CatApp database

CatApp data: Calculated reaction and activation energies for elementary coupling reactions occurring on metal surfaces

Dr. Jens S. Hummelshøj, Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen, Dr. Felix Studt, Dr. Thomas Bligaard and Prof. Jens K. Nørskov

CatApp: A Web Application for Surface Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 272–274, January 2, 2012

The data

The csv-file has been converted to an ASE db-file using this script:

import csv
import ase.db
from ase import Atoms


reader = csv.reader(open('catappdata.csv'))
next(reader)  # skip header
with ase.db.connect('catapp.db', append=False) as con:
    for er, ea, surface, ab, a, b, ref, url, dataset in reader:
        if surface.startswith('HH- '):
            surf = surface[4:]
        else:
            surf = surface
        keys = {}
        words = surf.split()
        if len(words) == 2:
            surf, keys['site'] = words
        else:
            surf, = words
        symbols, facet = surf.split('(')
        facet = '(' + facet
        symbols = symbols.replace('-', '')
        atoms = Atoms(symbols, pbc=(True, True, False))
        a, b, ab = (x if x[:2] != 'hf' else x[2:] + '/2' for x in [a, b, ab])
        for xc in ['RPBE', 'PW91', 'BEEF']:
            if xc in dataset:
                break
        else:
            xc = '???'
        if ea:
            keys['ea'] = float(ea)
        con.write(atoms, a=a, b=b, ab=ab, er=float(er),
                  surface=surface, facet=facet,
                  xc=xc, ref=ref, url=url, dataset=dataset,
                  **keys)

Key-value pairs

key

description

unit

a

Reactant A

ab

Product AB

b

Reactant B

dataset

Description of calculation

ea

ea

er

er

facet

Surface facet

project

project

ref

ref

reference

Reference

site

Adsorption site

surface

Description of surface

url

Link to reference

xc

XC-functional

Methane example

Here we look at the correlation between the activation and reaction energy for this reaction:

\[\text{H}* + \text{CH}_3* \rightarrow \text{CH}_4\]
# creates: ch4.svg
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import ase.db

con = ase.db.connect('catapp.db')
x = []
y = []
for row in con.select(a='H*', b='CH3*'):
    x.append(row.er)
    y.append(row.ea)
    
plt.plot(x, y, 'o', label='H*+CH3*->CH4')
plt.legend()
plt.xlabel('reaction energy [eV]')
plt.ylabel('activation energy [eV]')
plt.savefig('ch4.svg')
../_images/ch4.svg