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Support effects on adsorption and catalytic activation of O-2 in single atom iron catalysts with graphene-based substrates

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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 20, 期 10, 页码 7333-7341

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08301g

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [91545122]
  2. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [B2015RCY03, 2017XS121]

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The adsorption and catalytic activation of O-2 on single atom iron catalysts with graphene-based substrates were investigated systematically by density functional theory calculation. It is found that the support effects of graphene-based substrates have a significant influence on the stability of the single atom catalysts, the adsorption configuration, the electron transfer mechanism, the adsorption energy and the energy barrier. The differences in the stable adsorption configuration of O-2 on single atom iron catalysts with different graphene-based substrates can be well understood by the symmetrical matching principle based on frontier molecular orbital analysis. There are two different mechanisms of electron transfer, in which the Fe atom acts as the electron donor in single vacancy graphene-based substrates while the Fe atom mainly acts as the bridge for electron transfer in double vacancy graphene-based substrates. The Fermi softness and work function are good descriptors of the adsorption energy and they can well reveal the relationship between electronic structure and adsorption energy. This single atom iron catalyst with single vacancy graphene modified by three nitrogen atoms is a promising non-noble metal single atom catalyst in the adsorption and catalytic oxidation of O-2. Furthermore, the findings can lay the foundation for the further study of graphene-based support effects and provide a guideline for the development and design of new non-noble-metal single atom catalysts.

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