XPK

        通过拓展唯象反应动力学(PK)的应用,开发了精确高效的微观动力学模拟新方法XPK1)。在保持精度与原理严格的动力学蒙特卡洛模拟(kMC)基本一致的同时,效率大幅度提升。XPK将极大推动多相催化的精细模拟,从简单的模型体系拓展至复杂的真实体系。针对原位条件下多相催化内在的不均匀性,超越平均场近似,精确地考虑覆盖度效应和不同位点间的协同效应等。XPK已经被应用于多个真实多相催化体系的理论模拟,包括氨分解、CO氧化、甲酸分解、合成气转化,水汽变换等。


1. (a-c) XPK实现的简易流程图通过原理严格的kMC测试XPK(d)精度和(e)效率。



        得益于PK形式,我们在XPK中引入“最大速率分析”(或Sabatier分析),克服了快反应和决速步之间的时间尺度分离难题,进一步提高了模拟效率(图2)。在XPK模拟结果的基础上,一种新型自由能图的构建被提出,可以直观地呈现决速态,以及覆盖度效应等对反应速率、反应级数和表观活化能等宏观可观测量的影响。


2. (a-b)引入“最大速率分析”前后,XPK模拟效率的对比。(c) 引入“最大速率分析”后,各基元反应在模拟中的采样频次。


通过XPK模拟和理论分析了高温高压下Rh(111)表面合成气催化转化的过程,我们揭示了动态的、中间体特异性的“共吸附微环境”决定了反应的活性和乙醛选择性。而常用的静态的、均匀的“共吸附模型”,则无法获得与实验一直的选择性变化规律。


3. 动态的、中间体特异性的“共吸附微环境”示意图。大体积物种虽然和共吸附物种具有较大的排斥,但它同时也可以维持一个局域的低覆盖度,提高高覆盖度下的稳定性。



Publications:

  1. Yali Ji, Zheng Chen, Ruilin Wei, Chao Yang, Yuhang Wang, Jie Xu, Hao Zhang, Anxiang Guan, Jiatang Chen, Tsun-Kong Sham, Jun Luo, Yaoyue Yang, Xin Xu*, and Gengfeng Zheng,* ‘Selective CO-to-acetate electroproduction via intermediate adsorption tuning on ordered Cu-Pd sites’, Nat. Catal., 2022, 5, 251-258. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00757-8.

  2. Yuqi Yang, Tonghao Shen, Xin Xu*, ‘Towards the Rational Design of Pt-based Alloy Catalysts for the Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reaction: from Bulk to Single Atom Alloy’, Chem. Sci. , 2022, 13(21), 6385 – 6396. DOI:10.1039/d2sc01729f.

  3. Tonghao Shen, Yuqi Yang, Xin Xu*, 'Structure-reactivity relationship for nano-catalysts in the hydrogenation/dehydrogenation controlled reaction systems', Angew. Chem.Int. Ed., 2021, 60(50):26342-26345. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202109942.

  4. Zheng Chen, Zhangyun Liu, Xin Xu*, 'Coverage-dependent microkinetics in heterogeneous catalysis powered by the maximum rate analysis', ACS Catal., 2021, 11 (15): 9333-9344. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c01997.

  5. Zheng Chen, He Wang, Zhangyun Liu, Xin Xu*, 'Dynamic and intermediate-specific local coverage controls the syngas conversion on Rh(111) surfaces: An operando theoretical analysis',  ACS Catal., 2021, 11 (7): 3830-3841. DOI:10.1021/acscatal.0c05070.

  6. Chen Ding, Tonghao Shen, Yuqi Yang, Xin Xu*, ‘Involvement of the Vacancy Site Changes the Kinetic Trend Significantly: A Case Study on Formic Acid Decomposition’, ACS Catal., 2020, 10(9), 5153-5162. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c00361.

  7. He Wang, Tonghao Shen, Sai Duan, Zheng Chen, Xin Xu*, ‘Bistable Phenomena in CO Oxidation on Metal Surfaces: An Understanding from Extended Phenomenological Kinetics (XPK) Simulations’, ACS Catal., 2019, 9, 11116-11124. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b03407.

  8. Zheng Chen, He Wang, Neil Qiang Su, Sai Duan, Tonghao Shen, Xin Xu*, ‘Beyond the Mean-Field Microkinetics: Towards the Accurate and Efficient Theoretical Modelling in Heterogeneous Catalysis’, ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 5816-5826. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00943.