DFT modeling of the oxygen electroreduction reaction on SiN3-doped carbon nanotubes

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The thermodynamic features and mechanism of the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction were studied using the revPBE0-D3(BJ)/Def2-TZVP method on the example of (6,6)-armchair carbon nanotube doped with a tricoordinated silicon atom and nitrogen atoms of pyridinic and graphitic nature. Irreversible oxidation of the silicon center as a result of the formation of stable oxygen-containing adsorbates was shown. It was found that Si-poisoned structures are capable of participating in the catalysis of the target reaction along two- and four-electron routes at high overpotentials. For a nanotube doped simultaneously with pyridinic and graphitic nitrogens the potential possibility of eliminating the silicon atom from the catalyst composition in the form of orthosilicic acid and the participation of a silicon-free nitrogen-doped framework in the oxygen electroreduction reaction, for which the stage of tautomerization of pyridin-2(1H)-one to pyridin-2-ol is the limiting step was shown.

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А. V. Kuzmin

A. E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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2. Fig.1. Fragments of model structures of SiN3-doped (6,6)-chair carbon nanotubes SiN3/CNT (a) and SiN3/N3CNT (b).

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3. Fig.2. Catalytic cycles of 2e- (a) and 4e-routes (b) of the oxygen reduction reaction in an acidic medium.

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4. Fig.3. Structures of intermediates and free energy profiles of the catalytic cycle of the oxygen reduction reaction on model catalysts SiN3/CNT (a, c) and SiN3/N3CNT (b, d) at three electrode potentials.

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5. Fig.4. Structures of O2*-adsorbates on Si-poisoned catalysts: Si(O)(OH)N3/CNT (a), Si(OH)2N3/CNT (b), Si(O)(OH)N3/N3CNT (c) and Si(OH)2N3/N3CNT (g). Below the structures are the corresponding values ​​of DE and DG, eV (in parentheses). The DG values ​​calculated using the formula DG(O2*) = 0.99DE + 0.81 are marked in red. The most stable adsorbates are highlighted with a dotted line.

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6. Fig.5. Free energy profiles of oxygen reduction reaction intermediates on model catalysts Si(O)(OH)N3/CNT (a) and Si(OH)2N3/CNT (b) at U = 0.85 and U = 0 V, respectively.

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7. Fig.6. Free energy profiles of oxygen reduction reaction intermediates on model catalysts Si(O)(OH)N3/N3CNT (a) and Si(OH)2N3/N3CNT (b) at U = 0.3 V.

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8. Fig.7. Free energy profile of intermediates of the 4e dissociative route of the oxygen reduction reaction on the model catalyst N3/N3CNT at U = 0.

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