First-Principles Comparison of Proton and Divalent Copper Cation Exchange Energy Landscapes in SSZ-13 Zeolite

Autor: Imke B. Müller, Hui Li, Rajamani Gounder, Anthony Debellis, Ahmad Moini, Subramanian Prasad, William F. Schneider, Sichi Li
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122:23564-23573
ISSN: 1932-7455
1932-7447
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07213
Popis: The relative proximity of Al atoms substituted in zeolite lattices is an important parameter that influences both hydrothermal stability and catalytic function, but the underlying chemistry that governs Al site proximity is not well understood. Here, we examine relationships between exchanged countercations and different Al–Al arrangements in a chabazite (SSZ-13) zeolite lattice. We report periodic supercell density functional theory (DFT) calculations for structures and energies of SSZ-13 lattices with systematically enumerated and varied Al–Al proximity, both charge-uncompensated and charge-compensated by either proton pairs (H+/H+) or divalent copper cations (Cu2+). Al–Al interactions are electrostatically repulsive without charge compensation, but the relative energies of certain Al–Al site arrangements change upon compensation by countercations. Al–Al interactions are uniformly attractive when compensated by H+/H+ pairs but are attractive at long and repulsive at short Al–Al distances when compensate...
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