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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 2568-2573Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00536
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [CTQ2015-68770-R]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (Severo Ochoa Excellence Accreditation) [SEV-2013-0319]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (Severo Ochoa predoctoral grant) [SVP-2014-068237]
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Molybdenum oxides are finding increasing applications that rely on their redox character. For the most common polymorph, alpha-MoO3, oxygen vacancy formation leaves two electrons on the surface that can be stored as small polarons. Detailed density functional theory calculations that properly account for the self-interaction term, U-eff = 3.5 eV, show that the vacancy generates two different configurations: either two Mo5+ centers (Mo5+square and Mo5+ = O) or a single double-reduced Mo4+. These states are separated by 0.22 eV with a barrier for interconversion of 0.33 eV, and thus both are populated at catalytic temperatures, as shown by first-principles molecular dynamics. At higher reduction levels, vacancies can only be accumulated along a preferential direction and the energy difference between the 2xMo(5+) and Mo4+ configurations is reduced. These results point out the need for a revision of the experimental assignments based on our characterization that includes charges, vibrational frequencies, and XPS signatures.
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