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Trends of Alkane Activation on Doped Cobalt (II, III) Oxide from First Principles

Trends of Alkane Activation on Doped Cobalt (II, III) Oxide from First Principles
Franklin (Feng) Tao, Victor Fung, De-en Jiang
The surface doping of a metal oxide can tune its catalytic performance, but it remains unclear how the tuning depends on the dopant type and the surface facet. Herein we study doped Co3O4 (1 1 1) and (3 1 1) surface facets using first-principles density functional theory (DFT) to obtain general descriptors for oxygen reactivity (which include vacancy formation energy and hydrogen adsorption energy) and correlate them to ethane C−H activation energy as a measure of the catalytic performance. The periodic trends of the dopants are investigated for a total of 20 dopants, namely, the elements from K to Ge. We find strong linear correlations between the oxygen reactivity descriptors and the computed energy barriers. We also discover a strong surface facet sensitivity among certain dopants such that different surface orientations and sites lead to different or even the opposite dopant performance. This work provides a useful guide for dopant performance in ethane activation on the two very different Co3O4 surfaces. Sensitive to doping: A systematic analysis of oxygen reactivity and a has been performed for ethane C−H activation on doped Co3O4 (1 1 1) and (3 1 1) surfaces. Trends and correlations are found that will provide a useful guide for dopant performance in ethane activation on the surfaces of transition metal oxides.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201700960

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