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Gas-Surface Interactions: Reactive And Non-Reactive Scattering, Azar Farjamnia
Gas-Surface Interactions: Reactive And Non-Reactive Scattering, Azar Farjamnia
Doctoral Dissertations
The adsorption and dissociation of small molecules on metal surfaces are key steps in many industrial reactions. A detailed understanding of the dynamics of these reactions provides us with the ability to control the outcome and efficacy of the reactions. The molecule-metal interactions will lead to reorientation, energy redistribution, or bond dissociation in the molecule. The process is strongly depending upon the initial conditions, i. e. the incident energy and vibrational state of the molecule, and the surface temperature. We use a fully quantum approach to compute the dissociative sticking probability of the molecules at zero overage, on the surface …