Complex Interadsorbate Interactions:
How Molecules Communicate
Interadsorbate interactions may be broadly categorised as arising due
to either through-space mechanisms or substrate-mediated phenomena.
Although they are most often repulsive in character, a classic example
of important attractive interactions is the formation of extended
hydrogen-bonded networks on the surface, found in the adsorption of
water, amino acids, and other biologically-relevant molecules.
Unexpected attractive interaction is also found in the stable
coadsorption of NO2 and CO (two electronegative species) on Au{111}.
We aim to study these and other systems, in which the interadsorbate
interactions are both important and far from simple.
Related techniques
Fibre-Optic Low Energy Electron Diffraction (FO-LEED)
Reflection Absorption Infra-Red Spectroscopy (RAIRS)
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM)
Density Functional Theory (DFT)
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