Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 121, Issue 11, Pages 6072-6080Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11356
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21303006]
- Hebei Normal University of Science Technology
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The dissociation of methanol plays a vital role in many reactions of Cl chemistry. The effect of defects on methanol dissociation is unclear. The adsorption and reactivity of methanol on the anatase TiO2(101) surface with or without a subsurface oxygen vacancy (V-O(sub)) have been studied using first-principles calculations. The adsorbed methanol on the perfect surface prefers the molecular state with a dissociation energy barrier of 0.56 eV. Interestingly, the adsorption and reactivity of methanol are greatly promoted by V-O(sub). Upon methanol adsorption, the predominant V-O(sub) on the clean surface becomes active, which is comparable to the surface oxygen vacancy (V-O(sur)) . The V-O(sub) migrates from the subsurface to the surface layer with a low energy barrier of 0.17 eV, and then the adsorbed methanol molecule easily dissociates through a barrierless pathway facilitated by V-O(sur). Such results clearly reveal that the V-O(sub) plays a vital role in the dissociation of methanol. These results may provide new insights into photocatalytic activity of organic molecules on anatase TiO2 nanoparticles.
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