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Chinese Physics, 2006, Vol. 15(10): 2389-2396    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/15/10/034
CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES Prev   Next  

Local field distribution and configuration of CO molecules adsorbed on the nanostructure platinum surface

Huang Xiao-Jing (黄晓菁)ab, He Su-Zhen (何素贞)a, Wu Chen-Xu (吴晨旭)a
a Soft Condensed Matter Lab, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; b Department of Physics, School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
Abstract  This paper shows that the local electric field distribution near the nanostructure metallic surface is obtained by solving the Laplace equation, and furthermore, the configuration of CO molecules adsorbed on a Pt nanoparticle surface is obtained by using Monte Carlo simulation. It is found that the uneven local electric field distribution induced by the nanostructure surface can influence the configuration of carbon monoxide (CO) molecules by a force, which drags the adsorbates to the poles of the nanoparticles. This result, together with our results obtained before, may explain the experimental results that the nanostructure metallic surface can lead to abnormal phenomena such as anti-absorption infrared effects.
Keywords:  local electric field      adsorbed molecules      nanostructure metal surface  
Received:  14 December 2005      Revised:  22 May 2006      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  68.43.Fg (Adsorbate structure (binding sites, geometry))  
  68.43.Mn (Adsorption kinetics ?)  
  68.47.De (Metallic surfaces)  
  78.30.Er (Solid metals and alloys ?)  
  81.16.Rf (Micro- and nanoscale pattern formation)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10225420, 90206039 and 20021002).

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Huang Xiao-Jing (黄晓菁), He Su-Zhen (何素贞), Wu Chen-Xu (吴晨旭) Local field distribution and configuration of CO molecules adsorbed on the nanostructure platinum surface 2006 Chinese Physics 15 2389

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