Platinum and platinum based materials
are of fundamental importance
for modern and developed catalysts, fuel cells, sensors, hydrogen
production and storage systems, and nanoelectronic devices. The subnanosize
cluster Pt24 was considered as a model of the prospective
catalytic system based on the oxide and carbide supported Pt nanoparticles
(Pt NPs) or Pt NPs with soft spacers anchored to their surface. Structural,
electronic, thermodynamic, and spectral properties of the adsorption
complexes of molecular and atomic hydrogen on Pt NPs have been studied
using the DFT method (the BLYP functional with the 6-31G(p) basis
for H and the CRENBS pseudopotential for Pt atoms). On this basis,
the adsorption energies for molecular hydrogen at the Pt NPs along
with the energies and activation energies of its dissociation were
estimated and the pathways of activationless dissociative adsorption
were found. The full map of adsorption energies of atomic hydrogen
at the various surface regions of Pt24 was obtained. The
structures of transition states for the rearrangements between the
adsorption complexes were located, and the activation energies for
surface migration were calculated. Additionally, several ways of subsurface
diffusion of H atoms inside the Pt24 cluster were considered
which allows estimating the diffusion parameters and the probability
of the hydrogen spillover when the cluster surface is highly covered
by ligands restricting the surface migration. The IR and Raman spectra
of most favorable adsorption complexes were simulated to provide the
possibility of an experimental validation of the results obtained.