Bulk-defect dependent adsorption on a metal oxide surface: S/TiO2(110)

Autor: Ulrike Diebold, Phillip Sprunger, Carl A. Ventrice, H. Geisler, E.L.D. Hebenstreit, Wilhelm Hebenstreit
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Surface Science. 486:L467-L474
ISSN: 0039-6028
DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6028(01)01067-6
Popis: The adsorption of molecular sulfur on TiO 2 (1 1 0)(1×1) has been studied with scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy. At room temperature S binds dissociatively to 5-fold coordinated Ti atoms and oxygen vacancies. At elevated temperatures (120–440°C) sulfur replaces surface oxygen atoms. Evidence was found that the reduction state of TiO 2 crystals strongly affects the surface coverage of S at elevated temperatures. The rate of the O–S site exchange is kinetically limited by the arrival of diffusing bulk defects at the surface.
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