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Pure In 2O 3 is considered as an efficient methanol steam reforming catalyst. Despite of several studies in the past decades, the mechanism of MSR on In 2O 3 is still not fully understood. In this work, a periodic density functional theory study of the initial dissociation of methanol and water over the In 2O 3 (110) surface is presented. The activation energy barriers and thermochemistry for several elementary steps are reported. It is found that the energy barriers for O-H bond cleavage of both CH 3OH and H 2O to produce CH 3O and OH species at a surface In-O pair site are very low, indicating that In 2O 3 (110) can facilely catalyze these two important processes at low temperatures. In addition, the subsequent dehydrogenation of CH 3O to CH 2O is also found to proceed with a low barrier. © 2012 SIOC, CAS, Shanghai, & WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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Chinese Journal of Chemistry
ISSN: 1001-604X
Year: 2012
Issue: 9
Volume: 30
Page: 2036-2040
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CAS Journal Grade:4
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