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Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5(17), p. 3544-3549, 2015

DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04766d

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Role of Oxygen Vacancies in the Surface Evolution of H at CeO2(111): A Charge Modification Effect

Journal article published in 2014 by Xin-Ping Wu ORCID, Xue-Qing Gong, Guanzhong Lu
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Abstract

Diffusions and reactions of H at stoichiometric and reduced CeO2(111) surfaces have been studied by using density functional theory calculations corrected by on-site Coulomb interactions (DFT+U). Oxygen vacancies on the surface are determined to be able to significantly affect the behavior of H by modifying the charge of surface lattice O through the occurrence of Ce3+. It has been found that, at the reduced CeO2(111) surface, the adsorption strength of H as well as the H coupling barrier can be dramatically reduced compared to those at the stoichiometric surface, while H2O formation barrier is not significantly affected. Moreover, the diffusion of H at the reduced surface or into the bulk can occur more readily than that at stoichiometric CeO2(111).