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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering >> 2013, Volume 7, Issue 3 doi: 10.1007/s11783-013-0491-6

Ammonia adsorption on graphene and graphene oxide: a first-principles study

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Available online: 2013-06-01

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Abstract

Motivated by the recent realization of graphene sensor to detect gas molecules that are harmful to the environment, the ammonia adsorption on graphene or graphene oxide (GO) was investigated using first-principles calculation. The optimal adsorption and orientation of the NH molecules on the graphene surfaces were determined, and the adsorption energies ( ) as well as the Mulliken charge transfers of NH were calculated. The for the graphene are small and seem to be independent of the sites and orientations. The surface epoxy or hydroxyl groups can promote the adsorption of NH on the GO; the enhancement of the for the hydroxyl groups is greater than that for the epoxy groups on the surface. The charge transfers from the molecule to the surfaces also exhibit the same trend. The Br?nsted acid sites and Lewis acid sites could stably exist on the GO with surface hydroxyl groups and on the basal, respectively.

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