Hydrogen adsorption surfaces

In the older literature one of the strongest supports for active points or active centers has been the finding that poisons such as CO destroy the catalytic activity completely, even if they are in such small amounts as to cover only a fraction of the surface. This would indicate that the catalyst surfaces referred to in the older literature were either very impure or very heterogeneous, or that since the surfaces were often measured by hydrogen adsorption, surfaces very much too high were obtained because the absorption of hydrogen into the interior of the structure as discussed earlier in this article was not realized. 

Fig. 16. Sketch of computed equilibrium geometries of hydrogen adsorption at different oxygen sites of the 205(010) surface. Single hydrogen adsorption (surface OH) as well as adsorption of two hydrogen atoms (surface H2O) are included. The results are obtained from optimizations of VioOsiHia-tH and V10O31H12-1-2H cluster models, respectively. The surface species, OH or H2O, are shown by haded balls while the surface lattice is sketched by light balls.

Miehelsen H A, Rettner C T and Auerbaeh D J 1993 The adsorption of hydrogen at eopper surfaees A model system for the study of aetivated adsorption Surface Reacf/onsed R J Madix (Berlin Springer) p 123... 

The major role of TOF-SARS and SARIS is as surface structure analysis teclmiques which are capable of probing the positions of all elements with an accuracy of <0.1 A. They are sensitive to short-range order, i.e. individual interatomic spacings that are <10 A. They provide a direct measure of the interatomic distances in the first and subsurface layers and a measure of surface periodicity in real space. One of its most important applications is the direct determination of hydrogen adsorption sites by recoiling spectrometry [12, 4T ]. Most other surface structure teclmiques do not detect hydrogen, with the possible exception of He atom scattering and vibrational spectroscopy. 

Shoji F, Kashihara K, Sumitomo K and Oura K 1991 Low-energy recoil-ion spectroscopy studies of hydrogen adsorption on Si(100)-2 x i surfaces Surf. Sc/. 242 422-7... 

Fukunishi Y and Nakatsu] H 1992 Modifications for ab initio calculations of the moderately large-embedded-cluster model. Hydrogen adsorption on a lithium surface J. Chem. Phys. 97 6535-43... 

Nishihara C and Nozoye H 1995 influence of underpotentiai deposition of copper with submonolayer coverage on hydrogen adsorption at the stepped surfaces Pt(955), Pt(322) and Pt(544) in sulfuric acid solution J. Electroanal. Chem. 396 139-42... 

A number of metals have the ability to absorb hydrogen, which may be taken into solid solution or form a metallic hydride, and this absorption can provide an alternative reaction path to the desorption of H,. as gas. In the case of iron and iron alloys, both hydrogen adsorption and absorption occur simultaneously, and the latter thus gives rise to another equilibrium involving the transfer of H,<,s across the interface to form interstitial H atoms just beneath the surface ... 

In order for the reaction to proceed, hydrogen adsorption must be followed by its diffusion over the surface amongst other mobile adsorbed species... 

His researches and those of his pupils led to his formulation in the twenties of the concept of active catalytic centers and the heterogeneity of catalytic and adsorptive surfaces. His catalytic studies were supplemented by researches carried out simultaneously on kinetics of homogeneous gas reactions and photochemistry. The thirties saw Hugh Taylor utilizing more and more of the techniques developed by physicists. Thermal conductivity for ortho-para hydrogen analysis resulted in his use of these species for surface characterization. The discovery of deuterium prompted him to set up production of this isotope by electrolysis on a large scale of several cubic centimeters. This gave him and others a supply of this valuable tracer for catalytic studies. For analysis he invoked not only thermal conductivity, but infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. To ex-... 

HREELS and TFD have played a unique role In characterizing the surface chemistry of systems which contain hydrogen since many surface techniques are not sensitive to hydrogen. We have used these techniques to characterize H2S adsorption and decomposition on the clean and (2x2)-S covered Ft(111) surface (5). Complete dissociation of H,S was observed on the clean Ft(lll) surface even at IlOK to yield a mixed overlayer of H, S, SH and H2S. Decomposition Is primarily limited by the availability of hydrogen adsorption sites on the surface. However on the (2x2)-S modified Ft(lll) surface no complete dissociation occurs at IlOK, Instead a monolayer of adsorbed SH Intermediate Is formed (5) ... 

Oxygen adsorption that occurs at platinum at potentials more positive than 0.9 to 1.0 V is irreversible, in contrast to hydrogen adsorption. Oxygen can be removed from the surface by cathodic current, but the curves obtained in the anodic and cathodic scan do not coincide cathodic oxygen desorption occurs within a narrower region of potentials, and these potentials are more negative than the region where the... 

Another factor producing an apparent decrease in the activity of disperse catalysts is steric hindrance. In reactions involving relatively large molecules, not aU of the inner surface area of the catalyst may by accessible for these molecules, so that the true working surface area is smaller than that measured by BET or hydrogen adsorption. 

Figure 3.18 Spectrum of free energies of hydrogen adsorption, AGh, on binary surface alloys at r = 298K. The vertical axis shows the number of elements with free energies within 0.1 eV windows (O.O-O.l eV, 0.1-0.2 eV, etc.). The sohd vertical line indicates AGh = 0- The dashed vertical line gives the hydrogen free energy adsorption for pure Pt. AU free energies are referenced to gas phase H2. Adapted from [Greeley and Nprskov, 2007] see this reference for more details.

Greeley J, Mavrikakis M. 2005. Surface and subsurface hydrogen adsorption properties on transition metals and near-surface alloys. J Phys Chem B 109 3460-3471. 

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