Stability of Pt Skin Intermetallic Core Catalysts and Adsorption Properties for the Oxygen Reduction ReactionClick to copy article linkArticle link copied!
- Seong Kyu KimSeong Kyu KimDepartment of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, KoreaMore by Seong Kyu Kim
- Kihyun ShinKihyun ShinDepartment of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United StatesMore by Kihyun Shin
- Graeme Henkelman*Graeme Henkelman*Email: [email protected]Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United StatesMore by Graeme Henkelman
Abstract
Density functional theory calculations were used to determine the stability of metal slabs consisting of a Pt surface monolayer and intermetallic supporting layers made from combinations of six transition metal elements (Pt, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Ag), as a model system for Pt skin intermetallic core nanoparticle catalysts. The stability of the slabs is largely determined by strain at the interface of the Pt skin and the subsurface intermetallic, which was described by a lattice matching parameter (r). The surface charge on the Pt skin was found to be correlated with the average electronegativity (EN) of the intermetallic core, so this average EN was used as a descriptor for how the electronic coupling (or ligand effect) affects adsorption energies. A total of 46 slabs were investigated in terms of their stability, from which 10 stable slabs were selected for further studies of adsorbate binding (OOH*, O*, and OH*) that are intermediates in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The correlation between all three adsorption energies and descriptors r and EN was found. Using a linear fit between our descriptors and the calculated adsorption energies, the overpotential for the ORR was obtained as a function of r and EN, from which a volcano plot was produced. The volcano peak was found at r = 0.96 or at EN = 2.025. Interestingly, neither r nor EN was a sufficient single reactivity descriptor as the data points were well off the general trend in both linear fits; this implies that both the strain effect and the ligand effect influence the adsorption energies, although they are partly correlated. The (r, EN) target peak parameters were used to screen over 241 intermetallic combinations of transition metal elements as active ORR activity. This analysis identified 11 intermetallic compounds which can support a Pt skin to have a high predicted ORR activity.
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