Dissociative chemisorption of methane on Ni(111) using a chemically accurate fifteen dimensional potential energy surface

• Published in: Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Vol. 19; no. 45; pp. 354 - 355
• Main Authors: Zhou, Xueyao, Nattino, Francesco, Zhang, Yaolong, Chen, Jun, Kroes, Geert-Jan, Guo, Hua, Jiang, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
• Subjects: Chemisorption; Energy consumption; Energy of dissociation; Methane; Neural networks; Periodic variations; Permutations; Potential energy; Surface chemistry; Temperature effects
• ISSN: 1463-9076; 1463-9084
• DOI: 10.1039/c7cp05993k

A fifteen-dimensional global potential energy surface for the dissociative chemisorption of methane on the rigid Ni(111) surface is developed by a high fidelity fit of ∼200 000 DFT energy points computed using a specific reaction parameter density functional designed to reproduce experimental data. The permutation symmetry and surface periodicity are rigorously enforced using the permutation invariant polynomial-neural network approach. The fitting accuracy of the potential energy surface is thoroughly investigated by examining both static and dynamical attributes of CHD 3 dissociation on the frozen surface. This potential energy surface is expected to be chemically accurate as after correction for surface temperature effects it reproduces the measured initial sticking probabilities of CHD 3 on Ni(111) for various incidence conditions. A new chemically accurate potential energy surface for the dissociative chemisorption of methane on the rigid Ni(111) surface.