Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interactions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Supersonic Molecular Beams Studies of Surfaces

   • Luca Vattuone, Gianangelo Bracco, Marco Smerieri, Letizia Savio, Mario Rocca

   Pages 1-23

3. Potential Energy Surfaces for the Dynamics of Elementary Gas-Surface Processes

   • Pablo Gamallo, Ludovic Martin-Gondre, Ramón Sayós, Cédric Crespos, Pascal Larrégaray

   Pages 25-50

4. Thermal Energy Atomic and Molecular Beam Diffraction from Solid Surfaces

   • Daniel Farıas, Rodolfo Miranda

   Pages 51-73

5. Using Molecular Reflectivity to Explore Reaction Dynamics at Metal Surfaces

   • Cristina Díaz, Fernando Martín

   Pages 75-100

6. Hydrogen Dissociation on Stepped Pt Surfaces

   • Roar A. Olsen, Ludo B. F. Juurlink

   Pages 101-129

7. Dynamics of H2 Interacting with Substitutional Bimetallic Surface Alloys

   • Maximiliano Ramos, M. Natalia Batista, Alejandra E. Martínez, H. Fabio Busnengo

   Pages 131-155

8. Hydrogen Recombination on Graphitic Surfaces

   • Rocco Martinazzo, Simone Casolo, Liv H. Hornekær

   Pages 157-177

9. Quantum-State Resolved Gas/Surface Reaction Dynamics Experiments

   • Rainer D. Beck, Arthur L. Utz

   Pages 179-212

10. The Effects of Lattice Motion on Gas-Surface Reactions

    • Bret Jackson

    Pages 213-237

11. Reaction Dynamics of Molecular Hydrogen on Silicon Surfaces: Importance of Lattice Degrees of Freedom

    • Michael Dürr, Ulrich Höfer

    Pages 239-265

12. Vibrational Energy Transfer at Surfaces: The Importance of Non-Adiabatic Electronic Effects

    • Daniel J. Auerbach, Alec M. Wodtke

    Pages 267-297

13. Non-adiabatic Effects at Surfaces Simulated with TDDFT Molecular Dynamics

    • Michael Grotemeyer, Eckhard Pehlke

    Pages 299-321

14. Theory of Non-adiabatic Molecular Dynamics at Surfaces

    • Peter Saalfrank, Gernot Füchsel, Serge Monturet, Jean Christophe Tremblay, Tillmann Klamroth

    Pages 323-348

15. Scattering of Hyperthermal Effusive N and N2 Beams at Metal Surfaces

    • Michael A. Gleeson, Hirokazu Ueta, Aart W. Kleyn

    Pages 349-370

16. Energy Dissipation Channels in Reactive and Non-reactive Scattering at Surfaces

    • Maite Alducin, Ricardo Díez Muiño, J. Iñaki Juaristi

    Pages 371-388

17. O2 Adsorption Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: Non-adiabatic Effects, Dissociation and Dissipation

    • Christian Carbogno, Axel Groß, Jörg Meyer, Karsten Reuter

    Pages 389-419

18. Back Matter

    Pages 421-428

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This book gives a representative survey of the state of the art of research on gas-surface interactions. It provides an overview of the current understanding of gas surface dynamics and, in particular, of the reactive and non-reactive processes of atoms and small molecules at surfaces. Leading scientists in the field, both from the theoretical and the experimental sides, write in this book about their most recent advances.
Surface science grew as an interdisciplinary research area over the last decades, mostly because of new experimental technologies (ultra-high vacuum, for instance), as well as because of a novel paradigm, the ‘surface science’ approach. The book describes the second transformation which is now taking place pushed by the availability of powerful quantum-mechanical theoretical methods implemented numerically. In the book, experiment and theory progress hand in hand with an unprecedented degree of accuracy and control. The book presents how modern surface science targets the atomic-level understanding of physical and chemical processes at surfaces, with particular emphasis on dynamical aspects. This book is a reference in the field.

• adiabatic molecular dynamics
• chemical processes at surfaces
• dissociation dynamics
• elementary reactive processes at surfaces
• gas surface dynamics
• heterogeneous catalysis
• non-adiabatic processes
• physical chemistry of surfaces
• reactivity of molecules at surfaces
• surface science book

From the book reviews:

“The volume collects the work carried out by many among the best groups and authors in the field, including the excellent contributions from the editors’ home-institutions, the CONICET-UNR at Rosario, Argentina and, last but not least, the Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC, and the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) of the Basque Country University at San Sebastian. This important book is a must for all surface science laboratories.” (G. Benedek, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, en.sif.it, Vol. 31 (1-2), 2015)

• , Centro de Física de Materiales, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

  Ricardo Díez Muiño

• , Instituto de Física Rosario, CONICET-UNR, Rosario, Argentina

  Heriberto Fabio Busnengo

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