电合成
钌
氨
纳米颗粒
活动站点
吸附
密度泛函理论
氧化还原
氨生产
粒径
化学
无机化学
纳米技术
电化学
材料科学
计算化学
催化作用
有机化学
电极
物理化学
作者
Lin Hu,Hemanth Somarajan Pillai,Corbin Feit,Kaixiang Shi,Zhengning Gao,Parag Banerjee,Hongliang Xin,Xiaofeng Feng
出处
期刊:ACS energy letters
[American Chemical Society]
日期:2022-11-04
卷期号:7 (12): 4290-4298
被引量:13
标识
DOI:10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02175
摘要
Electrochemical N2 reduction reaction (NRR) provides an attractive approach toward sustainable NH3 production, while the design of electrocatalysts for NRR is hindered by the lack of knowledge of the structure–activity relationships and active sites. Here we report a prominent size-dependent activity for the NRR on Ru nanoparticles prepared by atomic layer deposition. As the Ru particle size increased from 2.1 to 8.4 nm, the mass activity and Faradaic efficiency for NH3 production both decreased monotonically, while the specific (Ru-surface-area-normalized) activity reached the highest value on 3.8 nm Ru nanoparticles but declined by 5-fold on 8.4 nm Ru nanoparticles. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations and free energy analysis of elementary steps revealed the Ru D5 step site, with its maximal population at ∼4 nm particles, as the active site for the NRR on Ru, because it favors the adsorption of the *N2H intermediate compared to other surface sites while not getting poisoned by the *NH2 intermediate.
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