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Adsorbate-induced lifting of substrate relaxation is a general mechanism governing titania surface chemistry

Silber, D. 1; Kowalski, P. M.; Traeger, F.; Buchholz, M. 1; Bebensee, F. 1; Meyer, B.; Wöll, C. 1
1 Institut für Funktionelle Grenzflächen (IFG), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

Under ambient conditions, almost all metals are coated by an oxide. These coatings, the result of a chemical reaction, are not passive. Many of them bind, activate and modify adsorbed molecules, processes that are exploited, for example, in heterogeneous catalysis and photochemistry. Here we report an effect of general importance that governs the bonding, structure formation and dissociation of molecules on oxidic substrates. For a specific example, methanol adsorbed on the rutile TiO2(110) single crystal surface, we demonstrate by using a combination of experimental and theoretical techniques that strongly bonding adsorbates can lift surface relaxations beyond their adsorption site, which leads to a significant substrate-mediated interaction between adsorbates. The result is a complex superstructure consisting of pairs of methanol molecules and unoccupied adsorption sites. Infrared spectroscopy reveals that the paired methanol molecules remain intact and do not deprotonate on the defect-free terraces of the rutile TiO2(110) surface.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000061487
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12888
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Zitationen: 23
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Funktionelle Grenzflächen (IFG)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2016
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2041-1723
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-614871
KITopen-ID: 1000061487
HGF-Programm 43.22.02 (POF III, LK 01) Nanocatalysis
Erschienen in Nature Communications
Verlag Nature Research
Band 7
Seiten 12888
Schlagwörter Infrared spectroscopy. Surface chemistry, Surfaces, interfaces and thin films
Nachgewiesen in Dimensions
Web of Science
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