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| author | Allen, Kevin Lane, Christopher Morosan, Emilia Zhu, Jian-Xin |
| author_facet | Allen, Kevin Lane, Christopher Morosan, Emilia Zhu, Jian-Xin |
| contents | For large-scale deployment and use of polymer electrolyte fuel cells, high-performance electrocatalysts with low platinum consumption are desirable. One promising strategy to meet this demand is to explore alternative materials that retain catalytic efficiency while introducing new mechanisms for performance enhacement. In this study, we investigate a ferromagnetic CoPt as a candidate material to accelerate oxygen reduction reactions. By using density functional theory calculations, we find the spin-polarized Co-$d$ states to enhance O$_2$ surface bonding due to local exchange splitting of Co-$d$ carriers at the Fermi level. Furthermore, O and O$_2$ adsorption and dissociation energies are found to be tuned by varying the thickness of the Pt layers. Our study gives insight into the role magnetism plays in the oxygen reduction reaction process and how magnetic ions may aid in the design of new advanced catalysts. |
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| spellingShingle | Magnetism Enhanced Surface Bonding of O$_{2}$ on CoPt Allen, Kevin Lane, Christopher Morosan, Emilia Zhu, Jian-Xin Materials Science For large-scale deployment and use of polymer electrolyte fuel cells, high-performance electrocatalysts with low platinum consumption are desirable. One promising strategy to meet this demand is to explore alternative materials that retain catalytic efficiency while introducing new mechanisms for performance enhacement. In this study, we investigate a ferromagnetic CoPt as a candidate material to accelerate oxygen reduction reactions. By using density functional theory calculations, we find the spin-polarized Co-$d$ states to enhance O$_2$ surface bonding due to local exchange splitting of Co-$d$ carriers at the Fermi level. Furthermore, O and O$_2$ adsorption and dissociation energies are found to be tuned by varying the thickness of the Pt layers. Our study gives insight into the role magnetism plays in the oxygen reduction reaction process and how magnetic ions may aid in the design of new advanced catalysts. |
| title | Magnetism Enhanced Surface Bonding of O$_{2}$ on CoPt |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21766 |