CO Coverage Effects on Pt(111) from First-Principles Calculations

Abstract

ABSTRACTCO saturation coverage on Pt(111) is crucially important in diesel oxidation catalysis. We systematically studied high coverage CO adsorption on the Pt(111) surface using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and classical Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The zero-coverage limit CO adsorption energy at different binding sites is almost degenerate at the revised Perdew–Burke–Erzernhof functional (RPBE) level. As CO populates the surface, strong through-space repulsion and substrate-mediated metal sharing tends to dominate the stability of adsorbates and alter their binding preferences. The calculated differential binding energy curve and adsorption patterns compare well with experiments.