Site energies

We have considered briefly the important macroscopic description of a solid adsorbent, namely, its speciflc surface area, its possible fractal nature, and if porous, its pore size distribution. In addition, it is important to know as much as possible about the microscopic structure of the surface, and contemporary surface spectroscopic and diffraction techniques, discussed in Chapter VIII, provide a good deal of such information (see also Refs. 55 and 56 for short general reviews, and the monograph by Somoijai [57]). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFT) are now widely used to obtain the structure of surfaces and of adsorbed layers on a molecular scale (see Chapter VIII, Section XVIII-2B, and Ref. 58). On a less informative and more statistical basis are site energy distributions (Section XVII-14) there is also the somewhat laige-scale type of structure due to surface imperfections and dislocations (Section VII-4D and Fig. XVIII-14). 

Fig. XVn-24. Site energy distribution for nitrogen adsorbed on Silica SB. (From Ref. 160.) (Reprinted with permission from J. Phys. Chem. Copyright by the American Chemical Society.)...

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The preceding material has been couched in terms of site energy distributions—the implication being that an adsorbent may have chemically different kinds of sites. This is not necessarily the case—if micropores are present (see Section XVII-16) adsorption in such may show an increased Q because the adsorbate experiences interaction with surrounding walls of adsorbent. To a lesser extent this can also be true for a nonporous but very rough surface. 

It is not surprising, in view of the material of the preceding section, that the heat of chemisorption often varies from the degree of surface coverage. It is convenient to consider two types of explanation (actual systems involving some combination of the two). First, the surface may be heterogeneous, so that a site energy distribution is involved (Section XVII-14). As an example, the variation of the calorimetric differential heat of adsorption of H2 on ZnO is shown in Fig. 

It would seem better to transform chemisorption isotherms into corresponding site energy distributions in the manner reviewed in Section XVII-14 than to make choices of analytical convenience regarding the f(Q) function. The second procedure tends to give equations whose fit to data is empirical and deductions from which can be spurious. 

The state of the surface is now best considered in terms of distribution of site energies, each of the minima of the kind indicated in Fig. 1.7 being regarded as an adsorption site. The distribution function is defined as the number of sites for which the interaction potential lies between and (rpo + d o)> various forms of this function have been proposed from time to time. One might expect the form ofto fio derivable from measurements of the change in the heat of adsorption with the amount adsorbed. In practice the situation is complicated by the interaction of the adsorbed molecules with each other to an extent depending on their mean distance of separation, and also by the fact that the exact proportion of the different crystal faces exposed is usually unknown. It is rarely possible, therefore, to formulate the distribution function for a given solid except very approximately. 

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Figure 1 The local DOS for CU75PCI25 alloys. The solid line represents the result without lattice relaxation and the dashed with lattice relaxation, (a) at the Pd site (b) at the Cu site. Energies have been measured from the Fermi energy Ej...

The parameters of the semi-infinite alloy Ising Hamiltonian are the configurationally independent part of the alloy internal energy Eq, the on-site energies the interatomic pair interactions and generally, interatomic interactions of higher order. 

The on-site energy Dp for atomic species Q at the lattice site R consists of the band, core, double-counting, non-spherical and Madelung contributions, respectively. 

In order to gain an accurate picture of the site energy usage it is necessary to ... 

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One of the earliest studies was an MNDO-cluster treatment by Corbett et al. (1983) of the isolated interstitial hydrogen and the corresponding molecule. In this early study, the isolated H was found to be stable at the M-site in silicon. This is directly between two adjacent C-sites, where the C-site is directly between next-near-neighbor silicons. (We note that in these calculations, the C- and M-site energies are very similar.) It was not known at that time, however, that the BC site is the stable location for neutral isolated interstitial hydrogen (see Chapter 16). In the Corbett study, an H2 molecule was found to be stable (or at least, metastable) in the tetrahedral interstitial site when oriented along a (111) direction. The... 

Fig. 1.1. Chemisorption model, where aa(Pa) is adatom site (bond) energy, as(a) surface (chain) atom site energy and (3 chain bond energy.

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