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. 2022 Feb 18;5:20. doi: 10.1038/s42004-022-00635-1

Fig. 3. Potential dependent anion adsorption on Pt(111) surface.

Fig. 3

a The most stable adsorption configurations of anions on the Pt(111) surface. Color coded: O: red, H: white, Cl: green, N: blue, and S: olive. b The adsorption free energies of the anions, ΔGadsorption(An) (eV), on the Pt(111) surface as a function of applied potential (V vs. RHE). The colored dashed lines qualitatively shows the trends in ΔGadsorption(An) at higher potentials relevant for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Since the Pt(111) surface undergoes surface oxidation at these high potentials, we further calculated ΔGadsorption(An) trends on a PtO2(110) surface as shown in Supplementary Fig. 5 and Supplementary Table 4. Anion species color-coded: black (H2O/OH/O2–), blue (ClO4), red (NO3), and olive (HSO4/SO42). HER/HOR, and ORR stand for hydrogen evolution/oxidation reaction and oxygen reduction reaction, respectively.