In order to resolve substrate effects on the adlayer structure and structure formation and on the substrate-adsorbate and adsorbate-adsorbate interactions, we investigated the adsorption of thin films of the ionic liquid (IL) 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium-bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide [BMP][TFSA] on the close-packed Ag(111) and Au(111) surfaces by scanning tunneling microscopy, under ultra ...

Metal octaethylporphyrins (M-OEP), M-N(4)C(20)H(4)(C(2)H(5))(8), adsorbed at a metallic substrate are promising candidates to provide spin dependent electric transport. Despite these systems having been studied extensively by experiment, details of the adsorbate geometry and surface binding are still unclear. We have carried out density functional theory calculations for cobalt octaethyl porphy...

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) were prepared on gold substrates from an unsymmetrical partially fluorinated spiroalkanedithiol adsorbate with the specific structure of [CH3(CH2)7][CF3(CF2)7(CH2)8]C[CH2SH]2 (SADT) and compared to SAMs formed from the semifluorinated monothiol F8H10SH [CF3(CF2)7(CH2)10SH] of analogous chain length and n-octadecanethiol. The adsorbate with two alkyl chains, one ...

Single 4,7,12,15-tetrakis(4'-dimethylaminostyryl)[2.2]paracyclophane molecules adsorb on NiAl(110) in different configurations. When the symmetry axes of the molecules are properly oriented with respect to the surface lattice, three adsorbate states of different conductance can be reversibly induced and directly imaged with a scanning tunneling microscope. Couplings between tunneling electrons ...

It is demonstrated that surface vibrational spectroscopy can be used to probe local ordering of adsorbates and the nature of inter-adsorbate interactions through dynamical dipole coupling among neighboring adsorbates. Our studies show that for CO adsorbed on Cu(100), first and second nearest neighbor interactions are repulsive. This repulsion prevents the formation of long range ordered structu...

Diffusion of adsorbates on transition metal nanoparticles is a precursor process for heterogeneously catalyzed reactions, and as a result, an atomistic understanding of the diffusion mechanism is very important. We systematically studied adsorption and diffusion of atomic and diatomic species (H, C, N, O, CO, and NO) on nanometer-sized Pt and Cu nanoparticles with different sizes and shapes usi...

A transfer matrix approach is used to conduct a thorough investigation of all possible adsorbate configurations or phases on terraces of various widths M including edge effects, and limited to firstand second-neighbor adsorbate–adsorbate interactions. Figures showing the configurations that occur within this model are presented for M 1⁄4 3 and 4, and detailed tables provide the phase sequences ...

Adsorption microcalorimetry measures the energetics of adsorbate-surface interactions and can be performed by use of several different techniques. This review focuses on three methods: single-crystal adsorption calorimetry (SCAC), isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), and electrochemical adsorption calorimetry. SCAC is a uniquely powerful technique that has been applied to a variety of atoms ...

We present a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study of increasing coverages of 2,5-dichlorothiophenol, an asymmetrically halo-substituted aromatic thiol, on Cu(111). At low coverage, deprotonation of the thiol occurs spontaneously upon adsorption at 80 K. Albeit the low deposition temperature, we find the formation of adsorbate islands at low coverage, which coalesce into a well-or...