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SUBMITTER: Arevalo RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656674 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arevalo Ryan Lacdao RL Aspera Susan Meñez SM Escaño Mary Clare Sison MCS Nakanishi Hiroshi H Kasai Hideaki H
Scientific reports 20171025 1
The decomposition of methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) is a catalytically important reaction in the production of syngas that is used to make a wide spectrum of hydrocarbons and alcohols, and a principal carbon deposition pathway in methane reforming. Literatures suggest that stepped Ni surface is uniquely selective toward methane decomposition to atomic C, contrary to other catalysts that favor the CH fragment. In this paper, we used dispersion-corrected density functional theory-based first principles ...[more]