THE NATURE OF THE SURFACE CHEMICAL-BOND - A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE MOLECULAR AND SOLID-STATE PICTURES

Journal article, 1990

When an adsorbate interacts with a cluster, the chemisorption energy and the reactivity are often found to oscillate as a function of cluster size. This has been demonstrated both in theoretical model calculations 1,2 and in cluster beam experiments.Since in many of the theoretical studies the cluster is used as a model for an infinite surface and the ultimate goal is to make predictions of reactivities on real metal surfaces, it is very important to understand the origin of these oscillations. Et cetera...