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Article

CO2 Absorption on Cu-Doped Graphene, a DFT Study

by
Juan Oseas López Fuentes
1,
Roxana Mitzayé del Castillo Vázquez
1 and
Juan Manuel Ramirez-de-Arellano
2,*
1
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
2
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Calle del Puente 222, Mexico City 14380, Mexico
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Crystals 2025, 15(5), 460; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst15050460
Submission received: 4 April 2025 / Revised: 8 May 2025 / Accepted: 12 May 2025 / Published: 14 May 2025
(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
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Abstract

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We studied the interaction between a Cu-doped graphene layer and a CO2 molecule, using DFT, ab initio calculations, and the pseudopotential formalism. We used the Quantum ESPRESSO code package, with the PBE XC functional expression and the semiempirical Grimme’s DFT-D3 Van der Waals correction. We found that the Cu atom, being absorbed in a C vacancy on the graphene surface, has a catalytic effect on the absorption of CO2 in said surface. The Van der Waals correction calculations showed that the CO2 is physisorbed, with an adsorption energy of −0.1786 eV. Our results are congruent with previously published results. The Cu-doped graphene surface could be suitable for the development of a CO2 sensor.

1. Introduction

It is well established that graphene—a 2D carbon allotrope—has a variety of exceptional electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties [1,2,3,4]. These properties make graphene quite interesting, as they open a wide range of potential applications in different fields like aerospace, materials, and electronics [5,6,7]. Graphene can also help develop environmental monitoring and sensing technologies, for instance, when combined with metal sulfides [8]. Common sulfide semiconductors used in combination with graphene for gas sensors include MoS2, ZnS, SnS2, and CdS. They are used to detect several pollutant gases like nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2) [8,9]. Sensors based on epitaxial graphene can detect NO2 levels in the range between 5 and 50 parts per billion [10], and the addition of cuprous oxide (Cu2O) can also enhance the sensing properties of NO2 for graphene–metal sulfide-based gas sensors [11]. A recent work combining DFT calculations and experimentation [12] considered transition metal doping of graphene for the detection of both NO2 and CO2. In that work, the interactions studied were, on one hand, the absorption of CO2 by (Fe, Ni, Zn)-doped graphene, and on the other hand, that of NO2 by (Mn, Co, Cu)-doped graphene. It was found that all interactions considered resulted in chemisorption, and the particular case of Cu-doped graphene interacting with CO2 was not studied in that work.
Although the formation energy of single vacancies in graphene is relatively high, the feasibility of a Cu atom absorbed in the place of such a vacancy is validated by the fact that single vacancies have been extensively observed in previous experiments [13,14,15,16,17].
Cu is also used in Cu/ZnO particles to catalyze partial CO2 hydrogenation to methanol when supported in graphitic carbon structures [18]. Graphene-based optical, electrochemical, and electronic sensors are also being developed for water monitoring, targeting mercury ions (Hg2+) and other heavy metals [19,20,21].
Of particular interest is the sensing of CO2, which generally shows a weak interaction with graphene-based materials [22,23,24]. There are different strategies to enhance the sensing properties of graphene-based systems. These include using epitaxial growth to obtain controlled graphene layers [10,25], composite formation to improve selectivity [26], and doping or functionalizing graphene surfaces [20]. Recent advances in heteroatom doping have unlocked new avenues to tailor graphene’s chemical reactivity and electronic structure [27]. For instance, nitrogen doping of graphene—in the form of graphitic-N and pyridinic-N defects—has been shown to catalyze CO2 physisorption [28] or even chemisorption with the aid of an electric field [27].
First-principles studies have found the CO2 absorption and sensing performance of MN4-doped graphene, where M stands for different transition metals, including Cu. For the CuN4 G case, the CO2 is found to be physisorbed [28]. A tetracyanoethylene-modified graphene surface has also been considered as a potential sensor for CO2 [24]. Others have quantified the adsorption of CO2 on Cu-functionalized graphene, finding the former is chemisorbed for a Cu7/graphene system [23].
Copper is sufficiently abundant in the environment—it is the 26th most abundant element [29]—and Cu doping preserves graphene’s high surface area and conductivity and catalyzes its adsorption capabilities. This makes technologies based on Cu-doped graphene a promising addition to the expanding set of techniques for CO2 mitigation and detection [30,31]. In this work, we use DFT calculations of CO2 adsorption on a Cu-doped graphene sheet to further understand the role of dopant geometry and charge transfer in their interactions, offering a predictive framework for experimental validation. As global efforts to combat climate change intensify, understanding these absorption mechanisms can help develop scalable CO2 management and precision environmental monitoring technologies.

2. Materials and Methods

Applying Density Functional Theory (DFT) [32,33,34] methods, we performed ab initio calculations, under the Born–Oppenheimer approximation [35]. The initial structures used in this work were obtained from the Crystallography Open Database (COD) [36,37,38,39]. In particular, structures labeled 1010492 for CO2 [40] and 1200017 for graphite [41] were the base for building the unit cells studied in this work.
We used the open-source software package Quantum ESPRESSO, which considers periodic boundary conditions and plane waves for the basis set [42,43]. The Troullier–Martins norm-conserving pseudopotentials were also used, in the Kleinman–Bylander entirely separable form [44,45,46]. We considered the GGA approximation for the exchange and correlation energies, with the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof expression [47] as well as the semiempirical Grimme’s DFT–D3 van der Waals correction [48]. The program cif2cell [49] was used to transform the COD CIF structures into the Quantum ESPRESSO format.
The valence electronic states were considered as follows: for carbon: 2s22p2; for oxygen: 2s22p4; for copper: 4s1.53d9.5. The cut-off radii for the pseudopotentials considered are, for carbon: rs = 0.529 Å and rp = 0.476 Å; for oxygen: rs = rp = 0.529 Å; for copper: rs = rp = 0.688 Å. The calculations reported in this work are non-relativistic and non-polarized, because we are not interested in the magnetic properties of the system.
After a standard parameter optimization procedure, the cut-off energy was set to 1088 eV or 80 Ry, and the k-points mesh was fixed at a size of 4 × 4 × 1, within the Monkhorst–Pack special k-point scheme [50]. The threshold energy convergence was 1.1 × 10−5 eV. The structural relaxations performed are static calculations made by selecting the option ‘relax’ in the Quantum ESPRESSO input file. These calculations consider a vacuum around the samples. The Löwdin method was used for the charge population analysis [51,52,53]. We used the XCrySDen visualization software [54] to visualize the structures, VESTA to visualize the charge density plots [55], and Veusz to plot the partial density of states (PDOS) graphs [56], all of which are free software.
In this work, we calculate and report the absorption energies according to the following equation [57]:
E adsorption = E system   1 + system   2 − E system   1 − E system   2
The first term on the right side of Equation (1) is the total energy of the compound system. For the CO2 absorption exploration, this refers to the final configuration of the system involving both the CO2 molecule and the Cu-doped graphene surface. The second and third terms on the right side of Equation (1) correspond to the total energies—after being structurally relaxed separately—of the Cu-doped graphene system, and the Cu atom, respectively. In this work, the criterion to classify an interaction as either physisorption or chemisorption considers chemisorption when the binding energies are larger than 0.5 eV per atom (see [57], p. 195).

3. Results

3.1. Structure Optimization

We first relaxed the CO2 molecule to validate the pseudopotential, obtaining 1.1722 Å and 1.1723 Å for the C-O bond lengths, and 179.99° for the angle between the three atoms. The relaxed structure coincides with the experimental values of 1.1600 Å and 180° [58], with a maximum discrepancy of 1% with respect to the experimental values.
The unit cell considered includes 50 carbon atoms, and it has a side length of 12.31 Å in the a and b directions, as shown in Figure 1. The length of the unit cell in the c direction is 2.5 times that of the a and b directions, that is, 30.77 Å. This choice minimizes the spurious interactions between elements of the unit cell and their repetitions in adjacent unit cells, due to the use of periodic boundary conditions. In this way, the interactions at the graphene surface are modeled more accurately. We first performed a geometric relaxation calculation to optimize the structure of the graphene surface.

3.2. Absorption of a Cu Atom into the Graphene Sheet with a Vacancy (49G)

After the structure was geometrically optimized, a C atom was removed from the central region of the unit cell, to create a vacancy. After relaxing the resultant surface, labeled as 49G, we studied the interaction of a Cu atom with said 49G surface. The Cu atom was initially placed at 3 Å above the vacancy. A subsequent geometrical optimization showed that the Cu atom is promptly absorbed in the vacancy site, with an absorption energy of −3.5439 eV.
Table 1 shows the Löwdin charges for the Cu atom and the twelve carbon atoms nearest to it, for the initial and final configurations. The C atoms around the vacancy are labeled according to the labeling on Figure 2. The charges in Table 1 refer to the number of electrons present on each atom, concerning their valence charge. The partial charge values in the Löwdin charge analysis are meant to give a general idea of the reactivity, type of bond, or charge transfer direction for the selected atoms in the absorption process [51].
As can be seen from Table 1, there is a measurable charge transfer from the C atoms to the Cu atom, particularly from the atoms nearest to it (C2, C6, and C10). This fact, along with the high absorption energy of Cu for this case, allows us to classify it as chemisorption.
Figure 3 shows a charge density plot corresponding to the final optimized structure of the 49G + Cu system (see Figure 2a), after the Cu atom is chemisorbed by the graphene at the vacancy site. The isosurface level in Figure 3 was set to 0.1, indicating that 90% of the electrons in the systems are expected to be inside the surface.

3.3. Absorption of a CO2 Molecule into the 49G + Cu Composite

Next, we explored the interaction between a CO2 molecule and the graphene surface with the substitutionally absorbed copper atom, which we labeled as 49G + Cu. The first calculation, using the PBE functional but no Van der Waals correction, showed no interaction between the carbon dioxide and the Cu-doped graphene surface. We then added Grimme’s DFT-D3 Van der Waals correction, and the structural relaxation showed that the CO2 molecule was physisorbed by the 49G + Cu system, with an adsorption energy of −0.1786 eV. Figure 4 shows the initial and final configurations for this case. The initial vertical distance between the CO2 and the functionalized graphene surface was 3 Å.
As in the previous case, Table 2 shows the Löwdin charge analysis for the absorption of the CO2 molecule into the Cu-doped graphene surface. The charge transfer mainly involves both oxygen atoms from the CO2 molecule (OA, OB in Figure 4b), the C atoms closest to the Cu atom (C2, C6, C10), and the Cu atom. The charge seems to have also been transferred from the set of carbon atoms (C1, C11, and C12) in the general direction pointed at by the CO2 molecule axis line, for the final configuration. The low adsorption energy obtained in this case and the small amount of charge transfer allow us to classify this interaction as a physisorption.
As before, Figure 5 is a charge density plot corresponding to the final optimized structure of the 49G + Cu and CO2 system (see Figure 4a). The isosurface level was set as 0.1 as well. According to this figure, the charge transfer between the CO2 and the 49G + Cu system seems to be quite negligible. The physisorption in this case is suggested by the low absorption energy and the quite small amount of charge transferred according to Table 2.

3.4. PDOS of the Cases Considered

We then calculated the projected density of states (PDOS) for the cases considered in this work. Figure 6 shows the PDOS for said cases. We included the PDOS for the pristine graphene as a reference. The catalyzer effect of the Cu atom on the graphene surface is more evident at the bottom-right section of Figure 6, where the Cu 3d orbitals show signs of hybridization with the O 2p orbitals from the CO2 molecule. This is congruent with the charge transfer shown in the Löwdin analysis.

3.5. Additional Cases Considered

We considered an additional case that showed results of less interest. This consisted of adding a second Cu atom to the 49G + Cu system. The second Cu atom was placed 3 Å directly above the previously absorbed Cu atom, and it was swiftly chemisorbed by it (see Figure 7a). The absorption energy for the second Cu atom was −3.0961 eV, with a 12.6% reduction in the energy with respect to the chemisorption of the first Cu atom. Subsequently, we studied the interaction of a CO2 molecule with the 49 + 2Cu system, which turned out to be rather small but different from zero (see Figure 7b). The absorption energy in this case was only −0.0428 eV, which is probably too low to make this case suitable for CO2 sensing.

4. Discussion

In this work, we studied the catalytic effect that a Cu atom can have on the possible absorption of a CO2 molecule into a graphene surface, when the Cu atom is substitutionally absorbed in a vacancy, with an absorption energy of −3.5439 eV, which can be safely classified as chemisorption. We found that, when weak interactions are considered by means of a Van der Waals correction, the previously chemisorbed Cu atom can promote the physisorption of a CO2 molecule into a graphene surface, with an adsorption energy of −0.1786 eV. The Löwdin charge analysis and PDOS for the cases considered confirm the physisorption mechanism. In particular, the PDOS in Figure 4 shows a degree of hybridization between the O 2p orbitals from the CO2 and the Cu 3d orbital. This is also in general quantitative agreement with previous studies [22,23,28]. The work by Cai & Luo [28] explored a similar case as ours, considering a complex structure of CuN4-doped graphene. The four N atoms surrounded the Cu atom in a symmetrical array, as if they were anchoring the Cu, while enlarging the vacancy where the former would be absorbed. In that study, the Cu atom was perfectly aligned with the rest of the C atoms in the plane of the graphene surface. They found that the CO2 was physisorbed for that system, and the linear Cu–O–C–O structure from their initial configuration is maintained (see Figure 3 in [28]).
There are several differences worth pointing out in our study compared to [28]. Firstly, we omitted the N atoms, considering it would be interesting to see if the Cu atom would suffice to attract the CO2. In both studies, a physisorption of the CO2 by the Cu-doped graphene is observed. Quantitatively, we found further differences, because the adsorption energy in [28] is −4.6060 × 10–4 Hartree, or −0.0125 eV (see Table 4 in [28]), which is about 14 times smaller than the adsorption energy we found for CO2.
Additionally, there are two possible reasons why the vertical linear Cu–O–C–O structure observed in [28] is not maintained in our study. Firstly, the smaller vacancy space in which the Cu atom was chemisorbed made it difficult for the structure to remain completely symmetrical after the geometrical relaxation; so much so that in this work, the Cu atom protrudes from the graphene surface. This could in turn cause an asymmetrical configuration when the CO2 interacts with the composite surface. Secondly, the initial position of the CO2 in our study is different from the one in [28]. In that study, the CO2 axis is vertically aligned, with one of the O atoms facing the Cu atom. The axis is horizontally aligned in ours, with the C atom placed above the Cu. Our study had no linear structure to begin with, and we placed it that way because we wanted to further explore the Cu-doped graphene’s ability to absorb CO2 in a different, less symmetrical configuration. These two factors may have influenced the different final configuration observed between studies.
The unit cell considered in this work (see Section 3.1) is also larger than that of [28], which contains 26 C atoms and N atoms, besides the Cu and CO2. In this way, the effect of the Cu doping can be evaluated in more detail, as the periodic repetitions due to the boundary conditions used by Quantum ESPRESSO are farther away between them.
A comparison with the study by Lisovski et al. [23] is also worthwhile. This study focuses on different Cu doping schemes for graphene, and they also considered the case of a single Cu atom on a graphene surface with a single vacancy. Both studies coincide quite well in the reported absorption energy of the Cu atom in the graphene vacancy site, which was −3.59 eV in [23], compared with the value of −3.5439 eV from this work.
The energy of vacancy formation reported in [23] is relatively large (17.5 eV), from which the authors did not explore the interaction of Cu absorbed in a single vacancy of graphene and its interaction with CO2. However, as mentioned in the Introduction, single vacancies in graphene have been widely observed in previous experimental investigations [13,14,15,16,17]. They can be created by irradiating the graphene or by rapid quenching, and they have been the subject of extensive experimental and theoretical studies because of the great impact they have on the properties of graphene [59,60,61,62]. Experiments have demonstrated that Cu atoms are stable in pre-existing defects on graphene layers [63,64,65,66,67]. According to Zhang et al. [68], nitrogen-doped graphene is one of the most common types of these defects, and it exhibits good binding energies. They focused on single-atom catalysts and reported that a system with a Cu atom embedded in nitrogen-doped graphene can be stably anchored. This system shows an adsorption energy of 0.25 eV, which is very close to our own value of approximately 0.17 eV, both of which fall within the physisorption range. The charge density difference isosurface presented in their findings indicates that the electrochemical activity is primarily located at the defect site and the Cu atom, aligning with our results and the electronic interactions identified through our charge analysis.
Finally, an addition not considered in previous studies was that of a second Cu atom. As can be seen in Section 3.5, we found that the 2Cu doping of graphene decreases the already weak interaction with the CO2 molecule. The resulting adsorption energy of the CO2 for this case is –0.0428 eV, which is of the same order of magnitude as the one reported in [28], discussed above. This suggests an equivalence between a 2Cu/graphene system and a CuN4/graphene one. The bimetallic analysis included in Section 3.5 provides complementary insights that could inform the rational design of Cu-doped graphene-based catalysis, aimed at potential applications for CO2 sensing and environmental monitoring.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; data curation, J.O.L.F. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; formal analysis, J.O.L.F., R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; funding acquisition, R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; investigation, J.O.L.F., R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; methodology J.O.L.F., R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; project administration, R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; supervision, R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; validation, J.O.L.F., R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A.; writing—original draft, J.M.R.-d.-A.; writing—review and editing, R.M.d.C.V. and J.M.R.-d.-A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGAPA-UNAM), by grant number PAPIIT DGAPA IN109124, and LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-385.

Data Availability Statement

The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors on request.

Acknowledgments

We thank (DGAPA-UNAM) for partial financial support by Grant PAPIIT DGAPA IN109124. We also appreciate UNAM-Miztli-Super-Computing Center technical assistance by the project LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-385.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Figure 1. Unit cell considered. The graphene sheet includes 50 C atoms. The vertical direction of the unit cell is 30.77 Å, large enough to avoid spurious interactions with image repetitions due to the use of periodical boundary conditions.
Figure 1. Unit cell considered. The graphene sheet includes 50 C atoms. The vertical direction of the unit cell is 30.77 Å, large enough to avoid spurious interactions with image repetitions due to the use of periodical boundary conditions.
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Figure 2. (a) Initial and final configurations of the 49G + Cu system, after a relaxation calculation. The Cu atom was initially placed at 3 Å above the graphene surface, and it gets absorbed by the latter after a DFT relaxation calculation. (b) XY plane view of the final configuration. The twelve C atoms nearest to the Cu atom were labeled in a clockwise way, to identify them for the Lowdin charge analysis in Table 1.
Figure 2. (a) Initial and final configurations of the 49G + Cu system, after a relaxation calculation. The Cu atom was initially placed at 3 Å above the graphene surface, and it gets absorbed by the latter after a DFT relaxation calculation. (b) XY plane view of the final configuration. The twelve C atoms nearest to the Cu atom were labeled in a clockwise way, to identify them for the Lowdin charge analysis in Table 1.
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Figure 3. Charge density plot for the optimized configuration of the 49G + Cu system. The isosurface contains 90% of the electrons, and it shows a presence of electronic charge between the chemisorbed Cu atom and the graphene surface. This is congruent with the findings from Table 1, indicating a charge transfer in the system.
Figure 3. Charge density plot for the optimized configuration of the 49G + Cu system. The isosurface contains 90% of the electrons, and it shows a presence of electronic charge between the chemisorbed Cu atom and the graphene surface. This is congruent with the findings from Table 1, indicating a charge transfer in the system.
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Figure 4. (a) Initial and final configurations of the 49G + Cu system and the CO2 molecule interacting with it, after a relaxation calculation. The CO2 molecule was placed at 3 Å above the 49G + Cu surface. Relaxation calculations using Grimme’s DFT-D3 Van der Waals correction showed that the CO2 molecule is physisorbed by the composite system (b) XY plane view of the final configuration. The atom labeling corresponds to the Löwdin charge analysis shown in Table 2.
Figure 4. (a) Initial and final configurations of the 49G + Cu system and the CO2 molecule interacting with it, after a relaxation calculation. The CO2 molecule was placed at 3 Å above the 49G + Cu surface. Relaxation calculations using Grimme’s DFT-D3 Van der Waals correction showed that the CO2 molecule is physisorbed by the composite system (b) XY plane view of the final configuration. The atom labeling corresponds to the Löwdin charge analysis shown in Table 2.
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Figure 5. Charge density plot for the optimized configuration of the 49G + Cu system and the CO2 molecule. The isosurface again contains 90% of the electrons, and it does not show a presence of electronic charge between the CO2 and the Cu-doped graphene surface.
Figure 5. Charge density plot for the optimized configuration of the 49G + Cu system and the CO2 molecule. The isosurface again contains 90% of the electrons, and it does not show a presence of electronic charge between the CO2 and the Cu-doped graphene surface.
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Figure 6. PDOS for the cases considered in this work. (Top left): The characteristic pristine graphene PDOS structure is reproduced, with its Dirac cone at the Fermi level. (Top right): The addition of a vacancy destroys the Dirac cone. The C 2s orbitals are reduced in the vicinity of the Fermi level. (Bottom left): The Cu atom further adds states that can catalyze the physisorption of the CO2 molecule. (Bottom right): PDOS for the interaction between the CO2 molecule and the composite system. The O 2p orbitals of CO2 appear to hybridize with the Cu 3d orbital.
Figure 6. PDOS for the cases considered in this work. (Top left): The characteristic pristine graphene PDOS structure is reproduced, with its Dirac cone at the Fermi level. (Top right): The addition of a vacancy destroys the Dirac cone. The C 2s orbitals are reduced in the vicinity of the Fermi level. (Bottom left): The Cu atom further adds states that can catalyze the physisorption of the CO2 molecule. (Bottom right): PDOS for the interaction between the CO2 molecule and the composite system. The O 2p orbitals of CO2 appear to hybridize with the Cu 3d orbital.
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Figure 7. We considered an additional case where a second Cu atom was placed 3 Å above the already chemisorbed Cu atom. Part (a) (left) shows the initial and final configurations of the structural relaxation that resulted in chemisorption of the second Cu atom. Part (b) (right) shows the subsequent interaction between the CO2 molecule and the 49 + 2Cu system. The CO2 molecule moves further above the system before stabilizing, with a calculated absorption energy of only –0.0428 eV.
Figure 7. We considered an additional case where a second Cu atom was placed 3 Å above the already chemisorbed Cu atom. Part (a) (left) shows the initial and final configurations of the structural relaxation that resulted in chemisorption of the second Cu atom. Part (b) (right) shows the subsequent interaction between the CO2 molecule and the 49 + 2Cu system. The CO2 molecule moves further above the system before stabilizing, with a calculated absorption energy of only –0.0428 eV.
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Table 1. Lowdin charges analysis for the initial and final configurations of the absorption of a Cu atom in the 49G surface. The labeling C# for the C atoms corresponds to that of Figure 2.
Table 1. Lowdin charges analysis for the initial and final configurations of the absorption of a Cu atom in the 49G surface. The labeling C# for the C atoms corresponds to that of Figure 2.
AtomInitial Löwdin ChargeFinal Löwdin Charge
C1+0.0484+0.0607
C2+0.1764−0.0895
C3+0.0484+0.0607
C4−0.0001+0.0006
C5+0.0484+0.0607
C6+0.1764−0.0895
C7+0.0484+0.0607
C8−0.0002+0.0006
C9+0.0483+0.0607
C10+0.1765−0.0892
C11+0.0483+0.0607
C12−0.0002+0.0006
Cu0.0000+0.4697
Table 2. Lowdin charges analysis for the initial and final configurations of the absorption of a CO2 molecule in the 49G surface. The atom labeling corresponds to that of Figure 3.
Table 2. Lowdin charges analysis for the initial and final configurations of the absorption of a CO2 molecule in the 49G surface. The atom labeling corresponds to that of Figure 3.
AtomInitial Löwdin ChargeFinal Löwdin Charge
C1+0.0607−0.0040
C2−0.0895+0.0581
C3+0.0607+0.0598
C4+0.0006−0.0063
C5+0.0607+0.0561
C6−0.0895−0.1389
C7+0.0607+0.0560
C8+0.0006−0.0048
C9+0.0607+0.0611
C10−0.0892−0.0512
C11+0.0607+0.0591
C12+0.0006−0.0040
Cu+0.4697+0.4473
OA−0.2667−0.2319
C13+0.7969+0.7973
OB−0.2667−0.2285
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