Abstract
Adsorption of CO2 on α-Pu (020) surface nanolayers is investigated using GGA-DFT and the suite of software DMOL3 and WIEN2k. Completely dissociated configurations (C+O+O) exhibit the strongest binding with the surface (7.94 eV), followed by partially dissociated (CO+O) and molecular CO2 configurations (5.18 and 1.90 eV, respectively). For initial vertically upright orientations, final configuration of the CO 2 molecule does not change after optimization. For initial flat lying orientations, the final states correspond to bent geometry with a bond angle of ∼130°. For CO+O coadsorptions, the stable configurations correspond to CO dipole moment orientations of 105°-167° with respect to the normal surface.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1710-1717 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Adsorption
- Alpha-Plutonium
- Carbon Dioxide
- Density Functional Theory
- Nanolayers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- General Materials Science
- Computational Mathematics
- General Chemistry