Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (8): 1427-1431.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1088.2012.20526

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Effect of Pd Doping on Water Dissociation on ZnO(1120) Surface

GU Xiangkui, DING Wuchen, HUANG Chuanqi, LI Weixue*   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China
  • Received:2012-05-15 Revised:2012-05-30 Online:2012-08-01 Published:2012-08-01

Abstract: Water monomer adsorption and dissociation on clean and Pd-doped ZnO(1120) surface were investigated by using density functional theory calculations. It was found that water monomer on clean ZnO(1120) prefers the molecular adsorption rather than dissociation. However, its dissociation on Pd-doped ZnO became exothermic with reaction energy of -0.21 eV and kinetically facile with barrier of 0.36 eV, due to enhanced bonding strength of the product OH and H.

Key words: palladium, doping, zinc oxide, water, dissociation, density functional theory