skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Surface-reaction induced structural oscillations in the subsurface

Journal Article · · Nature Communications

Surface and subsurface are commonly considered as separate entities because of the difference in the bonding environment and are often investigated separately due to the experimental challenges in differentiating the surface and subsurface effects. Using in-situ atomic-scale transmission electron microscopy to resolve the surface and subsurface at the same time, we show that the hydrogen-CuO surface reaction results in structural oscillations in deeper atomic layers via the cycles of ordering and disordering of oxygen vacancies in the subsurface. Together with atomistic calculations, we show that the structural oscillations in the subsurface are induced by the hydrogen oxidation induced cyclic loss of oxygen from the oxide surface. These results demonstrate the propagation of the surface reaction dynamics into the deeper layers in inducing nonstoichiometry in the subsurface and have significant implications in modulating various chemical processes involving surface-subsurface mass transport such as heterogeneous catalysis, oxidation, corrosion and carburization.

Research Organization:
State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Binghamton, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001135; SC0012704; OCI-1053575
OSTI ID:
1619731
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1593988; OSTI ID: 1603753; OSTI ID: 1808966; OSTI ID: 1864758
Report Number(s):
BNL-213699-2020-JAAM; BNL-221861-2021-JACI; 305; PII: 14167
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 11 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 16 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (55)

Hydrogen-Induced Clustering of Metal Atoms in Oxygenated Metal Surfaces journal April 2019
In situ atomic-scale visualization of oxide islanding during oxidation of Cu surfaces journal January 2013
The role of steps in surface catalysis and reaction oscillations journal July 2010
Resolving surface chemical states in XPS analysis of first row transition metals, oxides and hydroxides: Sc, Ti, V, Cu and Zn journal November 2010
Boosting hot electron flux and catalytic activity at metal–oxide interfaces of PtCo bimetallic nanoparticles journal June 2018
Surface termination and subsurface restructuring of perovskite-based solid oxide electrode materials journal January 2014
In situ atomic-scale imaging of the metal/oxide interfacial transformation journal August 2017
Spontaneous Growth of Superstructure α -Fe 2 O 3 Nanowire and Nanobelt Arrays in Reactive Oxygen Plasma journal October 2008
In Situ Atomic-Scale Probing of the Reduction Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Fe 2 O 3 Nanostructures journal December 2016
Heterogeneous Catalysis journal February 1998
Tuning the Deoxygenation of Bulk-Dissolved Oxygen in Copper journal March 2018
Bridging the Pressure Gap in Water and Hydroxyl Chemistry on Metal Surfaces:  The Cu(110) Case journal October 2007
Atomic origins of water-vapour-promoted alloy oxidation journal May 2018
CuO reduction induced formation of CuO/Cu2O hybrid oxides journal December 2013
Effect of surface stresses on CuO nanowire growth in the thermal oxidation of copper journal August 2011
Long-Range Ordering of Oxygen-Vacancy Planes in α-Fe 2 O 3 Nanowires and Nanobelts journal May 2008
Bistability and oscillations in CO oxidation studied with scanning tunnelling microscopy inside a reactor journal July 2005
Atomistic details of oxide surfaces and surface oxidation: the example of copper and its oxides journal November 2015
Atomic Structural Evolution during the Reduction of α-Fe 2 O 3 Nanowires journal June 2016
In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy on Energy‐Related Catalysis journal December 2019
A climbing image nudged elastic band method for finding saddle points and minimum energy paths journal December 2000
Atomic‐Scale Mechanism of Unidirectional Oxide Growth journal November 2019
Driving force and growth mechanism for spontaneous oxide nanowire formation during the thermal oxidation of metals journal April 2011
Enhancing Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction on MnO 2 with Vacancies journal January 2013
Autocatalytic Water Dissociation on Cu(110) at Near Ambient Conditions journal March 2008
Dislocation nucleation facilitated by atomic segregation journal November 2017
Oxidations carried out by means of vanadium oxide catalysts journal January 1954
Reduction mechanisms of the CuO(111) surface through surface oxygen vacancy formation and hydrogen adsorption journal January 2014
Hydroxyl-Induced Wetting of Metals by Water at Near-Ambient Conditions journal June 2007
Reduction of CuO and Cu 2 O with H 2 : H Embedding and Kinetic Effects in the Formation of Suboxides journal September 2003
Atomically Visualizing Elemental Segregation-Induced Surface Alloying and Restructuring journal December 2017
CHEMISTRY: Oxygen Vacancies and Catalysis on Ceria Surfaces journal July 2005
Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanoporous Microstructures via the Kirkendall Effect in Chemical Reduction Process journal November 2015
Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set journal July 1996
Oscillatory Kinetics in Heterogeneous Catalysis journal May 1995
In situ atomic-scale observation of inhomogeneous oxide reduction journal January 2018
Early and transient stages of Cu oxidation: Atomistic insights from theoretical simulations and in situ experiments journal October 2016
Defects and Order in Perovskite-Related Oxides journal August 1985
Point defects, diffusion mechanisms, and superlattice disordering in gallium arsenide-based materials journal January 1991
Adsorbate-driven reactive interfacial Pt-NiO 1− x nanostructure formation on the Pt 3 Ni(111) alloy surface journal July 2018
Diffusion of oxygen in superconducting Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7 − δ ceramic oxides journal January 1989
Oscillatory Mass Transport in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Sapphire Nanowires journal October 2010
The Water-Gas Shift Reaction journal January 1980
Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Oxygen in Perovskite Ceramics journal February 2003
Enhancing Dissociative Adsorption of Water on Cu(111) via Chemisorbed Oxygen journal May 2017
Atomic-Scale Observations of Catalyst Structures under Reaction Conditions and during Catalysis journal March 2016
Insight into the effect of surface structure on H2 adsorption and activation over different CuO(1 1 1) surfaces: A first-principle study journal September 2016
Segregation induced order-disorder transition in Cu(Au) surface alloys journal August 2018
Increasing Oxide Reducibility: The Role of Metal/Oxide Interfaces in the Formation of Oxygen Vacancies journal August 2017
Oxygen Vacancy Clusters Promoting Reducibility and Activity of Ceria Nanorods journal March 2009
Insight into the Phase Transformation Pathways of Copper Oxidation: From Oxygen Chemisorption on the Clean Surface to Multilayer Bulk Oxide Growth journal October 2018
Experimental and theoretical investigation of the electronic structure of Cu 2 O and CuO thin films on Cu(110) using x-ray photoelectron and absorption spectroscopy journal January 2013
The p-type conduction mechanism in Cu2O: a first principles study journal January 2006
Probing oxygen vacancy concentration and homogeneity in solid-oxide fuel-cell cathode materials on the subunit-cell level journal August 2012
Oscillatory CO oxidation on Pd(100) studied with in situ scanning tunneling microscopy journal March 2004

Similar Records

Atomic Origin of the Autocatalytic Reduction of Monoclinic CuO in a Hydrogen Atmosphere
Journal Article · Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · OSTI ID:1619731

Atomic Dynamics of Multi‐Interfacial Migration and Transformations
Journal Article · Wed Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Small · OSTI ID:1619731

In Situ Monitoring of H2-Induced Nonstoichiometry in Cu2O
Journal Article · Tue Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · OSTI ID:1619731