First-Principles Considerations on Spontaneous Replacement of Copper by Tin in the Presence of Thiourea

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• 作者：Guofeng Cui ; Xi Ke ; Hong Liu ; Jianwei Zhao ; Shuqin Song ; Pei Kang Shen
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：September 4, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：112
• 期：35
• 页码：13546-13553
• 全文大小：483K
• 年卷期：v.112,no.35(September 4, 2008)
• ISSN：1932-7455

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The electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) and density functional theory (DFT) have been combined to study the special reaction between thiourea (TU) and metal cluster and the mechanism of the replacement of Cu by Sn in the presence of TU for the first time. The natural bond orbital (NBO) charge of the top copper atom obviously shifts toward positive values compared to the interaction behavior of single and double (SC) regions with Cu₄ cluster via the DFT method. This can explain the reason for the accelerating corrosion process at higher TU concentrations since the copper atoms can change to cuprous ions in this process. It is proven that the thermodynamically impossible replacement of Cu by Sn can occur in the presence of TU by reducing the OCP of the copper electrode to a more negative value than the redox potential of Sn²⁺/Sn. The DFT investigation on the interactions between delocalization (SC) and (NC) regions in TU and Cu₄ or Sn₄ cluster indicates that the highest molecular occupied orbital (HOMO) of the SC region has better than adequate to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of Cu₄ cluster than that of Sn₄ cluster. The replacement mechanism deduced based on the first-principles analysis is universally applicable to the alloy deposition, corrosion inhibition, and surface treatment.