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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 37, Issue 10, Pages 2310-2327Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b719551f
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG
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Faceting is a form of self-assembly at the nanometre-scale on adsorbate-covered single-crystal surfaces, occurring when an initially planar surface converts to a hill and valley'' structure, exposing new crystal faces of nanometre-scale dimensions. Planar metal surfaces that are rough on the atomic scale, such as bcc W(111), fcc Ir(210) and hcp Re(12 (3) over bar1), are morphologically unstable when covered by monolayer films of oxygen, or by certain other gases or metals, becoming nanotextured'' when heated to temperatures above similar to 700 K. Faceting is driven by surface thermodynamics (anisotropy of surface free energy) but controlled by kinetics (diffusion, nucleation). Surfaces can spontaneously rearrange to minimize their total surface energy (by developing facets), even if this involves an increase in surface area. In this critical review, we discuss the structural and electronic properties of such surfaces, and first principles calculations are compared with experimental observations. The utility of faceted surfaces in studies of structure sensitive reactions (e. g., CO oxidation, ammonia decomposition) and as templates for growth of metallic nanostructures is explored (122 references).
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