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Rivero Santamaría A, Ramos M, Alducin M, Busnengo HF, Díez Muiño R, Juaristi JI. High-Dimensional Atomistic Neural Network Potential to Study the Alignment-Resolved O 2 Scattering from Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:2588-2600. [PMID: 33734696 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c00835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A high dimensional and accurate atomistic neural network potential energy surface (ANN-PES) that describes the interaction between one O2 molecule and a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface has been constructed using the open-source package (aenet). The validation of the PES is performed by paying attention to static characteristics as well as by testing its performance in reproducing previous ab initio molecular dynamics simulation results. Subsequently, the ANN-PES is used to perform quasi-classical molecular dynamics calculations of the alignment-dependent scattering of O2 from HOPG. The results are obtained for 200 meV O2 molecules with different initial alignments impinging with a polar incidence angle with respect to the surface normal of 22.5° on a thermalized (110 and 300 K) graphite surface. The choice of these initial conditions in our simulations is made to perform comparisons to recent experimental results on this system. Our results show that the scattering of O2 from the HOPG surface is a rather direct process, that the angular distributions are alignment dependent, and that the final translational energy of end-on molecules is around 20% lower than that of side-on molecules. Upon collision with the surface, the molecules that are initially aligned perpendicular to the surface become highly rotationally excited, whereas a very small change in the rotational state of the scattered molecules is observed for the initial parallel alignments. The latter confirms the energy transfer dependence on the stereodynamics for the present system. The results of our simulations are in overall agreement with the experimental observations regarding the shape of the angular distributions and the alignment dependence of the in-plane reflected molecules.
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- Alejandro Rivero Santamaría
- Centro de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.,Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Rosario, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Bv. 27 de Febrero 210 bis, 2000 Rosario, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniera y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Av. Pellegrini 250, S2000BTP Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.,Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Rosario, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Bv. 27 de Febrero 210 bis, 2000 Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.,Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Centro de Física de Materiales CFM/MPC (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.,Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.,Departamento de Polímeros y Materiales Avanzados: Física, Química y Tecnología, Facultad de Químicas, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Apartado 1072, 20080 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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Minissale M, Dulieu F. Influence of surface coverage on the chemical desorption process. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:014304. [PMID: 25005286 DOI: 10.1063/1.4885847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In cold astrophysical environments, some molecules are observed in the gas phase whereas they should have been depleted, frozen on dust grains. In order to solve this problem, astrochemists have proposed that a fraction of molecules synthesized on the surface of dust grains could desorb just after their formation. Recently the chemical desorption process has been demonstrated experimentally, but the key parameters at play have not yet been fully understood. In this article, we propose a new procedure to analyze the ratio of di-oxygen and ozone synthesized after O atoms adsorption on oxidized graphite. We demonstrate that the chemical desorption efficiency of the two reaction paths (O+O and O+O2) is different by one order of magnitude. We show the importance of the surface coverage: for the O+O reaction, the chemical desorption efficiency is close to 80% at zero coverage and tends to zero at one monolayer coverage. The coverage dependence of O+O chemical desorption is proved by varying the amount of pre-adsorbed N2 on the substrate from 0 to 1.5 ML. Finally, we discuss the relevance of the different physical parameters that could play a role in the chemical desorption process: binding energy, enthalpy of formation, and energy transfer from the new molecule to the surface or to other adsorbates.
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- M Minissale
- LERMA, Université de Cergy Pontoise et Observatoire de Paris, UMR 8112 du CNRS. 5, mail Gay Lussac, 95031 Cergy Pontoise, France
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- LERMA, Université de Cergy Pontoise et Observatoire de Paris, UMR 8112 du CNRS. 5, mail Gay Lussac, 95031 Cergy Pontoise, France
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Oh J, Kondo T, Arakawa K, Saito Y, Nakamura J, Hayes WW, Manson JR. Scattering of CO and N2 molecules by a graphite surface. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:354001. [PMID: 22898810 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/35/354001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Measurements of angular distributions for the scattering of well-defined incident beams of CO and N(2) molecules from a graphite surface are presented. The measurements were carried out over a range of graphite surface temperatures from 150 to 400 K and a range of incident translational energies from 275 to over 600 meV. The behavior of the widths, positions and relative intensities of the angular distributions for both CO and N(2) were found to be quite similar. The experimental measurements are discussed in comparison with calculations using a classical mechanical model that describes single collisions with a surface. Based on the behavior of the angular distributions as functions of temperature and incident translational energy, and the agreement between measured data and calculations of the single-collision model, it is concluded that the scattering process is predominantly a single collision with a collective surface for which the effective mass is significantly larger than that of a single carbon atom. This conclusion is consistent with that of earlier experiments for molecular beams of O(2) molecules and Xe atoms scattering from graphite. Further calculations are carried out with the theoretical molecular scattering model in order to predict translational and rotational energy transfers to and from the molecule during scattering events under similar initial conditions.
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- Junepyo Oh
- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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