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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 9, 期 18, 页码 5574-5582出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01870
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- University College London
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- EPSRC [EP/L000202, EP/P020194/1]
- EPSRC [EP/P020194/1, EP/L000202/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The interface between transition metal oxides (TMO) and liquid water plays a crucial role in environmental chemistry, catalysis, and energy science. Yet, the mechanism and energetics of chemical transformations at solvated TMO surfaces is often unclear, largely because of the difficulty to characterize the active surface species experimentally. The hematite (alpha-Fe2O3)-liquid water interface is a case in point. Here we demonstrate that ab initio molecular dynamics is a viable tool for determining the protonation states of complex interfaces. The pK a values of the oxygen-terminated (001) surface group of hematite, OH,and half-layer terminated (012) surface groups, (OH)-O-2 and (OH2)-O-1, are predicted to be (18.5 +/- 0.3), (18.9 +/- 0.6), and (10.3 +/- 0.5) pK(a) units, respectively. These are in good agreement with recent bond-valence theory based estimates, and suggest that the deprotonation of these surfaces require significantly more free energy input than previously thought.
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