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

Molecules on a metal surface may be modified by the presence of oxide layers, but further mechanistic understanding is still required. Here the authors show for methanol on rutile TiO2(110) that strongly bonded adsorbates lift surface relaxations, leading to substrate-mediated interaction between ad...

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Main Authors: David Silber, Piotr M. Kowalski, Franziska Traeger, Maria Buchholz, Fabian Bebensee, Bernd Meyer, Christof Wöll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12888