Research Article

Study on the Adsorption and Activation Behaviours of Carbon Dioxide over Copper Cluster (Cu4) and Alumina-Supported Copper Catalyst (Cu4/Al2O3) by means of Density Functional Theory

Table 2

Voronoi charge (e) on the oxygen atoms of the Al2O3 and Cu4/Al2O3 systems.

AtomAl2O3Cu4/Al2O3

O1−0.360−0.407
O2−0.360−0.398
O3−0.285−0.298
O4−0.285−0.312
O5−0.360−0.390

Note: schematic numbering of oxygen atoms is shown in Figure 3.