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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 112, Issue 42, Pages 16616-16621Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp805664b
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- Swedish Science Council (VR)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation (KAW)
- Crafoord foundation
- Goran Gustafsson foundation
- Strategic Area Materials at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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The adsorption of water on the anatase TiO2(001)-(4 x 1) surface is studied using synchrotron radiation-excited core level photoelectron spectroscopy. The coverage-dependent adsorption of water at low temperature is monitored and compared to the sequence obtained after heating of a water multilayer. Two adsorption phases of submonolayer coverage can be defined: Phase 1 consists only of dissociated water, observed as OH-groups. This phase is found at low coverage at low temperature (190 K) and is the only state of adsorbed water above similar to 230 K. The saturation coverage of phase 1 is consistent with dissociation on the 4-fold-coordinated Ti ridge atoms of the (4 x 1) surface reconstruction. Phase 2 is found at higher coverage, reached at lower temperature. It consists of a mixture of dissociated and molecular water with a ratio of 1:1 at 170 K. The molecular water is found to bond to the hydroxyl groups. The hydroxyl coverage of phase 2 is approximately 2 times that of phase 1. The results suggest that the OH and H2O species of phase 2 are confined to the ridges of the surface.
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