Assessing factors that determine adatom migration and clustering on a thin film oxide; Pt1 and Rh1 on the "29" CuxO/Cu(111) surface
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE(2023)
摘要
The dynamical nature of single-site catalysts under non-equilibrium conditions poses significant challenges in the full characterization of their active sites. The "29" oxide is a thin CuxO film grown on Cu(1 1 1) which provides a well-defined surface on which to study the structure and chemistry of atomically dispersed precious metals. A combination of experimental and first-principles approaches is used to investigate the factors that influence the mobility of metal adatoms and their clustering tendencies. Our work elucidates how a homogenous coordination environment of neutral single-atoms can be obtained when its tendency to break oxide bonds within its vicinity is low. We demonstrate that this in turn affects the chemical activity of atomically dispersed species on thin-film oxides, as defects on the oxide would in fact allow such species to be more accessible to CO. We thus high-light the importance of understanding the relationship between defects and atomically dispersed active sites upon designing single-site catalysts.
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Single -site catalysts,Stability,Surface science,Support effects,Density functional theory
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