DFT STUDY OF METHYL (CH3) AND HYDROXYL (OH) ADSORPTION ON A GOLD (001) SURFACE

G. B. Bouka-Pivoteau (), M. N’dollo, B. R. Malonda-Boungou (), B. Maloumbi (), P. S. Moussounda () and T. Dintzer ()
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G. B. Bouka-Pivoteau: Groupe de Simulations Numériques en Magnétisme et Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, B. P. 69, Brazzaville, Congo
M. N’dollo: Groupe de Simulations Numériques en Magnétisme et Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, B. P. 69, Brazzaville, Congo
B. R. Malonda-Boungou: Groupe de Simulations Numériques en Magnétisme et Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, B. P. 69, Brazzaville, Congo
B. Maloumbi: Groupe de Simulations Numériques en Magnétisme et Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, B. P. 69, Brazzaville, Congo
P. S. Moussounda: Groupe de Simulations Numériques en Magnétisme et Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, B. P. 69, Brazzaville, Congo
T. Dintzer: Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l’Energie l’Environnement et la Santé (ICPEES), École européenne de Chimie, Polyméres et Matériaux, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 2019, vol. 26, issue 05, 1-16

Abstract: We used the DACAPO code with the GGA-PW91 approximation to study the adsorption of methyl (CH3) and hydroxyl (OH) for four- and five-layer gold (Au) (001) slabs. We have determined for each species the best binding site, adsorption energy, the change in the work function, surface energy, surface dipole moment, geometrical parameters and projected density of states (PDOS). We performed spin-unpolarized and spin-polarized DFT calculations for free and adsorbed CH3 and OH species. The most important point is that the spin polarization diminishes the adsorption energies but does not change the geometrical parameters. For the CH3 species, only the top site was found to be stable for different coverages. We found that during the optimization phase, the hollow and bridge sites were found to be unstable. In both cases the CH3 species moves toward the top site. We observe that the adsorption energy decreases when increasing the coverage. However, the OH species was stable in all investigated sites (top, bridge and hollow). We notice that the adsorption energy is dependent on the number of slab layers and the bridge is the best site in adsorption energy. The analysis of the calculated O PDOS of OH radical shows a mixing between the O orbitals and the Au bands.

Keywords: Adsorption; methyl; hydroxyl; gold (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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