Dynamic and thermodynamic consequences of adsorbate lateral interactions in surface reaction kinetics
The effects of lateral interactions on the two-dimensional distribution of adspecies on solid surfaces and their consequences for reaction kinetics are demonstrated for the bimolecular reactive system A + B ..-->.. AB. The discussion concentrates on systems where one reactant, A, is stationary while the other, B, is freely diffusing and instantaneously relaxing. A modified Bethe-Peierls-type lattice gas approximation is formulated in order to account for the rapidly equilibrating distribution of B atoms. The approximation takes into account all nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions between the adspecies and the nonuniformity of the lattice available to B implied by the presence of immobile A's on the surface. This model is combined with a Monte Carlo simulation of the reactive events in order to calculate reaction rates, e.g., in temperature-programmed processes. The rates are compared with full Monte Carlo simulations (for all kinetic processes), showing good agreement between the two schemes, except at very high coverages, where very long range correlations in the system which are ignored in the lattice gas approximation must be taken into account.
- Research Organization:
- Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem (Israel)
- OSTI ID:
- 6313960
- Journal Information:
- J. Stat. Phys.; (United States), Vol. 52:5-6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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