Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Physical Chemistry C Année : 2024

Electrocatalytic Reduction Mechanisms of CO2 on MoS2 Edges Using Grand-Canonical DFT : From CO2 Adsorption to HCOOH or CO

Muhammad Akif Ramzan
Stephan N. Steinmann
Pascal Raybaud

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Efficiently converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable fuels or chemicals represents one of the great challenges at the core of current scientific researches. Here, we report a DFT-based theoretical study of the reactivity of two main MoS2024-06-10 edges for electrocatalytic, or eventually photocatalytic, reduction of CO2024-06-10. By explicitly accounting for the electrode potential via a grand-canonical ensemble that controls the number of electrons, we show that the two edges exhibit different H coverage which, in turn, directly influences the CO2024-06-10 -reduction energy profile under relevant reducing potentials. Specifically, on S-edge, a 0.375 ML H coverage enables the CO2 activation through its adsorption in a bidentate mode with a limiting potential of 0.07 V vs. SHE. By contrast, H coverage on Mo-edge at reducing potentials relevant for CO2024-06-10 reduction was determined to be 0 ML. On this bare Mo-edge, CO2 activation occurs at an additional energy cost of 0.44 eV for -0.80 V. Consequently, the activated CO2 on S-edge exhibits comparable and thermodynamically favorable reactivity for the two possible two-electron products, formic acid and carbon monoxide (CO), with limiting potentials of -0.54 V and -0.34 V, respectively. The two products, however, show different desorption behavior with CO desorption being endergonic and independent of electrode potential. Conversely, the reactivity of Mo-edge is less favored and it is anticipated to favor formic acid over CO due to a highly endergonic C-O bond-breaking step in the adsorbed COOH intermediate. This step was determined to be exergonic on S-edge.This study paves the way for a better understanding of CO2 reduction mechanisms on MoS2 edges and highlights the key role of the CO2 adsorption step which was generally neglected in prior investigations.
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hal-04704301 , version 1 (20-09-2024)

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Muhammad Akif Ramzan, Rémi Favre, Stephan N. Steinmann, Tangui Le Bahers, Pascal Raybaud. Electrocatalytic Reduction Mechanisms of CO2 on MoS2 Edges Using Grand-Canonical DFT : From CO2 Adsorption to HCOOH or CO. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024, 128 (24), pp.10025-10034. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c03266⟩. ⟨hal-04704301⟩
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