• 文献标题:   A density functional theory analysis for the adsorption of the amine group on graphene and boron nitride nanosheets
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ANOTA EC, JUAREZ AR, CASTRO M, COCOLETZI HH
  • 作者关键词:   amine, boron nitride, cnhm cluster, dft theory, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
  • ISSN:   1610-2940 EI 0948-5023
  • 通讯作者地址:   Benemerita Univ Autonoma Puebla
  • 被引频次:   42
  • DOI:   10.1007/s00894-012-1539-4
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

In this paper first principles total energy calculations to study the adsorption of amine group (NH2) on graphene (G) and boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets are developed; the density functional theory, within the local density approximation and Perdew-Wang functional was employed. The sheets were modeled with a sufficiently proved CnHm-like cluster with armchair edge. The optimized geometry was obtained following the minimum energy criterion, searching on four positions for each nanosheet: perpendicular to the carbon atom, on the hexagon, inside the hexagon and on the bridge C-C, for the G-amine interaction; and, perpendicular to the B, perpendicular to the N, on the hexagon, and inside the hexagon, for the hBN-amine interaction. A physisorption, with amine parallel to the C-C-C bond with a distance graphene-amine of 2.56 , was found. For the case of BN a B-N bond, with bond length equal to 1.56 , was found; the amine lies perpendicular to the nanosheet. When the graphene is doped with B and Al atoms a chemisorption with B-N (1.57 ) and Al-N (1.78 ) bonds is observed; the bond angle in the amine group is also incremented, 5.5A degrees and 8.1A degrees, respectively. In the presence of point defects (monovacancies) of B in the hBN-amine and C in the G-amine, there exists chemisorption, increasing the reactivity of the sheets.