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Schatz GC, Wodtke AM, Yang X. Spiers Memorial Lecture: New directions in molecular scattering. Faraday Discuss 2024; 251:9-62. [PMID: 38764350 DOI: 10.1039/d4fd00015c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
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The field of molecular scattering is reviewed as it pertains to gas-gas as well as gas-surface chemical reaction dynamics. We emphasize the importance of collaboration of experiment and theory, from which new directions of research are being pursued on increasingly complex problems. We review both experimental and theoretical advances that provide the modern toolbox available to molecular-scattering studies. We distinguish between two classes of work. The first involves simple systems and uses experiment to validate theory so that from the validated theory, one may learn far more than could ever be measured in the laboratory. The second class involves problems of great complexity that would be difficult or impossible to understand without a partnership of experiment and theory. Key topics covered in this review include crossed-beams reactive scattering and scattering at extremely low energies, where quantum effects dominate. They also include scattering from surfaces, reactive scattering and kinetics at surfaces, and scattering work done at liquid surfaces. The review closes with thoughts on future promising directions of research.
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- George C Schatz
- Dept of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, Goettingen, Germany.
- International Center for the Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
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- Dalian Institute for Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Rahinov I, Kandratsenka A, Schäfer T, Shirhatti P, Golibrzuch K, Wodtke AM. Vibrational energy transfer in collisions of molecules with metal surfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:15090-15114. [PMID: 38757203 PMCID: PMC11135613 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00957f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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The Born-Oppenheimer approximation (BOA), which serves as the basis for our understanding of chemical bonding, reactivity and dynamics, is routinely violated for vibrationally inelastic scattering of molecules at metal surfaces. The title-field therefore represents a fascinating challenge to our conventional wisdom calling for new concepts that involve explicit electron dynamics occurring in concert with nuclear motion. Here, we review progress made in this field over the last decade, which has witnessed dramatic advances in experimental methods, thereby providing a much more extensive set of diverse observations than has ever before been available. We first review the experimental methods used in this field and then provide a systematic tour of the vast array of observations that are currently available. We show how these observations - taken together and without reference to computational simulations - lead us to a simple and intuitive picture of BOA failure in molecular dynamics at metal surfaces, one where electron transfer between the molecule and the metal plays a preeminent role. We also review recent progress made in the theory of electron transfer mediated BOA failure in molecule-surface interactions, describing the most important methods and their ability to reproduce experimental observation. Finally, we outline future directions for research and important unanswered questions.
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- Igor Rahinov
- Department of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Israel, 4353701 Raanana, Israel.
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany.
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, 36/P Gopanpally, Hyderabad 500046, Telangana, India
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany.
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany.
- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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Liebetrau M, Dorenkamp Y, Bünermann O, Behler J. Hydrogen atom scattering at the Al 2O 3(0001) surface: a combined experimental and theoretical study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:1696-1708. [PMID: 38126723 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04729f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Investigating atom-surface interactions is the key to an in-depth understanding of chemical processes at interfaces, which are of central importance in many fields - from heterogeneous catalysis to corrosion. In this work, we present a joint experimental and theoretical effort to gain insights into the atomistic details of hydrogen atom scattering at the α-Al2O3(0001) surface. Surprisingly, this system has been hardly studied to date, although hydrogen atoms as well as α-Al2O3 are omnipresent in catalysis as reactive species and support oxide, respectively. We address this system by performing hydrogen atom beam scattering experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on a high-dimensional machine learning potential trained to density functional theory data. Using this combination of methods we are able to probe the properties of the multidimensional potential energy surface governing the scattering process. Specifically, we compare the angular distribution and the kinetic energy loss of the scattered atoms obtained in experiment with a large number of MD trajectories, which, moreover, allow to identify the underlying impact sites at the surface.
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- Martin Liebetrau
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
- Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability, Research Alliance Ruhr, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37007 Göttingen, Germany
- International Center of Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
- Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability, Research Alliance Ruhr, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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Hydrogen atom collisions with a semiconductor efficiently promote electrons to the conduction band. Nat Chem 2023; 15:326-331. [PMID: 36411362 PMCID: PMC9986106 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01085-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Born-Oppenheimer approximation is the keystone of modern computational chemistry and there is wide interest in understanding under what conditions it remains valid. Hydrogen atom scattering from insulator, semi-metal and metal surfaces has helped provide such information. The approximation is adequate for insulators and for metals it fails, but not severely. Here we present hydrogen atom scattering from a semiconductor surface: Ge(111)c(2 × 8). Experiments show bimodal energy-loss distributions revealing two channels. Molecular dynamics trajectories within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation reproduce one channel quantitatively. The second channel transfers much more energy and is absent in simulations. It grows with hydrogen atom incidence energy and exhibits an energy-loss onset equal to the Ge surface bandgap. This leads us to conclude that hydrogen atom collisions at the surface of a semiconductor are capable of promoting electrons from the valence to the conduction band with high efficiency. Our current understanding fails to explain these observations.
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Hertl N, Krüger K, Bünermann O. Electronically Nonadiabatic H Atom Scattering from Low Miller Index Surfaces of Silver. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:14162-14171. [PMID: 36350763 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The reactivity of a surface depends strongly on the surface structure. To study the influence of surface structure on H atom adsorption, we performed inelastic scattering experiments and complementary electronically nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for H atoms colliding with the three low Miller index surface facets of silver. Experiment reveals very similar energy loss distributions for all three investigated facets. However, for the (100) facet a dependence on the surface orientation is observed that is absent for the other two facets. The nonadiabatic MD simulations manage to describe the experiments well. Despite the observed insignificant influence of the surface geometry on the energy loss distributions, our simulations predict that the capability of the H atoms to penetrate the surface critically depends on the surface structure. The observed crystal orientation dependence of the energy loss distributions in the experiment for Ag(100) cannot be explained with our simulations, and we provide a discussion for a better theoretical description of this system to stimulate future computational investigations.
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- Nils Hertl
- Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, 37077Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, 37073Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, 37073Göttingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, 37077Göttingen, Germany
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Martin-Barrios R, Hertl N, Galparsoro O, Kandratsenka A, Wodtke AM, Larrégaray P. H atom scattering from W(110): A benchmark for molecular dynamics with electronic friction. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:20813-20819. [PMID: 36004823 PMCID: PMC9472596 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01850k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) at the level of the local density friction approximation (LDFA) has been applied to describe electronically non-adiabatic energy transfer accompanying H atom collisions with many solid metal surfaces. When implemented with full dimensional potential energy and electron density functions, excellent agreement with experiment is found. Here, we compare the performance of a reduced dimensional MDEF approach involving a simplified description of H atom coupling to phonons to that of full dimensional MDEF calculations known to yield accurate results. Both approaches give remarkably similar results for H atom energy loss distributions with a 300 K W(110) surface. At low surface temperature differences are seen; but, quantities like average energy loss are still accurately reproduced. Both models predict similar conditions under which H atoms that have penetrated into the subsurface regions could be observed in scattering experiments. Molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) at the level of the local density friction approximation (LDFA) has been applied to describe electronically non-adiabatic energy transfer accompanying H atom collisions with many solid metal surfaces.![]()
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- Raidel Martin-Barrios
- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR5255, F-33400, France. .,Dynamical processes in Atomic and Molecular Systems (DynAMoS), Facultad de Física, Universidad de la Habana, La Habana, 10400, Cuba
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- Max-Planck Institut für multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen, Germany. .,Institut für physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany
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- Polimero eta Material Aurreratuak: Fisika, Kimika eta Teknologia Saila, Kimika Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) Lardizabal Pasealekua 3, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Max-Planck Institut für multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen, Germany. .,Institut für physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institut für multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen, Germany. .,Institut für physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany
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Hertl N, Kandratsenka A, Wodtke AM. Effective medium theory for bcc metals: electronically non-adiabatic H atom scattering in full dimensions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:8738-8748. [PMID: 35373798 PMCID: PMC9007224 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00087c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We report a newly derived Effective Medium Theory (EMT) formalism for bcc metals and apply it for the construction of a full-dimensional PES for H atoms interacting with molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W). We construct PESs for the (111) and (110) facets of both metals. The EMT-PESs have the advantage that they automatically provide the background electron density on the fly which makes incorporation of ehp excitation within the framework of electronic friction straightforward. Using molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) with these new PESs, we simulated 2.76 eV H atoms scattering and adsorption. The large energy losses at a surface temperature of 300 K is very similar those seen for H atom scattering from the late fcc metals and is dominated by ehp excitation. We see significant differences in the scattering from different surface facets of the same metal. For the (110) facet, we see strong evidence of sub-surface scattering, which should be observable in experiment and we predict the best conditions for observing this novel type of scattering process. At low temperatures the MD simulations predict that H atom scattering is surface specific due to the reduced influence of the random force. We derive a many-body formalism for interaction energies of adsorbates in metals and use it for. electronically non-adiabatic H atom scattering simulations from metal surfaces.![]()
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- Nils Hertl
- Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen, Germany. .,Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen, Germany. .,Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, Göttingen, Germany. .,Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany.,International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstraße 6, Göttingen, Germany
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Nagaya Y, Nakatsu H, Ogura S, Shimazaki K, Ueta H, Takeyasu K, Fukutani K. Focusing and spin polarization of atomic hydrogen beam. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:194201. [PMID: 34800952 DOI: 10.1063/5.0068251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We have developed a spin-polarized-hydrogen beam with a hexapole magnet. By combining the beam chopper and pulsed laser ionization detection, the time-of-flight of the hydrogen beam was measured, and the dependence of the beam profile on the velocity was acquired, which was consistent with the beam trajectory simulations. The spin polarization of the beam was analyzed by using the Stern-Gerlach-type magnet in combination with the spatial scan of the detection laser. The spin polarization was about 95% at a focusing condition due to the hexapole magnet. The polarization was, on the other hand, reduced to about 70% for the beam at higher velocities, which is consistent with simulation results.
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- Y Nagaya
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8 505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8 505, Japan
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- School of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Senju 5 Asahi-cho, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120-8 551, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8 505, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1 195, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8 505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8 505, Japan
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Lecroart L, Hertl N, Dorenkamp Y, Jiang H, Kitsopoulos TN, Kandratsenka A, Bünermann O, Wodtke AM. Adsorbate modification of electronic nonadiabaticity: H atom scattering from p(2 × 2) O on Pt(111). J Chem Phys 2021; 155:034702. [PMID: 34293879 DOI: 10.1063/5.0058789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We report inelastic differential scattering experiments for energetic H and D atoms colliding at a Pt(111) surface with and without adsorbed O atoms. Dramatically, more energy loss is seen for scattering from the Pt(111) surface compared to p(2 × 2) O on Pt(111), indicating that O adsorption reduces the probability of electron-hole pair (EHP) excitation. We produced a new full-dimensional potential energy surface for H interaction with O/Pt that reproduces density functional theory energies accurately. We then attempted to model the EHP excitation in H/D scattering with molecular dynamics simulations employing the electronic density information from the Pt(111) to calculate electronic friction at the level of the local density friction approximation (LDFA). This approach, which assumes that O atoms simply block the Pt atom from the approaching H atom, fails to reproduce experiment due to the fact that the effective collision cross section of the O atom is only 10% of the area of the surface unit cell. An empirical adiabatic sphere model that reduces electronic nonadiabaticity within an O-Pt bonding length scale of 2.8 Å reproduces experiment well, suggesting that the electronic structure changes induced by chemisorption of O atoms nearly remove the H atom's ability to excite EHPs in the Pt. Alternatives to LDFA friction are needed to account for this adsorbate effect.
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- Loïc Lecroart
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Hertl N, Kandratsenka A, Bünermann O, Wodtke AM. Multibounce and Subsurface Scattering of H Atoms Colliding with a van der Waals Solid. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:5745-5752. [PMID: 34181858 PMCID: PMC8279644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Revised: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report the results of inelastic differential scattering experiments and full-dimensional molecular dynamics trajectory simulations for 2.76 eV H atoms colliding at a surface of solid xenon. The interaction potential is based on an effective medium theory (EMT) fit to density functional theory (DFT) energies. The translational energy-loss distributions derived from experiment and theory are in excellent agreement. By analyzing trajectories, we find that only a minority of the scattering results from simple single-bounce dynamics. The majority comes from multibounce collisions including subsurface scattering where the H atoms penetrate below the first layer of Xe atoms and subsequently re-emerge to the gas phase. This behavior leads to observable energy-losses as large as 0.5 eV, much larger than a prediction of the binary collision model (0.082 eV), which is often used to estimate the highest possible energy-loss in direct inelastic surface scattering. The sticking probability computed with the EMT-PES (0.15) is dramatically reduced (5 × 10-6) if we employ a full-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) based on Lennard-Jones (LJ) pairwise interactions. Although the LJ-PES accurately describes the interactions near the H-Xe and Xe-Xe energy minima, it drastically overestimates the effective size of the Xe atom seen by the colliding H atom at incidence energies above about 0.1 eV.
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- Nils Hertl
- Institut
für physikalische Chemie, Universität
Göttingen, Tammannstrasse
6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut
für physikalische Chemie, Universität
Göttingen, Tammannstrasse
6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International
Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut
für physikalische Chemie, Universität
Göttingen, Tammannstrasse
6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International
Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Auerbach DJ, Tully JC, Wodtke AM. Chemical dynamics from the gas‐phase to surfaces. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ntls.10005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Daniel J. Auerbach
- Institut für physikalische Chemie Georg‐August Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany
- Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen Max‐Planck‐Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Institut für physikalische Chemie Georg‐August Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany
- Abteilung für Dynamik an Oberflächen Max‐Planck‐Institut für biophysikalische Chemie Göttingen Germany
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Bünermann O, Kandratsenka A, Wodtke AM. Inelastic Scattering of H Atoms from Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:3059-3076. [PMID: 33779163 PMCID: PMC8154602 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have developed an instrument that uses photolysis of hydrogen halides to produce nearly monoenergetic hydrogen atom beams and Rydberg atom tagging to obtain accurate angle-resolved time-of-flight distributions of atoms scattered from surfaces. The surfaces are prepared under strict ultrahigh vacuum conditions. Data from these experiments can provide excellent benchmarks for theory, from which it is possible to obtain an atomic scale understanding of the underlying dynamical processes governing H atom adsorption. In this way, the mechanism of adsorption on metals is revealed, showing a penetration-resurfacing mechanism that relies on electronic excitation of the metal by the H atom to succeed. Contrasting this, when H atoms collide at graphene surfaces, the dynamics of bond formation involving at least four carbon atoms govern adsorption. Future perspectives of H atom scattering from surfaces are also outlined.
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- Oliver Bünermann
- Institute
for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University
of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International
Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute
for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-University
of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department
of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International
Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Jiang H, Tao X, Kammler M, Ding F, Wodtke AM, Kandratsenka A, Miller TF, Bünermann O. Small Nuclear Quantum Effects in Scattering of H and D from Graphene. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:1991-1996. [PMID: 33596383 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We study nuclear quantum effects in H/D sticking to graphene, comparing scattering experiments at near-zero coverage with classical, quantized, and transition-state calculations. The experiment shows H/D sticking probabilities that are indistinguishable from one another and markedly smaller than those expected from a consideration of zero-point energy shifts of the chemisorption transition state. Inclusion of dynamical effects and vibrational anharmonicity via ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) yields results that are in good agreement with the experimental results. RPMD also reveals that nuclear quantum effects, while modest, arise primarily from carbon and not from H/D motion, confirming the importance of a C atom rehybridization mechanism associated with H/D sticking on graphene.
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- Hongyan Jiang
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßerg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammanstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Wille S, Jiang H, Bünermann O, Wodtke AM, Behler J, Kandratsenka A. An experimentally validated neural-network potential energy surface for H-atom on free-standing graphene in full dimensionality. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:26113-26120. [PMID: 32915176 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03462b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present a first principles-quality potential energy surface (PES) describing the inter-atomic forces for hydrogen atoms interacting with free-standing graphene. The PES is a high-dimensional neural network potential that has been parameterized to 75 945 data points computed with density-functional theory employing the PBE-D2 functional. Improving over a previously published PES [Jiang et al., Science, 2019, 364, 379], this neural network exhibits a realistic physisorption well and achieves a 10-fold reduction in the RMS fitting error, which is 0.6 meV per atom. The chemisorption barrier is 172 meV, which is lower than that of the REBO-EMFT PES (260 meV). We used this PES to calculate about 1.5 million classical trajectories with carefully selected initial conditions to allow for direct comparison to results of H- and D-atom scattering experiments performed at incidence translational energy of 1.9 eV and a surface temperature of 300 K. The theoretically predicted scattering angular and energy loss distributions are in good agreement with experiment, despite the fact that the experiments employed graphene grown on Pt(111). Compared to previous calculations, the agreement with experiments is improved. The remaining discrepancies between experiment and theory are likely due to the influence of the Pt substrate only present in the experiment.
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- Sebastian Wille
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Jiang H, Dorenkamp Y, Krüger K, Bünermann O. Inelastic H and D atom scattering from Au(111) as benchmark for theory. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:184704. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5094693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Hongyan Jiang
- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Dynamics at Surfaces, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Jiang H, Kammler M, Ding F, Dorenkamp Y, Manby FR, Wodtke AM, Miller TF, Kandratsenka A, Bünermann O. Imaging covalent bond formation by H atom scattering from graphene. Science 2019; 364:379-382. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw6378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Viewing the atomic-scale motion and energy dissipation pathways involved in forming a covalent bond is a longstanding challenge for chemistry. We performed scattering experiments of H atoms from graphene and observed a bimodal translational energy loss distribution. Using accurate first-principles dynamics simulations, we show that the quasi-elastic channel involves scattering through the physisorption well where collision sites are near the centers of the six-membered C-rings. The second channel results from transient C–H bond formation, where H atoms lose 1 to 2 electron volts of energy within a 10-femtosecond interaction time. This remarkably rapid form of intramolecular vibrational relaxation results from the C atom’s rehybridization during bond formation and is responsible for an unexpectedly high sticking probability of H on graphene.
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