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O: Oberflächenphysik

O 7: Surface reactions I

O 7.6: Talk

Monday, March 27, 2006, 12:30–12:45, WIL C207

Mass transport with pulses in an excitable surface reaction: Rh(110)/K/NO + H2 — •Hong Liu1, Ling Zhou2, Sebastian Günther3, and Ronald Imbihl11Institute for Physical Chemistry, Hannover University, Callinstr. 3-3a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany — 2Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA — 3LMU München, Department Chemie, Butenandstr.11 E, 81377 München, Germany

Pattern formation in the NO + H2 reaction on a Rh(110) surface predosed with potassium has been studied with photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM), low energy electron microscopy (LEEM), and with scanning photoelectron microscopy (SPEM) at ELETTRA. With the addition of potassium the NO + H2 reaction retains its excitability, but one finds now that the pulses are transporting potassium. In areas where pulses collide, a strong enrichment of K takes place. Under certain conditions stationary patterns develop in which the K-enriched areas form a macroscopic network. Compared to the unpromoted system the direction of the traveling wave fragments has been rotated by 90. A mathematical model is proposed which explains qualitatively the main observations.

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