Abstract
The effect of hydrogen on the growth mechanism of pyrocarbon has attracted much attention. The influence of hydrogen on the dissociation from CH4 to C2H2 on pristine graphene, N-doped graphene and vacancy graphene have been investigated by using density functional theory. There are two kinds of heterogeneous reaction pathways when the hydrogen is involved, i.e., dehydrogenation reactions and H-abstraction reactions. The transition state calculations were performed to acquire the reaction pathways on each substrate after obtaining the most stable adsorption configurations of the reactants and products. The results indicate that the adsorptions of reactants are not affected by hydrogen. The dehydrogenation reactions are more favored on vacancy graphene, and the H-abstraction reactions are more favored on the pristine graphene and N-doped graphene. The dehydrogenation reactions on the vacancy graphene are most favored among all these reactions in favor of the deposition of pyrocarbon. The dehydrogenation reactions on these three substrates are affected by hydrogen.
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