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T1 Competition between molecular and dissociative adsorption of hydrogen on palladium clusters deposited on defective graphene
A1 Granja del Río, Alejandra
A1 Alonso Martín, Julio Alfonso
A1 Cabria Álvaro, Iván
A1 López Santodomingo, María José
K1 Carbono
K1 Química inorgánica
K1 Hidrógeno
AB The contribution of Pd doping to enhance the hydrogen storage capacity of porous carbon materials is investigated. Using the Density Functional Formalism, we have studied the competition between the molecular adsorption and the dissociative chemisorption of H2 on Pd clusters anchored on graphene vacancies. The molecular adsorption of H2 takes place with energies in the range of 0.7 - 0.3 eV for adsorption of one to six hydrogen molecules. Six molecules saturate the cluster, and additional hydrogen could only be adsorbed, with much smaller adsorption energies, at farther distances from the cluster. The dissociative chemisorption is the preferred adsorption channel from one to three hydrogen molecules, with adsorption energies in the range of 1.2 - 0.6 eV. After the first three molecules are dissociatively quemisorbed, three additional hydrogen molecules can be adsorbednon-dissociatively onto the Pd cluster with adsorption energies of 0.5 eV.The desorption of Pd-H complexes is prevented in all cases because the Pd clusters are firmly anchored to graphene vacancies. Our results are very promising and show that Pd clusters anchored on graphene vacancies retain their capacity to adsorb hydrogen and completely prevent the desorption of Pd-H complexes that would spoil the hydrogen releasing step of the cycle.
PB Royal Society of Chemistry
SN 2046-2069
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21477
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21477
LA eng
NO RSC Advances, 2015, Vol. 5, p. 47945 – 47953
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-abr-2024