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Coinage and Pt-group metal surfaces stability

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dc.contributor Viñes Solana, Francesc
dc.creator Ruvireta Jurado, Judit
dc.date 2016-07-26T11:46:16Z
dc.date 2016-07-26T11:46:16Z
dc.date 2016-06
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:22:52Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:22:52Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/101280
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/15027
dc.description Treballs Finals de Grau de Química, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2016, Tutor: Francesc Viñes Solana
dc.description Coinable (Cu, Ni, Ag, Au) and Pt-group metals (Pt, Pd, Ir, Rh) are face centered cubic (fcc) transition metals used in catalysis as active phases, usually in the form of nanoparticles. These nanoparticles mostly expose most stable surfaces, which are the main responsible of the interaction with reagents. Here we studied, by Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations using slab models, the surface stability, in terms of surface energy, relaxation, degree of compression, and coordination number. The most stable surfaces studied are those with higher degree of compression and lowest Miller index, such as (111), (011), and (001) surfaces, which a priori are the most stable ones. Results were obtained, comparing and commenting two levels of computation, either using the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) or the Tao-Perdew-Staroverov-Scuseria (TPSS) exchange-correlation functionals. The results suggest that the surface energy shows the typically parabolic dependence on the d band occupation in transition metals. It is also found that (111) surface is the most stable one because of its higher degree of compression, lower energy relaxation and surface energy. Furthermore, TPSS functional gives better surface energies with higher accuracies yet the data are more difficult to obtain. In contrast, semi-empirical methods can only be used for qualitative studies as they are just good giving trends of surface energy
dc.format 53 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Ruvireta, 2016
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Treballs Finals de Grau (TFG) - Química
dc.subject Química de superfícies
dc.subject Metalls de transició
dc.subject Teoria del funcional de densitat
dc.subject Treballs de fi de grau
dc.subject Surface chemistry
dc.subject Transition metals
dc.subject Density functionals
dc.subject Bachelor's theses
dc.title Coinage and Pt-group metal surfaces stability
dc.title Estabilitat de superfícies de metalls encunyables i del grup del Pt
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis


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