Dynamic Processes on Solid Surfaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Theory of Atomic and Electronic Structure of Surfaces

   • Akio Yoshimori

   Pages 1-27

3. Theory of Dynamical Processes of Surfaces

   • Masaru Tsukada

   Pages 29-58

4. Real-Time Monitoring of Surface Processes by a Novel Form of Low-Energy Ion Scattering

   • Masakazu Aono, Mitsuhiro Katayama, Eiichi Nomura

   Pages 59-67

5. In Situ Observation of Surface Processes by High-Resolution UHV Electron Microscopy

   • Kunio Takayanagi, Katsumichi Yagi

   Pages 69-89

6. Catalysis by Structurally Designed Surfaces

   • Yasuhiro Iwasawa

   Pages 91-113

7. Surface Compounds Formed on Single-Crystal Metal Surfaces During Catalysis

   • Ken-ichi Tanaka

   Pages 115-147

8. Surface-Supported Metal Clusters

   • Masaru Ichikawa

   Pages 149-214

9. Laser-Induced Surface Reactions

   • Maki Kawai, Tomoji Kawai

   Pages 215-235

10. IR Spectroscopic Studies on Surface Reactions

    • Takaharu Onishi

    Pages 237-258

11. Catalysis by Heteropoly Compounds in the Pseudoliquid Phase

    • Toshio Okuhara, Makoto Misono

    Pages 259-282

12. Surface Reactions Controlled by the Bulk Migration of Oxide Ions

    • Yoshihiko Moro-oka, Wataru Ueda, De-Hua He

    Pages 283-305

13. Chirality Recognition by a Clay Surface Modified with an Optically Active Metal Chelate

    • Akihiko Yamagishi

    Pages 307-347

14. Back Matter

    Pages 349-357

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When we see a jumbo jet at the airport, we sometimes wonder how such a huge, heavy plane can fly high in the sky. To the extent that we think in a static way, it is certainly not understandable. In such a manner, dynamics yields behavior quite different from statics. When we want to prepare an iron nitride, for example, one of the most orthodox ways is to put iron in a nitrogen atmosphere under pressures higher than the dissociation pressure of the iron nitride at temperatures sufficiently high to let the nitrogen penetrate into the bulk iron. This is the way thermodynamics tells us to proceed, which requires an elaborate, expensive high-pressure apparatus, sophisticated techniques, and great efforts. However, if we flow ammonia over the iron, even under low pressures, we can easily prepare the nitride-provided the hydrogen pressure is sufficiently low. Since the nitrogen desorption rate is the determining step of the ammonia decomposition on the iron surface, the virtual pressure of nitrogen at the surface can reach an extremely high level (as is generally accepted) because, in such a dynamic system, the driving force of the ammonia decomposition reaction pushes the nitrogen into the bulk iron to form the nitride. Thus, dynamics is an approach considerably different from statics.

• catalysis
• chirality
• electrochemistry
• metals
• structure

• Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Kenzi Tamaru

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