Showing papers in "Progress in Surface Science in 2010"

TL;DR: The most stable surface of rutile TiO 2 (1/1/0) has become a prototypical model for fundamental studies of catalytic and photocatalytic reactions as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes the recent progress in the understanding of the geometrical and electronic structure of the anchor bond and the involvement of gold adatoms at all stages of alkanethiol self-assembly, including the dissociation of the disulfide (S−S) and hydrogen-sulfide(S−H) bonds and subsequent formation of the self-assembled structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the recent progress in joint theoretical and experimental studies aiming at atomic structure determination of low-dimensional metal oxides is presented, and it is shown that often the only way of an unambiguous atomic structure discovery of lowdimensional systems are experimental studies combined with theoretical calculations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the recent scanning tunneling microscopy studies on the manipulation, self-assembly, and application of functional nanostructures on solid surfaces and discuss their perspectives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the case of symmetric top molecules oriented by hexapoles and the collisional alignment, a molecular polarization phenomenon occurring in supersonic expansions of gaseous mixtures, which allows the use of mechanical devices to filter out of the beam the molecules having either a random or a preferential spatial distribution of their rotational angular momentum J with respect to the molecular beam axis.

TL;DR: The electrochemical promotion of heterogeneously catalyzed reactions (EPOC) became feasible through the use of porous metal electrodes interfaced to a solid electrolyte as mentioned in this paper, and the physical basis for the EPOC effect lies in the electrochemically induced spillover of oxygen and alkali metal, respectively, onto the surface of the metal electrodes.

TL;DR: In this article, the conditions for the formation of superlattices of individual adsorbed atoms were discussed, where the adatom concentration, the sample temperature, and adatom diffusion barrier are in a subtle balance.

TL;DR: The development of scanning force microscopes that maintain precise control of the tip position using displacement control (DC-SFM) has allowed significant progress in understanding the relationships between the chemical and mechanical properties of soft interfaces as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential energy surfaces (PES) of diatomic molecules on large band gap materials such as oxide surfaces are studied, which allows the use of sufficiently large cluster models and accurate ab initio methods beyond density functional theory (DFT).

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent progress made from the combination of Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) experiments and First Principles atomistic simulations in the chemical characterization of metal-organic interfaces is devoted.