TY - JOUR
T1 - Dopamine Adsorption on Rutile TiO2(110)
T2 - Geometry, Thermodynamics, and Core-Level Shifts from First Principles
AU - Cadmen, Noemi
AU - Bustamante, Joana
AU - Rivera, Richard
AU - Torres, F. Javier
AU - Ontaneda, Jorge
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been performed by employing the resources of the high-performance computing systems of UTPL, USFQ, and UR. F.J.T. thanks the Alianza EFI-Colombia Científica grant with code 60185 and FP44842-220-2018.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.
PY - 2022/2/8
Y1 - 2022/2/8
N2 - The modification of the rutile TiO2(110) surface with dopamine represents the best example of the functionalization of TiO2-based nanoparticles with catecholamines, which is of great interest for sunlight harvesting and drug delivery. However, there is little information on the dopamine-TiO2(110) adsorption complex in terms of thermodynamic properties and structural parameters such as bond coordination and orientation of the terminal ethyl-amino group. Here, we report a density functional theory (DFT) investigation of dopamine adsorption on the TiO2(110) surface using the optB86b-vdW functional with a Hubbard-type correction to the Ti 3d orbitals, where Ueff = 3 eV. Guided by available X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) data, our simulations identify enolate species with bidentate coordination at a submonolayer coverage, which are bonded to two neighboring 5-fold-coordinated Ti atoms at the TiO2(110) surface through both deprotonated oxygen atoms of the dopamine, i.e., in a bridging fashion. The process is highly exothermic, involving an adsorption energy of -2.90 eV. Calculated structural parameters suggest that the molecule sits approximately upright on the surface with the amino group interacting with the π-like orbitals of the aromatic ring, leading to a gauche-like configuration. The resulting NH···πhydrogen bond in this configuration can be broken by overcoming an energy barrier of 0.22 eV; in this way, the amino group rotation leads to an anti-like conformation, making this terminal group able to bind to other biomolecules. This mechanism is endothermic by 0.07 eV. Comparison of existing spectroscopic data with DFT modeling shows that our computational setup can reproduce most experimentally determined parameters such as tilt angles from NEXAFS and chemical shifts in XPS, which allows us to identify the preferred mode of adsorption of dopamine on the TiO2(110) surface.
AB - The modification of the rutile TiO2(110) surface with dopamine represents the best example of the functionalization of TiO2-based nanoparticles with catecholamines, which is of great interest for sunlight harvesting and drug delivery. However, there is little information on the dopamine-TiO2(110) adsorption complex in terms of thermodynamic properties and structural parameters such as bond coordination and orientation of the terminal ethyl-amino group. Here, we report a density functional theory (DFT) investigation of dopamine adsorption on the TiO2(110) surface using the optB86b-vdW functional with a Hubbard-type correction to the Ti 3d orbitals, where Ueff = 3 eV. Guided by available X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) data, our simulations identify enolate species with bidentate coordination at a submonolayer coverage, which are bonded to two neighboring 5-fold-coordinated Ti atoms at the TiO2(110) surface through both deprotonated oxygen atoms of the dopamine, i.e., in a bridging fashion. The process is highly exothermic, involving an adsorption energy of -2.90 eV. Calculated structural parameters suggest that the molecule sits approximately upright on the surface with the amino group interacting with the π-like orbitals of the aromatic ring, leading to a gauche-like configuration. The resulting NH···πhydrogen bond in this configuration can be broken by overcoming an energy barrier of 0.22 eV; in this way, the amino group rotation leads to an anti-like conformation, making this terminal group able to bind to other biomolecules. This mechanism is endothermic by 0.07 eV. Comparison of existing spectroscopic data with DFT modeling shows that our computational setup can reproduce most experimentally determined parameters such as tilt angles from NEXAFS and chemical shifts in XPS, which allows us to identify the preferred mode of adsorption of dopamine on the TiO2(110) surface.
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U2 - 10.1021/acsomega.1c05784
DO - 10.1021/acsomega.1c05784
M3 - Article
C2 - 35155912
AN - SCOPUS:85124067054
SN - 2470-1343
VL - 7
SP - 4185
EP - 4193
JO - ACS Omega
JF - ACS Omega
IS - 5
ER -