Relative stabilities of low index and stepped CeO2 surfaces from hybrid and GGA+U implementations of density functional theory
The relative stability of nine different well defined CeO2 surfaces has been studied by periodic density functional calculations using GGA + U and B3LYP exchange-correlation functional. Both methods consistently predict that CeO2(111) is the most stable surface and also provide a consistent picture...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/64038 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/64038 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cceria Oxide Surfaces Gga+U Dft https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.4 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | The relative stability of nine different well defined CeO2 surfaces has been studied by periodic density functional calculations using GGA + U and B3LYP exchange-correlation functional. Both methods consistently predict that CeO2(111) is the most stable surface and also provide a consistent picture of the most stable surfaces which indeed are in agreement with previous studies based on empirical interatomic potentials. The facility of ceria surfaces to undergo a redox process has been investigated by forcing spin-polarized solutions, which lead to the occupancy of Ce 4f orbitals. These calculations provide evidence that surfaces with low-coordinated Ce cations are likely to be reduced more easily than regular low-index Miller surfaces. |
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