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Ville Korpelin
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Kultapinnan S(CH2)xN3-adsorbaattien laskennallinen värähdysdynamiikka ja 2DIR-spektroskopia molekyylidynamiikkamenetelmin
2018
Tehtiin MD-simulaatiot kultapinnan siltapaikkoihin kahdella eri peitolla (1/3 ja 1/4) yksikerrokseksi asetetuille pitkä- ja lyhytketjuisille S(CH2)xN3-adsorbaateille (x = 2, 11). Kukin systeemi simuloitiin sekä tyhjiössä että vesiympäristössä. Simulaatioista määritettiin atsidiryhmien FFCF:t ja CLS:t odotusaikavälille t2 ∈ [0, 200] ps. Näihin sovitettiin multieksponentiaaliset funktiot ja havaittiin FFCF:n hitaiden komponenttien vastaavan CLS-komponentteja. Lisäksi tarkasteltiin mallia, joka esittää CLS:n ja FFCF:n välille suoraviivaisen yhteyden ja mahdollistaa Lorentzin ja Gaussin leveyksien määrittämisen. Malli todettiin hyvin toimivaksi simulaatioista saatujen tulosten tapauksessa. MD s…
Reducing the irreducible: Dispersed metal atoms facilitate reduction of irreducible oxides.
2021
Oxide reducibility is a central concept quantifying the role of the support in catalysis. While reducible oxides are often considered catalytically active, irreducible oxides are seen as inert supports. Enhancing the reducibility of irreducible oxides has, however, emerged as an effective way to increase their catalytic activity while retaining their inherent thermal stability. In this work, we focus on the prospect of using single metal atoms to increase the reducibility of a prototypical irreducible oxide, zirconia. Based on extensive self-consistent DFT+U calculations, we demonstrate that single metal atoms significantly improve and tune the surface reducibility of zirconia. Detailed ana…
Escaping scaling relationships for water dissociation at interfacial sites of zirconia-supported Rh and Pt clusters
2019
<p>Water dissociation is an important reaction involved in many industrial processes and a good model reaction for probing the activity of catalytic sites. In this computational study, the dissociation of water at interfacial sites of globally optimized ZrO2 sup- ported Pt and Rh clusters is investigated under the framework of density functional theory. Our findings demonstrate that the perimeter sites of these small clusters can activate water, but the dissociation behavior varies considerably between sites. It is shown that the studied clusters break scaling relationships for water dissociation, suggesting these catalysts may achieve activities beyond the maximum imposed by such rel…
ReO as a Brønsted acidic modifier in glycerol hydrodeoxygenation : Computational insight into the balance between acid and metal catalysis
2023
A computational study for the competitive conversion of glycerol to 1,2-propanediol and 1,3-propanediol is presented, considering a two-step sequence of dehydration followed by hydrogenation. The elementary steps for dehydration, i.e., breaking of C–H followed by C–OH or vice versa, were studied computationally both on the Rh metal surface and the acid-modified ReOH–Rh surface in order to understand the role of the acid promoter. While the acid modifier can catalyze the C–OH cleavage, the activation energy for the C–H cleavage was found to be considerably smaller on both pure and acid-doped Rh(111) surfaces, and breaking the secondary C–H bond is kinetically favored over breaking the termin…
Addressing Dynamics at Catalytic Heterogeneous Interfaces with DFT-MD: Anomalous Temperature Distributions from Commonly Used Thermostats.
2022
Density functional theory-based molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) has been widely used for studying the chemistry of heterogeneous interfacial systems under operational conditions. We report frequently overlooked errors in thermostated or constant-temperature DFT-MD simulations applied to study (electro)catalytic chemistry. Our results demonstrate that commonly used thermostats such as Nose−Hoover, Berendsen, and simple velocity rescaling methods fail to provide are liable temperature description for systems considered. Instead, nonconstant temperatures and large temperature gradients within the different parts of the system are observed. The errors are not a “feature” of any particular code but …