Quantum and classical dynamics of reactive scattering of H 2 from metal surfaces

GJ Kroes, C Díaz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the art in dynamics calculations on the reactive scattering of H2 from
metal surfaces, which is an important model system of an elementary reaction that is …

[HTML][HTML] Non-adiabatic effects in elementary reaction processes at metal surfaces

M Alducin, RD Muiño, JI Juaristi - Progress in Surface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Great success has been achieved in the modeling of gas-surface elementary processes by
the use of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. However, in metal surfaces low energy …

Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy

GJ Kroes - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas
phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis …

The dynamics of molecular interactions and chemical reactions at metal surfaces: Testing the foundations of theory

K Golibrzuch, N Bartels, DJ Auerbach… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We review studies of molecular interactions and chemical reactions at metal surfaces,
emphasizing progress toward a predictive theory of surface chemistry and catalysis. For …

Testing Electronic Friction Models: Vibrational De-excitation in Scattering of H2 and D2 from Cu(111)

P Spiering, J Meyer - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
At present, molecular dynamics with electronic friction (MDEF) is the workhorse model to go
beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation in modeling dynamics of molecules at metal …

Energy dissipation at metal surfaces

SP Rittmeyer, VJ Bukas, K Reuter - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Conversion of energy at the gas–solid interface lies at the heart of many industrial
applications such as heterogeneous catalysis. Dissipation of parts of this energy into the …

Electron–hole pair effects in polyatomic dissociative chemisorption: Water on Ni (111)

B Jiang, M Alducin, H Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The influence of electron–hole pairs in dissociative chemisorption of a polyatomic molecule
(water) on metal surfaces is assessed for the first time using a friction approach. The atomic …

Surface electron density models for accurate ab initio molecular dynamics with electronic friction

D Novko, M Blanco-Rey, M Alducin, JI Juaristi - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Ab initio molecular dynamics with electronic friction (AIMDEF) is a valuable methodology to
study the interaction of atomic particles with metal surfaces. This method, in which the effect …

First-principles insights into adiabatic and nonadiabatic vibrational energy-transfer dynamics during molecular scattering from metal surfaces: the importance of …

X Zhou, G Meng, H Guo, B Jiang - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Energy transfer is ubiquitous during molecular collisions and reactions at gas–surface
interfaces. Of particular importance is vibrational energy transfer because of its relevance to …

Hot-electron effects during reactive scattering of H 2 from Ag (111): the interplay between mode-specific electronic friction and the potential energy landscape

Y Zhang, RJ Maurer, H Guo, B Jiang - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The breakdown of the Born–Oppenheimer approximation gives rise to nonadiabatic effects
in gas-surface reactions at metal surfaces. However, for a given reaction, it remains unclear …