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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 3, Issue 23, Pages 3425-3430Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz301413v
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences Biosciences
- Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- DOE by Battelle [DE-AC05-76RL01830]
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The adsorption of CO on reduced, rutile TiO2(110) is investigated using IR reflection-absorption spectroscopy and temperature-programmed desorption. Experiments using s- and p-polarized IR light incident along the [001] and [1 (1) over bar0] azimuths give detailed information on the adsorption geometry of the CO as a function of the CO coverage, theta(CO). The results indicate that for theta(CO) <= 1 ML, CO adsorbs oriented perpendicular to the surface at Ti-5c sites. For 1 < theta(CO) <= 1.5 ML, the bonding geometry of the CO adsorbed at Ti-5c sites is unchanged, whereas the additional CO molecules adsorb at O-b sites parallel to the surface and parallel to the [1<(1)over bar>0] azimuth. The results do not support previous suggestions that CO at Ti-5c sites tilt similar to 20 degrees from normal at high coverages. The results demonstrate the utility, of polarization-resolved infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy for elucidating adsorption geometries on dielectric substrates.
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