Core Level Shifts of Hydrogenated Pyridinic and Pyrrolic Nitrogen in the Nitrogen-Containing Graphene-Based Electrocatalysts: In-Plane vs Edge Defects
Abstract
A combination of N 1s X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and first principles calculations of nitrogen-containing model electrocatalysts was used to elucidate the nature of the nitrogen defects that contribute to the binding energy (BE) range of the N 1s XPS spectra of these materials above ~400 eV. Experimental core level shifts were obtained for a set of model materials, namely N-doped carbon nanospheres, Fe–N–carbon nanospheres, polypyrrole, polypyridine, and pyridinium chloride, and were compared to the shifts calculated using density functional theory. The results confirm that the broad peak positioned at ~400.7 eV in the N 1s XPS spectra of N-containing catalysts, which is typically assigned to pyrrolic nitrogen, contains contributions from other hydrogenated nitrogen species such as hydrogenated pyridinic functionalities. Namely, N 1s BEs of hydrogenated pyridinic-N and pyrrolic-N were calculated as 400.6 and 400.7 eV, respectively, using the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functional. A special emphasis was placed on the study of the differences in the XPS imprint of N-containing defects that are situated in the plane and on the edges of the graphene sheet. Density functional theory calculations for BEs of the N 1s of in-plane and edge defects show that hydrogenated N defects are more sensitive to the changemore »
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- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Center for Microengineered materials
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1369185
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-16-27267
Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 51; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Material Science
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Matanovic, Ivana, Artyushkova, Kateryna, Strand, Matthew B., Dzara, Michael J., Pylypenko, Svitlana, and Atanassov, Plamen. Core Level Shifts of Hydrogenated Pyridinic and Pyrrolic Nitrogen in the Nitrogen-Containing Graphene-Based Electrocatalysts: In-Plane vs Edge Defects. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09778.
Matanovic, Ivana, Artyushkova, Kateryna, Strand, Matthew B., Dzara, Michael J., Pylypenko, Svitlana, & Atanassov, Plamen. Core Level Shifts of Hydrogenated Pyridinic and Pyrrolic Nitrogen in the Nitrogen-Containing Graphene-Based Electrocatalysts: In-Plane vs Edge Defects. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09778
Matanovic, Ivana, Artyushkova, Kateryna, Strand, Matthew B., Dzara, Michael J., Pylypenko, Svitlana, and Atanassov, Plamen. Wed .
"Core Level Shifts of Hydrogenated Pyridinic and Pyrrolic Nitrogen in the Nitrogen-Containing Graphene-Based Electrocatalysts: In-Plane vs Edge Defects". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09778. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1369185.
@article{osti_1369185,
title = {Core Level Shifts of Hydrogenated Pyridinic and Pyrrolic Nitrogen in the Nitrogen-Containing Graphene-Based Electrocatalysts: In-Plane vs Edge Defects},
author = {Matanovic, Ivana and Artyushkova, Kateryna and Strand, Matthew B. and Dzara, Michael J. and Pylypenko, Svitlana and Atanassov, Plamen},
abstractNote = {A combination of N 1s X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and first principles calculations of nitrogen-containing model electrocatalysts was used to elucidate the nature of the nitrogen defects that contribute to the binding energy (BE) range of the N 1s XPS spectra of these materials above ~400 eV. Experimental core level shifts were obtained for a set of model materials, namely N-doped carbon nanospheres, Fe–N–carbon nanospheres, polypyrrole, polypyridine, and pyridinium chloride, and were compared to the shifts calculated using density functional theory. The results confirm that the broad peak positioned at ~400.7 eV in the N 1s XPS spectra of N-containing catalysts, which is typically assigned to pyrrolic nitrogen, contains contributions from other hydrogenated nitrogen species such as hydrogenated pyridinic functionalities. Namely, N 1s BEs of hydrogenated pyridinic-N and pyrrolic-N were calculated as 400.6 and 400.7 eV, respectively, using the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functional. A special emphasis was placed on the study of the differences in the XPS imprint of N-containing defects that are situated in the plane and on the edges of the graphene sheet. Density functional theory calculations for BEs of the N 1s of in-plane and edge defects show that hydrogenated N defects are more sensitive to the change in the chemical environment in the carbon matrix than the non-hydrogenated N defects. In conclusion, calculations also show that edge-hydrogenated pyridinic-N and pyrrolic-N defects only contribute to the N 1s XPS peak located at ~400.7 eV if the graphene edges are oxygenated or terminated with bare carbon atoms.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09778},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},
number = 51,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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