Wafer-scale single-crystal monolayer graphene grown on sapphire substrate

J Li, M Chen, A Samad, H Dong, A Ray, J Zhang… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
The growth of inch-scale high-quality graphene on insulating substrates is desirable for
electronic and optoelectronic applications, but remains challenging due to the lack of metal …

Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy

GJ Kroes - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas
phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis …

Theory of surface phonons at metal surfaces: recent advances

G Benedek, M Bernasconi, V Chis… - Journal of Physics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies of the surface dynamics of Al (001) and Cu (111) based on density functional
perturbation theory have substantiated the existence of subsurface optical phonon …

Effect of Surface Motion on the Rotational Quadrupole Alignment Parameter of <?format ?>Reacting on Cu(111)

F Nattino, C Díaz, B Jackson, GJ Kroes - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) calculations using the specific reaction parameter
approach to density functional theory are presented for the reaction of D 2 on Cu (111) at …

CO adsorption on metal surfaces: A hybrid functional study with plane-wave basis set

A Stroppa, K Termentzidis, J Paier, G Kresse… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We present a detailed study of the adsorption of CO on Cu, Rh, and Pt (111) surfaces in top
and hollow sites. The study has been performed using the local density approximation, the …

Structure of the surface from low-energy electron diffraction: Al termination and evidence for anomalously large thermal vibrations

EA Soares, MA Van Hove, CF Walters, KF McCarty - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We use dynamical low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) to determine the surface structure
of α− Al 2 O 3 (0001). Sapphire surfaces are prepared in three different ways, and the …

Chlorine adsorption on the Cu (111) surface

K Doll, NM Harrison - Chemical Physics Letters, 2000 - Elsevier
We investigate the adsorption of chlorine on the Cu (111) surface with full-potential all-
electron density functional calculations. Chlorine adsorption at the fcc hollow sites is slightly …

A systematic study of the structure and bonding of halogens on low-index transition metal surfaces

A Migani, F Illas - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006 - ACS Publications
The structure and bonding of halogens on various transition metal low-index surfaces has
been studied by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations using periodic slabs …

Innate dynamics and identity crisis of a metal surface unveiled by machine learning of atomic environments

M Cioni, D Polino, D Rapetti, L Pesce… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Metals are traditionally considered hard matter. However, it is well known that their atomic
lattices may become dynamic and undergo reconfigurations even well below the melting …

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations on a Benchmark Molecule–Metal Surface Reaction: H2 + Cu(111)

K Doblhoff-Dier, J Meyer, PE Hoggan… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Accurate modeling of heterogeneous catalysis requires the availability of highly accurate
potential energy surfaces. Within density functional theory, these can unfortunately …