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{"title":"Semi-metallic reconfiguration induced by asymmetrically interatomic-interactions accelerate electrochemical nitrate reduction","authors":"Ming Meng ,&nbsp;JiaLi Zhang ,&nbsp;Yi Song ,&nbsp;Jian Li ,&nbsp;Yanling Hao ,&nbsp;Yun Shan","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122702","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122702","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective conversion from nitrate to ammonia using an electrochemical method is attracting much attention, but which has to face the difficulty of lower conversion performance and unavoidable competing reaction. Herein, we develop an intriguing surface engineering strategy to reorganize orderly the electronic structures of catalysts, in which the superficial Cu sites can be asymmetrically hybridized with internal Fe atoms through an indirect orbital interaction, finally leading to a semi-metallic characteristic to optimize the adsorption or dissociation process of nitrates. The comprehensive calculations confirm that the potential barriers at the rate-limiting steps can be effectively decreased due to their appropriate bonding interaction with reactants. More importantly, the competing hydrogen evolution reaction is also suppressed. This work suggests a feasible strategy to accelerate nitrate reduction by particular catalyst surface engineering.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"755 ","pages":"Article 122702"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143128933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethanol dehydrogenation and autocatalytic dehydration on oxidized Cu(111)","authors":"Joseph C. Loiselet,&nbsp;Mollie M. Corbett,&nbsp;James T. Whitted,&nbsp;Erin D. Schell,&nbsp;Ashleigh E. Baber","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122699","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122699","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exploring the formation of valuable chemical feedstocks from renewable sources is critical for decreasing global dependence on fossil fuels. The decomposition of ethanol forms acetaldehyde, a solvent and precursor for dyes, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and more; ethylene, which is crucial for the plastics industry; and clean hydrogen, a necessity for all hydrogenation reactions. While it is well known that Cu(111) and oxidized Cu(111) catalyze the dehydrogenation of small primary alcohols to form aldehydes, dehydration products to form alkenes are less discussed. An in depth study of the reactivity of ethanol on O/Cu(111) shows dehydrogenation, dehydration, and combustion products using temperature programmed reaction spectroscopy (TPRS). The presence of oxygen on O/Cu(111) resulted predominantly in acetaldehyde formation via the dehydrogenation pathway, with lesser amounts of ethylene via dehydration, as well as combustion products. Successive TPRS experiments resulted in decreased yields of all products due to the consumption of surface oxygen via water formation &lt;200 K. Isotopic studies of ethanol–OD indicate the role of the hydroxyl hydrogen in water formation from O_ads compared to water that desorbs during dehydration, as well as hydrogen formation via the dehydrogenation pathway. The dehydration pathway is proposed to occur via autocatalytic production of O_ads during the ethoxy transformation to ethylene, furthering the reaction to form ethylene and CO₂.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"755 ","pages":"Article 122699"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regulating the redox of a bimetallic catalyst for synchronous enhancement of acrylonitrile conversion and N2 selectivity","authors":"Shupei Yin ,&nbsp;Siya Deng ,&nbsp;Chengyan Li ,&nbsp;Yang Yue ,&nbsp;Guangren Qian ,&nbsp;Jia Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122698","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A key problem of the catalytic oxidisation of nitrogen-containing volatile organic compounds (NVOCs) is to regulate the redox property of the catalyst. A too low oxidability results in low conversion; however, a too high oxidability produces undesired by-products such as N₂O and NO_x. In this study, Ce, Cu, Mn and V were loaded on TiO₂ and applied in the catalytic oxidisation of acrylonitrile. Results revealed that Ce-doped TiO₂ simultaneously showed better conversion (99 %) and N₂ selectivity (95.3 %) than the other catalysts at 210 °C. However, the high selectivity was swiftly decreased to 74.5 % at 240 °C. After co-doping of Cu, the high selectivity was maintained above 89.8 % within 210 °C–270 °C. Meanwhile, catalytic conversions were close to 100 %. These ensured a stable catalytic performance even when the catalytic temperature was unusually high due to NVOC catalytic burning. Surface chemistry analyses showed that the redox potential of Ce-doped TiO₂ was restrained after Cu doping, thus resulting in stable high N₂ selectivity. This study presents a successful example of redox regulation by combining transition metals with different oxidabilities, which would develop more suitable catalysts for pollutants with unique catalytic requirements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143151037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of tensile strain on photoelectric properties of C-doped SnSe2 system","authors":"Miaomiao Lou ,&nbsp;Guili Liu ,&nbsp;Meng Xu ,&nbsp;Yuan Liu ,&nbsp;Guoying Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122697","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122697","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The geometric structure, stability, electronic structure and optical properties of the pristine SnSe₂ and C-doped SnSe₂ systems under tensile strain were computed using first principles. The findings indicate that the Sn-Se bond of the C-doped SnSe₂ system is longer than that of the pristine SnSe₂ system under the same tensile strain, and all systems in the low strain range can be stably formed. The electronic structure indicates that pristine SnSe₂ is an indirect bandgap semiconductor. Under the action of tensile strain, the introduction of C atoms leads to a transformation of the band gap type. The valence band of the C-doped SnSe₂ system is mainly attributed to the Se-4p and Sn-5p orbitals, while the conduction band is primarily assigned by Se-4p, Sn-5s and C-2p orbitals.The optical properties show that the peaks of ε₁(ω) and ε₂(ω) of both the pristine and doped systems are red-shifted under tensile strain, and the dielectric function ε₂(ω), absorption and reflection peaks of the doped system are lower than those of the pristine system, indicating that the introduction of C atoms can effectively improve the conductivity of the materials. Meanwhile, the absorption peak of the doped system was blue-shifted to the high-energy region relative to that of the pristine system. Under the action of tensile strain, the reflection peak of the pristine SnSe₂ system is redshifted, indicating that the tensile strain improves the utilization rate of the SnSe₂ system for ultraviolet light and can be used as an excellent alternative material for ultraviolet light detectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143151035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structure determination by low-energy electron diffraction—A roadmap to the future","authors":"Georg Held","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122696","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122696","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Of all experimental Surface Science techniques, LEED-IV surface crystallography delivers the most complete set of crystallographic data for the near-surface regions (down to <span><math><mrow><mo>≈</mo><mn>10</mn></mrow></math></span> Å below the surface) of ordered single crystal surfaces. In the last five decades a large number of surface structures have been determined but theoretical and experimental procedures need to be adopted to meet the requirements of new directions in Surface Science. In this perspective article approaches will be discussed for extracting structural information from disordered and rough surfaces, increasing the experimental data set for large unit cells with complex unit cells, improving the scattering potentials used to calculate LEED-IV curves, and expanding the pressure range of the technique.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122696"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143151724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intercalation of Mn in a few layers of NbSe2 by molecular beam epitaxy","authors":"Vimukthi Pathirage,&nbsp;Salma Khatun,&nbsp;Matthias Batzill","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122695","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122695","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modifications of NbSe₂ ultrathin films by intercalation of Mn ions is investigated. The synthesis consists of a two-step approach. First NbSe₂ ultrathin films are grown by van der Waals epitaxy on either graphite (HOPG) or MoS₂ substrates. Optimized growth conditions show that at low growth temperatures of 250 °C phase-pure NbSe₂ is obtained. These films are then modified by a topotactical reaction with small amounts of vapor deposited Mn atoms. It is shown by combination of x-ray photoemission spectroscopy and low energy He-ion scattering spectroscopy that 0.2 to 0.3 monolayer-equivalent amounts of Mn atoms can react with the NbSe₂ and intercalate in between NbSe₂ layers before Mn adsorption occurs at the surface. The intercalation is confirmed by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The Mn ions remain disordered in the intercalation layer as evidenced by STM and low energy electron diffraction. Although the Mn²⁺ ions are in a high spin state long range magnetic ordering may be frustrated by the structural disorder. Nevertheless, the demonstration of hetero-TM intercalation into TMD layers is an important step in the synthesis of van der Waals crystals modified by elements with large magnetic moments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122695"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143150347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rationalizing the “anomalous” electrochemical Stark shift of CO at Pt(111) through vibrational spectroscopy and density-functional theory calculations","authors":"Elias Diesen ,&nbsp;Mehmet Ugur Coskun ,&nbsp;Sergio Díaz-Coello ,&nbsp;Vanessa J. Bukas ,&nbsp;Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser ,&nbsp;Karsten Reuter","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122694","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2025.122694","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We employ infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS) and first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) to revisit the reported “anomalous” negative Stark shift of the CO stretch frequency at Pt(111) in aqueous electrolyte. Our comprehensive IRRAS measurements confirm the existence of a potential region with negative Stark shift around 0.5<!--> <!-->V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode, but only at a sufficiently high CO concentration in the electrolyte. As these are exactly the same conditions for the occurrence of a phase transition from a <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>-3CO to a <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><msqrt><mrow><mn>19</mn></mrow></msqrt><mo>×</mo><msqrt><mrow><mn>19</mn></mrow></msqrt><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>R23.4<span><math><mo>°</mo></math></span>-13CO adsorbate structure, we explicitly compute the Stark shift for these two phases using DFT. Neither phase exhibits a negative Stark shift, but the absolute stretch frequencies of the atop CO in the two structures are slightly shifted with respect to each other. Remeasuring IRRAS with high resolution indeed reveals a doublet character of the absorption band in the potential region corresponding to the negative Stark shift. Separate fits of the two components then yield positive Stark shifts in quantitative agreement with the calculated values. The “anomalous” negative Stark shift simply arises from effectively fitting one component to a doublet spectral feature in a potential range with phase coexistence at the surface.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122694"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143151725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hydrogen complexes on single-atom alloys: A combined DFT – Kinetic Monte Carlo study","authors":"Emanuel Colombi Manzi ,&nbsp;Michail Stamatakis ,&nbsp;Giovanni Di Liberto ,&nbsp;Gianfranco Pacchioni","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2024.122688","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2024.122688","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Single-Atom Catalysts (SACs) are a new class of solid catalysts with potential applications in a wide spectrum of chemical reactions. The family of Single Atom Alloys (SAAs) is promising for hydrogen-related reactions. One interesting aspect of SACs is that their chemistry is reminiscent of coordination chemistry, and a pertinent example is the formation of dihydrogen complexes in hydrogen-related reactions with similarities to coordination compounds. The formation of these hydrogen complexes has been suggested also for SAAs, based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In this work, we conducted a study combining DFT with Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) to investigate the formation of hydrogen complexes on a set of SAAs. We scrutinized 14 SAAs with DFT and performed KMC simulations on three relevant cases. Our study considers explicitly the kinetic barriers for the formation and decomposition of these complexes to elucidate the kinetics of the adsorption of molecular H₂ on SAAs. The results indicate that the new species can be relevant depending both on their stability and the reaction barriers involved. In particular, we focused on three test cases, Co@Rh(111), Pd@Rh(111) and Co@Au(111) showing that the formation of dihydrogen species, H₂*, where * indicates an adsorbed complex, can affect the formation of the complex from molecular H₂.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143151026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Surface grain orientation mapping using grazing incidence X-ray diffraction","authors":"Hanna Sjö ,&nbsp;Anatoly Shabalin ,&nbsp;Ulrich Lienert ,&nbsp;Johan Hektor ,&nbsp;Andreas Schaefer ,&nbsp;Per-Anders Carlsson ,&nbsp;Carl Alwmark ,&nbsp;Johan Gustafson","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2024.122693","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2024.122693","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tomographic surface X-ray diffraction (TSXRD) is an adaptation of classic surface X-ray diffraction to allow for measurements of polycrystalline surfaces. Compared to most other surface-sensitive techniques, surface X-ray diffraction has advantages in <em>operando</em> studies, since it can provide crystallographic information about surface structures in high gas pressures (above atmospheric) as well as through liquids. The method has, however, so far been limited to ideal samples, such as single crystals, since the long beam footprint illuminates several grains, which, with conventional SXRD, prevents an assignment of the diffraction signal and thus the structural information, to a certain grain. Here, we present the first step in the development of TSXRD, in which the grain shapes and orientations on a polycrystalline surface can be mapped using grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. The resulting knowledge about the shape, position, and orientation of the grains at the surface will be the steppingstone for further SXRD analysis of polycrystalline surfaces, allowing us to identify which diffraction signals belong to which grain. This method is thus part of opening up SXRD as a method for <em>operando</em> studies of more industry-relevant samples. Our grain maps are compared to those obtained with electron back-scatter diffraction measurements of the same sample, confirming the validity of the method.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122693"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143150346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A DFT study on the structural properties and CO2 electrocatalytic reduction activity of monolayer graphitic carbon nitride supported Ag/Au single atom catalysts","authors":"Hui-Ling Shui ,&nbsp;Gao-Yi Li ,&nbsp;Chao Fu ,&nbsp;Dong-Heng Li ,&nbsp;Xiao-Qin Liang ,&nbsp;Kai Li ,&nbsp;Laicai Li ,&nbsp;Yan Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.susc.2024.122692","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.susc.2024.122692","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, the DFT has been utilized to research the structural characteristics and CO₂ reduction performances of g-C₃N₄ supported Ag and Au single-atom electrocatalysts, namely Ag-C₃N₄ and Au-C₃N₄ respectively. The constructed structures have been optimized and both the electron density and charge density difference have been calculated, confirming the stability of the constructed single-atom catalysts (SACs). As demonstrated by charge density difference analysis, the CO₂ undergoes chemical adsorption on Ag-C₃N₄ and Au-C₃N₄, resulting in the activation of CO₂. Furthermore, the microscopic mechanisms for the formation of HCOOH, CO, CH₃OH and CH₄ from electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR) on these SACs have been fully investigated. Specifically, all structures of the reactants, products, and intermediates have been optimized, and their adsorption energy, zero-point energy, and free energy changes have been calculated. Subsequently, the product selectivity differences between Ag-C₃N₄ and Au-C₃N₄ catalysts are compared. Our findings show that Ag-C₃N₄ catalyzes CO₂ to CH₃OH and CH₄ with similar efficiency, while Au-C₃N₄ more effectively facilitates the conversion of CO₂ to CH₃OH over HCOOH and CH₄. Furthermore, by analyzing the free energy change values of rate-determining step for generating four types of C1 products, we find that Ag-C₃N₄ exhibits superior CO₂ catalytic performance over Au-C₃N₄. Moreover, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) on these catalysts has been investigated, revealing that HER is inhibited on both catalyst surfaces. This finding emphasizes the preferential electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ on these catalysts. Through calculations of the energy band and density of state of the catalysts, it is found that the energy gap of Ag-C₃N₄ is smaller than that of Au-C₃N₄. This correlation suggests that a smaller energy gap is indicative of stronger catalytic activity, which is further evidenced by the higher activity of Ag-C₃N₄ in the electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ compared to Au-C₃N₄. Our results reveal that both Ag-C₃N₄ and Au-C₃N₄ exhibit strong activity in the electrocatalytic CRR. These results establish a theoretical basis for the development of single-atom catalysts (SACs) that can efficiently reduce CO₂ through electrocatalysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22100,"journal":{"name":"Surface Science","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 122692"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143150348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}