TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyanide-modified Pt(111)
T2 - structure, stability and hydrogen adsorption
AU - Escudero-Escribano, Maria
AU - Soldano, German J.
AU - Quaino, Paola
AU - Zoloff Michoff, Martin E.
AU - Leiva, Ezequiel P. M.
AU - Schmickler, Wolfgang
AU - Cuesta, Angel
N1 - A.C. acknowledges the support of the DGI (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) through Project CTQ2009-07017. W.S. acknowledges financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Schm 344/40-1, Schm 344/34-1.2 and FOR 1376. W.S. and P.Q. thank DFG-CONICET International Cooperation and CONICET for continued support. E.P.M.L. and M.Z.-M. wish to acknowledge CONICET PIP: 112-200801-000983, Secyt UNC, Program BID (PICT 2006N 946), and PME: 2006-01581 for financial support. P.Q. acknowledges PICT 0737-2008. A generous grant of computing time from the Baden-Wuerttemberg grid is gratefully acknowledged. M.E.-E. acknowledges an FPI fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and an accommodation grant at the Residencia de Estudiantes from the Madrid City Council.
PY - 2012/11/1
Y1 - 2012/11/1
N2 - Cyanide-modified Pt(1 1 1) surfaces have been recently used to study atomic-ensemble effects in electrocatalysis. These studies have been based on the assumption that cyanide acts as a third body, blocking some surface sites but leaving the electronic properties of the surrounding ones unaltered, although this is in apparent contradiction with the observation of a positive shift of 0.2 V in the onset of hydrogen adsorption on cyanide-modified Pt(1 1 1) electrodes, as compared with clean Pt(1 1 1). We have performed theoretical calculations in order to provide support to this assumption and explain the positive shift in the onset of hydrogen adsorption, which is shown to be due to the formation of CNHad.
AB - Cyanide-modified Pt(1 1 1) surfaces have been recently used to study atomic-ensemble effects in electrocatalysis. These studies have been based on the assumption that cyanide acts as a third body, blocking some surface sites but leaving the electronic properties of the surrounding ones unaltered, although this is in apparent contradiction with the observation of a positive shift of 0.2 V in the onset of hydrogen adsorption on cyanide-modified Pt(1 1 1) electrodes, as compared with clean Pt(1 1 1). We have performed theoretical calculations in order to provide support to this assumption and explain the positive shift in the onset of hydrogen adsorption, which is shown to be due to the formation of CNHad.
KW - cyanide-modified Pt(1 1 1)
KW - DFT
KW - hydrogen adsorption
U2 - 10.1016/j.electacta.2012.02.062
DO - 10.1016/j.electacta.2012.02.062
M3 - Article
VL - 82
SP - 524
EP - 533
JO - Electrochimica Acta
JF - Electrochimica Acta
SN - 0013-4686
ER -