A FTIRAS Study of CO Adsorbed At Ni(100) Surfaces
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Article
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Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Engineering Physics
Abstract
Adsorption of CO at Ni(100) surfaces has been studied with Fourier-Transform Infrared Absorption-Reflection (FTIRA) spectroscopy in the temperature range 121 K to 350 K. Up to a coverage of θ = 0.5 top site and bridge site bonded CO has been identified by absorption peaks in the frequency range 2016 to 2048 cm−1 and 1885 to 1949 cm−1, respectively. The site population is temperature dependent, top sites are preferred at high temperatures, bridge sites at low temperatures. Towards the saturation coverage, θ ≈︁ 0.67 the top site peak is replaced by a broad absorption structure between 2000 and 2100 cm−1, which contains at least 3 separate peaks. The bridge site related absorption remains a single peak but shifts upwards by 20 cm−1 to 1968 cm−1. This suggests that above a coverage of θ = 0.5 CO molecules are arranged in an incommensurate adsorption structure, in which a unique top adsorption site does no longer exist.
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Publication Info
Published in Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, Volume 97, Issue 3, 2010, pages 326-328.
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© Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, 1993, Wiley
APA Citation
Lauterbach, A.J., Wittmann, M., Küppers, J. (1993). A FTIRAS study of CO adsorbed at Ni(100) surfaces. Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, 97(3), 326-328.