Different Surface Chemistries of Water on Ru{0001}: From Monomer Adsorption to Partially Dissociated Bilayers
- 8 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 125 (9), 2746-2755
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja028855u
Abstract
Density functional theory has been used to perform a comparative theoretical study of the adsorption and dissociation of H2O monomers and icelike bilayers on Ru{0001} .H 2O monomers bind preferentially at atop sites with an adsorption energy of 0.4 eV/H2O. The main bonding interaction is through the H2 O1 b 1 molecular orbital which mixes with Ru dz 2 states. The lower-lying set of H2O molecules in an intact H2O bilayer bond in a similar fashion; the high-lying H2O molecules, however, do not bond directly with the surface, rather they are held in place through H bonding. The H2O adsorption energy in intact bilayers is 0.6 eV/H2O and we estimate that H bonding accounts for 70% of this. In agreement with Feibelman (Science 2002, 295, 99) we find that a partially dissociated OH + H2O overlayer is energetically favored over pure intact H2O bilayers on the surface. The barrier for the dissociation of a chemisorbed H2O monomer is 0.8 eV, whereas the barrier to dissociate a H2O incorporated in a bilayer is just 0.5 eV.Keywords
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