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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 99, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.066101
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Molecular oxygen adsorption on the Pt(111) surface is studied based on ab initio computations and thermodynamics. An O-2 adsorption phase diagram is determined. There are two possible chemisorbed molecular states: one at a bridge site and another one at an fcc hollow site. While some population in the bridge sites persists at all coverages, the states coexist through the intermediate coverage phases. The relative coverage of the two species on the surface is determined by the competition between the Pt lattice distortion energy (that results from O-2 adsorption) and the O-2 repulsion energy. Our results give a reasonable explanation for the seemingly contradictory findings in previous experimental and theoretical work.
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