Dependence of lactose adsorption on the exposed crystal facets of metals: a comparative study of gold, silver and copper - Surfaces, Interfaces et Nano-Objets
Article Dans Une Revue Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Année : 2024

Dependence of lactose adsorption on the exposed crystal facets of metals: a comparative study of gold, silver and copper

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In this theoretical work, we investigated the adsorption of a lactose molecule on metal-based surfaces, with a focus on the influence of the nature of the metal and of the type of exposed crystal facet on the adsorption structures and energetics. More precisely, we considered three flat crystallographic facets of three face-centered cubic metals (gold, silver, and copper). For the global exploration of the energy landscape, we employed a multi-stage procedure where high-throughput searches, using a stochastic method that performs global optimization by iterating local searches, are followed by a refinement of the most probable adsorption conformations of the molecule at the \textit{ab initio} level. We predicted the optimal conformation of lactose on each of the nine metal-surface combinations, classified the many low-energy minima into possible adsorption modes, and analyzed the structural, electronic and energetic aspects of the lactose molecule on the surface, as well as their dependence on the type of metal and exposed crystal facet. We observed structural similarities between the various minimum-energy conformations of lactose in vacuum and on the surface, a rough correlation between adsorption and interaction energies of the molecule, and a small charge transfer between molecule and surface whose direction is metal-dependent. During adsorption, an electronic reorganization occurs at the metal-molecule interface only, without affecting the vacuum-pointing atoms of the lactose molecule. For all types of surfaces, lactose exhibits the weakest adsorption on silver substrates, while for each coinage metal the adsorption is strongest on the (110) crystal facet. This study demonstrates that the control of exposed facets can allow to modulate the interaction between metals and small saccharides.
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hal-04664324 , version 1 (30-07-2024)

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Nathalie Tarrat, J. Christian Schön, Juan Cortés. Dependence of lactose adsorption on the exposed crystal facets of metals: a comparative study of gold, silver and copper. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024, 31, pp.21134-21146. ⟨10.1039/D4CP01559B⟩. ⟨hal-04664324⟩
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