• 文献标题:   Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane on a Single Pt Atom Supported by N-Doped Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GONG BB, WU H, SHENG L, ZHANG WH, WU XJ
  • 作者关键词:   density functional theory dft, singleatom catalyst, platinum, nitrogendoped graphene, ammonia borane hydrolysi
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
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  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.1c22972
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The hydrolysis of ammonia borane (NH3BH3 or AB) at room temperature is a promising method to produce hydrogen, but the complete reaction mechanism is still less investigated. Herein, the full hydrolysis process of the AB molecule on single Pt atom coordinated by two carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom (Pt-1-C2N1) on nitrogen doped graphene is investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) method. Our results demonstrate that the rate-limiting step is the formation of *BH2NH3 by breaking the first B-H bond in AB with an energy barrier of 0.68 eV, implying that Pt-1-C2N1 is a potential room-temperature catalyst for the full hydrolysis of AB. In addition, 27 more types of M-1-C2N1 (M represents transiton metal atom) and Pt-1 supported on nitrogen-doped graphene with different local coordination environments (Pt1-CxNy, x and y are the number of carbon and nitrogen atoms that coordinated with the platinum atom) are considered to screen out potential single-atom catalysts for AB hydrolysis. The screening results further show that Pt-1-C1N2 is another potential catalyst for AB hydrolysis. In particular, two hydrogen atoms precovered on Pt-1-C1N2, resulting in a lower energy barrier for the rate-limiting step than that on Pt-1-C2N1. This study provides a prototype of Pt-1-C1N2 and Pt-1-C2N1 for catalytic full hydrolysis of AB at room temperature.