Adsorption of carbon monoxide on Ti(0001)

This paper covers the kinetics and mechanism of dissociative chemisorption of carbon monoxide on the face Ti(0001) at a room temperature of T = 300 K within the interval of adsorption exposure of 0-300 Langmuir. X-ray photoel ectron spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron diffraction were used to establ ish characteristics of initial elementary stages of chemisorption, to deter mine localization centers of adsorbed atoms and to distinguish between the different types of kinetics of filling in the non-equivalent sorption cente rs with carbon or oxygen atoms. A series of possible variants of the CO che misorption on the Ti(0001) surface was calculated by the first-principal li near method of muffin-tin orbitals in the full-potential version (LMTO-FP). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. Ail rights reserved.