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Title: Pt8 cluster on alumina under a pressure of hydrogen: Support-dependent reconstruction from first-principles global optimization

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5129296 · OSTI ID:1594248

Alumina supported Pt nano clusters under hydrogen environment play a crucial role for many heterogeneous catalysis applications. As such, we conducted grand canonical genetic algorithm (GCGA) simulations for supported Pt8 clusters in hydrogen gas environment to study the intra-cluster, cluster-support, and cluster-adsorbate interactions. Two alumina surfaces, α-Al2O3(0001) and $$γ$$-Al2O3(100), and two conditions T=600°C, pH2 = 0.1bar and T=25°C, pH2 = 1.0 bar were considered corresponding to low and high hydrogen chemical potential $$μ$$H, respectively. The low free energy ensemble of Pt8 is decorated by a medium (2–12 H), resp. high (20–30 H), number of hydrogen atoms under equilibrium at low $$μ$$H, respectively, high $$μ$$H, and undergoes different morphology transformations on the two surfaces. On α-Al2O3(0001), Pt8 is mostly 3D but very fluxional in structure at low μH and converts to open one-layer 2D structures with minimal fluxionality at high μH, whereas on $$γ$$-Al2O3(100), the exact opposite occurs, and Pt8 clusters present one-layer 2D shapes at low $$μ$$H and switch into compact 3D shapes under high $$μ$$H, during which the Pt8 cluster preserves moderate fluxionality. Further analysis reveals similar Pt–Pt bond length increase when switching from low $$μ$$H to high $$μ$$H on both surfaces, though morphology transformations are different. Electronic structure analysis shows the existence of bonding interactions between Pt and Lewis acidic Al3+ sites along with the Pt – O interaction, which implies the necessity to include Al neighbors to discuss the electronic structure of small Pt clusters.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019152; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1594248
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 19 Vol. 151; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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