Abstract
Alkali metal (Cs/Li/Na) adsorption on (5, 5) and (9, 0) single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a capped edge had been investigated by first-principles calculations. Our calculations are performed within density functional theory (DFT) under the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) of Perdew, Burke, and Ernzerhof (PBE).For the indefective (5, 5)/(9, 0) CNT, adsorption energy ordering of the alkali-metal adatoms is Cs>Li>Na so that the Cs adsorption was energetically favored with respect to the Li/Na adatom. However, the adsorption energy ordering of the alkali-metal adatoms for the defective (5, 5) CNT was Li>Cs>Na. Therefore, separation selectivity for alkali metals could be actualized using the capped single-walled carbon nanotubes. The (5, 5)/(9, 0) P-CNT adsorbed Cs atoms preferentially, while the (5, 5)/(9, 0) defective CNT (D-CNT) adsorbed Li atoms advantageously.
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