Abstract
MXene is a variety of new two-dimensional (2D) materials with early transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides. Quantum chemical studies have been carried out on the geometries, electronic structures, stability and catalytic properties of a non-noble metal single-atom catalyst (SAC) with single Co atom anchored on MXene materials of Mo2CS2. The Co adatom anchored on top of the Mo atom of this MXene is found to be rather stable, and this SAC is appropriate for CO oxidation. The charge transfers from the surface to the adsorbed CO and O2 play a significant role in the activation of these molecules on Co1/Mo2CS2. With this catalyst, the Eley-Rideal (ER), Langmuir-Hinshelwood (LH), and Termolecular Eley-Rideal (TER) mechanisms are explored for CO oxidation. We find that, while all the three mechanisms are feasible at low temperature, Co1/Mo2CS2 possesses higher catalytic activity for CO oxidation through the TER mechanism that features an intriguing OC(OO)CO intermediate (IM) adsorbed on Co single atom. The calculated activation energy barriers of the rate-limiting step are 0.67 eV (TER), 0.78 eV (LH) and 0.88 eV (ER), respectively. The present study illustrates that it is promising to develop and design low-cost, non-noble metal SACs using MXene types of 2D materials.
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MXene是一类由前过渡态金属碳化物、氮化物或碳氮化物 构成的新型二维材料. 我们利用量子化学方法研究了单原子Co在 新型二维MXene材料Mo2CS2上的吸附构型、稳定性和催化性质. 研究发现Co原子可以稳定锚定在MXene材料的表面, 形成的单原 子催化剂适合于催化低温CO氧化. 计算表明, 吸附的CO和O2分子 与Co1/Mo2CS2催化剂表面之间的电荷转移在活化这些小分子时起 着重要作用. 我们研究了Co1/Mo2CS2催化氧化CO的三种机理: Eley-Rideal (ER), Langmuir-Hinshelwood (LH)和Termolecular Eley-Rideal (TER), 发现在低温下这三种反应机理都是可行的. 其 中在Co1/Mo2CS2催化剂上TER机理具有最高的催化活性, 计算的决 速步能垒分别为0.67 (TER), 0.78 (LH)和0.88 eV (ER). 我们的研究 结果表明, 利用二维材料MXene发展和设计经济的、非贵金属单 原子催化剂具有重要应用前景.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21590792, 91426302, and 21433005), and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis (2020B121201002). Yu X thanks the National Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province (2019JM-226). Muhammad S is grateful to the financial and technical support from the Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS) at King Khalid University through the Grant (RCAMS/KKU/014-20). The calculations were performed using supercomputers at Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology.
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Li J designed the project. Talib SH and Yu X performed the calculations. All authors discussed and interpreted the data. Talib SH, Yu X and Li J co-wrote and revised the manuscript.
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Shamraiz Hussain Talib received a PhD degree at the Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Jun Li. He received his M. Phil degree (majored in chemistry) from the Department of Chemistry, Mohi-Ud-Din Islamic University, AJ&K, Pakistan in 2016. His PhD research focuses on the theoretical investigations on heterogeneous single-atom catalysts.
Xiaohu Yu received his PhD degree from the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. He did postdoctoral research at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from 2013 to 2015. He worked as visiting scholar in Prof. Jun Li’s group at Tsinghua University from 2019 to 2020. He is now an associate professor at Shaanxi University of Technology. His research interests focus on theoretical inorganic chemistry and computational catalysis science.
Jun Li received his PhD degree from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1992. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Siegen and The Ohio State University from 1994 to 1997. He worked as a research scientist at The Ohio State University and a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 1997 to 2009. He is now a full professor at Tsinghua University. His research involves theoretical chemistry, heavy-element chemistry, and computational catalysis science.
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Talib, S.H., Baskaran, S., Yu, X. et al. Non-noble metal single-atom catalyst of Co1/MXene (Mo2CS2) for CO oxidation. Sci. China Mater. 64, 651–663 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-020-1458-5
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