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| author | Rafsanjani-Abbasi, Ali Buchner, Florian Lewis, Faith J. Puntscher, Lena Kraushofer, Florian Sombut, Panukorn Eder, Moritz Pavelec, Jiri Rheinfrank, Erik Franceschi, Giada Birschitzky, Viktor C. Riva, Michele Franchini, Cesare Schmid, Michael Diebold, Ulrike Meier, Matthias Madsen, Georg K. H. Parkinson, Gareth S. |
| author_facet | Rafsanjani-Abbasi, Ali Buchner, Florian Lewis, Faith J. Puntscher, Lena Kraushofer, Florian Sombut, Panukorn Eder, Moritz Pavelec, Jiri Rheinfrank, Erik Franceschi, Giada Birschitzky, Viktor C. Riva, Michele Franchini, Cesare Schmid, Michael Diebold, Ulrike Meier, Matthias Madsen, Georg K. H. Parkinson, Gareth S. |
| contents | Determining the local coordination of the active site is a pre-requisite for the reliable modeling of single-atom catalysts (SACs). Obtaining such information is difficult on powder-based systems, so much emphasis is placed on density functional theory-based computations based on idealized low-index surfaces of the support. In this work, we investigate how Pt atoms bind to the (1-102) facet of Fe2O3, a common support material in SAC. Using a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and an extensive computational evolutionary search, we find that Pt atoms significantly reconfigure the support lattice to facilitate a pseudo-linear coordination to surface oxygen atoms. Despite breaking three surface Fe-O bonds, this geometry is favored by 0.84 eV over the best configuration involving an unperturbed support. We suggest that the linear O-Pt-O configuration is common in reactive Pt-based SAC systems because it balances thermal stability with the ability to adsorb reactants from the gas phase, and that extensive structural searches are likely necessary to determine realistic active site geometry in single-atom catalysis. |
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| spellingShingle | Digging its own Site: Linear Coordination Stabilizes a Pt1/Fe2O3 Single-Atom Catalyst Rafsanjani-Abbasi, Ali Buchner, Florian Lewis, Faith J. Puntscher, Lena Kraushofer, Florian Sombut, Panukorn Eder, Moritz Pavelec, Jiri Rheinfrank, Erik Franceschi, Giada Birschitzky, Viktor C. Riva, Michele Franchini, Cesare Schmid, Michael Diebold, Ulrike Meier, Matthias Madsen, Georg K. H. Parkinson, Gareth S. Materials Science Determining the local coordination of the active site is a pre-requisite for the reliable modeling of single-atom catalysts (SACs). Obtaining such information is difficult on powder-based systems, so much emphasis is placed on density functional theory-based computations based on idealized low-index surfaces of the support. In this work, we investigate how Pt atoms bind to the (1-102) facet of Fe2O3, a common support material in SAC. Using a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and an extensive computational evolutionary search, we find that Pt atoms significantly reconfigure the support lattice to facilitate a pseudo-linear coordination to surface oxygen atoms. Despite breaking three surface Fe-O bonds, this geometry is favored by 0.84 eV over the best configuration involving an unperturbed support. We suggest that the linear O-Pt-O configuration is common in reactive Pt-based SAC systems because it balances thermal stability with the ability to adsorb reactants from the gas phase, and that extensive structural searches are likely necessary to determine realistic active site geometry in single-atom catalysis. |
| title | Digging its own Site: Linear Coordination Stabilizes a Pt1/Fe2O3 Single-Atom Catalyst |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18525 |