Citation: ZHENG Ming, ZHANG Hong-Xing, YUAN Fu-Long, PAN Qing-Jiang. Relativistic DFT Calculations of Interaction between Rutile TiO₂ Nanoparticle Clusters and Uranyl Species[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2018, 34(5): 874-882. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2018.120 shu

Relativistic DFT Calculations of Interaction between Rutile TiO₂ Nanoparticle Clusters and Uranyl Species

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Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry of Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China

Corresponding author: YUAN Fu-Long, panqjitc@163.com PAN Qing-Jiang, yuanfulong@hlju.edu.cn
Received Date: 28 October 2017
Revised Date: 7 February 2018

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The interaction between rutile TiO₂ nanoparticle clusters (NPCs) and aquouranyl species have been examined using a relativistic functional theory (DFT). Effects of NPCs with various layers (1~4) and different surface areas on structural parameters of uranium adsorption complexes as well as adsorption interaction energies were investigated. It is found that the two-layered (2L) NPC (labeled as 2L-Ti15) with a surface area of 1.1 nm×0.6 nm and containing 63 atoms can reasonably stand for experimentally real TiO₂ nanocrystallite. Moreover, the model is able to save computational resources. Calculations reveal a covalent bonding interaction in the 2L-Ti15-[(UO₂)(H₂O)₃]²⁺ complex. The direct evidences include that the bond lengths of U-O_surf were optimized to be 0.233~0.238 nm, which fall well within the range of U-O distances of reported uranyl complexes. The process that the NPC adsorbs aquouranyl species is exothermic in the gas phase, releasing energy of -3.02 eV; the consideration of environment media of solution results in a slightly uphill process, requiring 0.16 eV energy. The energetic decomposition indicates that U-O_surf bonds are dominated by orbital interactions, accounting for 94%; other factors show a little effect, although electrostatic attraction is a little larger than Pauli repulsion. Electron density-based QTAIM (quantum theory of atoms in molecule) analyses unravel that the U-O_surf interaction is a dative bond per se, whose strength is stronger than that of U-OH₂, but much weaker than that of U=O_yl. Inspection of wavefunction demonstrates that HOMO is contributed by O(2p) of NPC TiO₂ mixed with a small amount of σ(U=O) bonding character, while LUMO is U(5f)-based character modified by Ti(3d). The HOMO-LUMO gap was calculated to be 2.40 eV, which much narrower than the one of NPC semiconductor (3.35 eV). From a point of view of absorption spectra, the complex system would present a visible light-harvesting capability.
- rutile TiO₂ nanoparticle clusters,
- uranium contaminant,
- adsorption interaction nature,
- electronic structures,
- relativistic DFT
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