN+rVV10. For ethylene adsorption on noble metal Ag(111), it is found that BEEF-vdW, SCAN and SCAN+rVV10 predict the presence of the physisorption states only. For Rh(111), both SCAN and SCAN+rVV10 find that there is a precursor physisorption state before the chemisorption state. In contrast, there is no precursor state found based on potential energy surfaces from BEEF-vdW and PBE. Whereas for Ir(111), BEEF-vdW predicts the existence of a rather shallow precursor physisorption state, in addition to the chemisorption state. Irrespective to the transition metals considered, we find that SCAN+rVV10 gives the strongest binding strength, followed by SCAN, and PBE/BEEF-vdW, accordingly. The present work highlights great dependence of potential energy surface of ethylene adsorption on transition metal surfaces and exchange-correlation functionals.展开更多
Selective hydrogenation of acetylene in excess ethylene is an important reaction in both fundamental study and practical application.Pd-based catalysts with high intrinsic activity are commonly employed,but usually su...Selective hydrogenation of acetylene in excess ethylene is an important reaction in both fundamental study and practical application.Pd-based catalysts with high intrinsic activity are commonly employed,but usually suffer from low selectivity.Pd single-atom catalysts(SACs)usually exhibit outstanding ethylene selectivity due to the weakπ-bonding ethylene adsorption.However,the preparation of high-loading and stable Pd SACs is still confronted with a great challenge.In this work,we report a simple strategy to fabricate Pd SACs by means of reducing conventional supported Pd catalysts at suitable temperatures to selectively encapsulate the co-existed Pd nanoparticles(NPs)/clusters.This is based on our new finding that single atoms only manifest strong metal-support interaction(SMSI)at higher reduction temperature than that of NPs/clusters.The derived Pd SACs(Pd1/CeO2 and Pd1/a-Fe2O3)were applied to acetylene selective hydrogenation,exhibiting much improved ethylene selectivity and high stability.This work offers a promising way to develop stable Pd SACs easily.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No.2017YFB0602205 and No.2018YFA0208603)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.91645202)the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.QYZDJ-SSW-SLH054)
文摘Accurate description of the adsorption process of reactants on metal surfaces from theory is crucial for mechanistic understanding of activity and selectivity of metal catalysts, but it remains challengeable for the nowadays first-principles theory due to the lack of proper exchange-correlation functional describing the distinct interactions involved. We studied here the potential energy surfaces of ethylene adsorption on Ag(111), Rh(111) and Ir(111) using density functional theory calculations and (meta)-GGA functional including PBE, BEEF-vdW, SCAN, and SCAN+rVV10. For ethylene adsorption on noble metal Ag(111), it is found that BEEF-vdW, SCAN and SCAN+rVV10 predict the presence of the physisorption states only. For Rh(111), both SCAN and SCAN+rVV10 find that there is a precursor physisorption state before the chemisorption state. In contrast, there is no precursor state found based on potential energy surfaces from BEEF-vdW and PBE. Whereas for Ir(111), BEEF-vdW predicts the existence of a rather shallow precursor physisorption state, in addition to the chemisorption state. Irrespective to the transition metals considered, we find that SCAN+rVV10 gives the strongest binding strength, followed by SCAN, and PBE/BEEF-vdW, accordingly. The present work highlights great dependence of potential energy surface of ethylene adsorption on transition metal surfaces and exchange-correlation functionals.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21972135,21961142006,and 51701201)CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(No.YSBR-022)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFA1500503)。
文摘Selective hydrogenation of acetylene in excess ethylene is an important reaction in both fundamental study and practical application.Pd-based catalysts with high intrinsic activity are commonly employed,but usually suffer from low selectivity.Pd single-atom catalysts(SACs)usually exhibit outstanding ethylene selectivity due to the weakπ-bonding ethylene adsorption.However,the preparation of high-loading and stable Pd SACs is still confronted with a great challenge.In this work,we report a simple strategy to fabricate Pd SACs by means of reducing conventional supported Pd catalysts at suitable temperatures to selectively encapsulate the co-existed Pd nanoparticles(NPs)/clusters.This is based on our new finding that single atoms only manifest strong metal-support interaction(SMSI)at higher reduction temperature than that of NPs/clusters.The derived Pd SACs(Pd1/CeO2 and Pd1/a-Fe2O3)were applied to acetylene selective hydrogenation,exhibiting much improved ethylene selectivity and high stability.This work offers a promising way to develop stable Pd SACs easily.