1. Aluminum cluster for CO and O2 adsorption.
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Samanta, Bipasa, Sengupta, Turbasu, and Pal, Sourav
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ALUMINUM alloys ,OXYGEN ,CARBON dioxide adsorption ,METALS at low temperatures ,SILVER clusters - Abstract
Low temperature oxidation of CO to CO
2 is an important process for the environment. Similarly adsorption of CO from the releasing sources is also of major concern today. Whereas the potential of gold and silver clusters is well proven for the catalysis of the above mentioned reaction, the potential of aluminum (Al) clusters remains unexplored. The present study proves that, similar to the transition metals, Al clusters can also be used for adsorption of gases. We first tested the potential of Al cluster as adsorbents for CO. The high binding energy (BE) values prove that Al clusters can be used for adsorbing both CO and O2 . Since oxygen binding is more facile, we adsorbed oxygen on Al and then checked the effect of this O2 on the BE of CO. The results were obtained by DFT calculations at M062X/TZVP level of theory.Activation of carbon monoxide (CO) on oxygen-adsorbed aluminum (Al) cluster [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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