Dynamic Chemical Processes on Solid Surfaces

1. Front Matter

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2. Dynamic Chemical Processes on Metals

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-10

   3. Surface Structures and the Crystal Habit of Growing Particles

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      Pages 11-19

   4. Self-Assembled Array of Atoms and Molecules on Metals

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   5. Formation of Quasi-Compounds on Metals

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   6. Reaction of Quasi-Compounds on Metal Surfaces

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   7. Formation of Labile Surface Compounds and Catalysis

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3. Dynamics of Chemical Reactions in Catalysis

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   2. Overview of Catalysis

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   3. Spatial Distribution of Molecules Desorbing with Surface Reaction

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   4. Formation of Active Ordered Layer on Pt–Rh Catalyst

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   5. Dynamic Chemical Processes in Catalysis

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   6. Concluding Remarks

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In this book, the author determines that a surface is itself a new material for chemical reaction, and the reaction of the surface provides additional new materials on that surface. The revelation of that peculiarity is what makes this book different from an ordinary textbook, and this new point of view will help to provide a new impetus when graduate students and researchers consider their results. 


The reaction of surface atoms provides additional new compounds, but these compounds cannot be detached from the surface. Some compounds are passive, but others work as catalysts. One superior feature of the surface is the dynamic cooperation of two or more different functional materials or sites on the same surface. This fact has been well established in the preferential oxidation of CO on platinum supported on a carbon nanotube with Ni-MgO at its terminal end. The Pt and Ni-MgO are perfectly separated, but these two are indispensable for the selective oxidation of CO in H₂, where the H₂O molecule plays a key role. The reader will understand that the complexity of catalysis is due to the complexity of the dynamic processes on the surface.

• Dynamics of molecules
• Catalytic active layer
• Catalysis of olefin reaction
• Support materials in catalysis
• Promoting materials in catalysis
• Growing crystal habit

• The University of Tokyo, Institute of Solid State Physics, Kashiwa, Japan

  Ken-ichi Tanaka

Ken-ichi Tanaka received his Ph.D. at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After becoming an associate professor at Hokkaido Univerisity and then at The University of Tokyo, he was a professor at The University of Tokyo. He now is professor emeritus at the University and a guest professor in the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and honorary director at the Institute of Materials and Electrochemistry, the University of Science and Technology.
Ken-ichi Tanaka has received the Academic Award of the Chemical Society of Japan, the Award of the Surface Science Society of Japan, and the Award of the Catalysis Society of Japan.
He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Catalysis. 

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