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The Binding of Adsorbates to Metal Surfaces

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The Structure of Surfaces

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The total energy of an adsorbate as a function of position outside a metal surface determines, within the adiabatic approximation, the equilibrium position, the chemisorption energy, the vibrational spectrum and the activation energies for adsorption, diffusion and further reactions on the surface. Results obtained using the effective medium approach to calculate the total interaction energy are reviewed. Due to the simplicity of the approach the full potential energy surface has been calculated for a number of adsorption systems, and it is possible to relate the properties of the interaction potential to the parameters describing the atom and surface in question. Specific topics to be discussed are hydrogen and oxygen chemisorption on transition metals, quantum diffusion of chemisorbed hydrogen, and the oxygen incorporation and initial oxidation of metals.

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  1. The Donnan Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3X, Great Britain

    S. Holloway

  2. NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

    J. K. Nørskov

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Michel A. Van Hove

  2. Department of Physics and The Laboratory for Surface Studies, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 53201, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    S. Y. Tong

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Holloway, S., Nørskov, J.K. (1985). The Binding of Adsorbates to Metal Surfaces. In: Van Hove, M.A., Tong, S.Y. (eds) The Structure of Surfaces. Springer Series in Surface Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82493-7_4

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