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Naseeha Cardwell1, Alyssa J R Hensley1,2, Yong Wang1,3
1The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States.
Mean-field models accurately predict aromatic adsorption on transition metals, deconvoluting surface and through-space interactions. This approach rapidly forecasts adsorption energy across all coverages, significantly reducing computational costs for catalytic hydrodeoxygenation studies.
Area of Science:
- Surface Science
- Catalysis
- Computational Chemistry
Background:
- Catalytic hydrodeoxygenation is crucial for upgrading biomass.
- Understanding aromatic adsorption on transition metals is key to catalyst design.
- Existing models struggle to capture coverage-dependent interactions.
Purpose of the Study:
- Develop universal mean-field models for oxygenated aromatics on transition-metal surfaces.
- Deconvolute surface-mediated and through-space interactions.
- Predict adsorption energy across the full coverage range.
Main Methods:
- Developed coverage-dependent mean-field models.
- Applied models to Pt(111) and Ru(0001) surfaces.
- Utilized work function at lowest coverage for prediction.
Main Results:
- Mean-field models universally capture coverage-dependent behavior.
- Successfully deconvoluted surface-mediated and through-space interactions.
- Achieved accurate adsorption energy predictions using work function.
Conclusions:
- Mean-field models provide a rapid and accurate approach for studying aromatic adsorption.
- The method significantly reduces computational cost by an order of magnitude.
- Enables efficient prediction of catalytic hydrodeoxygenation system behavior.
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