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    Atomic-Scale Insights Into Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation Over Bimetallic Iron-Cobalt Catalysts: a Density Functional Theory Study
    (MDPI, 2023) Kızılkaya, Ali Can; Kızılkaya, Ali Can; 03.02. Department of Chemical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    The conversion of carbon dioxide to fuels and chemicals is a promising long-term approach for mitigating CO2 emissions. Despite extensive experimental efforts, a fundamental understanding of the bimetallic catalytic structures that selectively produce the desired products is still lacking. Here, we report on a computational surface science approach into the effect of the Fe doping of Co(111) surfaces in relation to CO2 hydrogenation to C1 products. Our results indicate that Fe doping increases the binding strength of surface species but slightly decreases the overall catalytic activity due to an increase in the rate-limiting step of CO dissociation. FeCo(111) surfaces hinder hydrogenation reactions due to lower H coverages and higher activation energies. These effects are linked to the Lewis basic character of the Fe atoms in FeCo(111), leading to an increased charge on the adsorbates. The main effect of Fe doping is identified as the inhibition of oxygen removal from cobalt surfaces, which can be expected to lead to the formation of oxidic phases on bimetallic FeCo catalysts. Overall, our study provides comprehensive mechanistic insights related to the effect of Fe doping on the catalytic behavior and structural evolution of FeCo bimetallic catalysts, which can contribute to the rational design of bimetallic catalysts.
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    Effect of Ammonia on Cobalt Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts: a Surface Science Approach
    (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019) Kızılkaya, Ali Can; Kızılkaya, Ali Can; Weststrate, C. J.; 03.02. Department of Chemical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Ammonia adsorption and decomposition on defect-rich hcp-Co(0001) surfaces were investigated under ultra-high vacuum conditions in order to provide a fundamental explanation for industrially observed ammonia poisoning of cobalt based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalysts. Temperature-programmed desorption, infrared spectroscopy and work function measurements indicate that undercoordinated sites bind ammonia stronger than sites on flat Co(0001), and they also induce its dehydrogenation. Density functional theory calculations were employed to explore the reactivity of defective Co surfaces using the fcc-Co(211) as a model. The results indicate that the decomposition products (NH x ) adsorb strongly on or around the step site on fcc-Co(211). We find that NH (+2H ad ), adsorbed in the threefold site on the upper terrace, is equally stable as NH 2 (+H ad ), adsorbed in the bridge position at the step edge, both being significantly more stable than the equivalent species adsorbed on the flat Co(0001). The calculated activation barriers for NH 3,ad dehydrogenation steps are in reasonable agreement with the barriers obtained by fitting experimental data. Based on these fundamental insights, poisoning of cobalt nanoparticles during FTS by NH 3 contaminants can be linked mainly to the blocking of undercoordinated sites by strongly adsorbed NH 2 species.