Chemical dynamics from the gas‐phase to surfaces

DJ Auerbach, JC Tully, AM Wodtke - Natural Sciences, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The field of gas‐phase chemical dynamics has developed superb experimental methods to
probe the detailed outcome of gas‐phase chemical reactions. These experiments inspired …

Fundamental mechanisms for molecular energy conversion and chemical reactions at surfaces

GB Park, BC Krüger, D Borodin… - Reports on Progress …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The dream of theoretical surface chemistry is to predict the outcome of reactions in order to
find the ideal catalyst for a certain application. Having a working ab initio theory in hand …

Bridging the gap between direct dynamics and globally accurate reactive potential energy surfaces using neural networks

Y Zhang, X Zhou, B Jiang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Direct dynamics simulations become increasingly popular in studying reaction dynamics for
complex systems where analytical potential energy surfaces (PESs) are unavailable. Yet …

Vibrationally Mode-Specific Molecular Energy Transfer to Surface Electrons in Metastable Formaldehyde Scattering from Cesium-Covered Au (111)

B Sabour, RJV Wagner, BC Krüger… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic interaction of adsorbate nuclear motion with the continuum of electronic states
is known to affect the dynamics of chemical reactions at metal surfaces. A large body of work …

Efficient Vibrational Energy Redistribution between Stretching Modes: State-to-State Quantum Scattering of from Cu(111)

L Zhang, B Jiang - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
State-to-state scattering dynamics of H 2 O from Cu (111) has been studied by a fully
coupled quantum mechanical model which explicitly accounts for the most important …

State-to-state quantum dynamics of H2O/HOD scattering from Cu (111): Mode-and bond-selective vibrational energy transfer

L Zhang, B Jiang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular scattering at solid surfaces has been a sensitive probe of the molecule–surface
interaction. Existing theoretical studies have primarily focused on diatomic molecules …

Vibrational State-to-State Scattering of Water from Cu (111): Comparison of Quantum and Quasiclassical Methods with Normal Mode and Adiabatic Switching …

L Zhang, J Chen, B Jiang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021 - ACS Publications
Vibrational energy transfer of a polyatomic molecule upon collision at a solid surface is of
fundamental importance in surface chemistry. As a full quantum treatment of this process is …

Theoretical Study of Weakly Bound Adsorbates on Au (111): Tests on van der Waals Density Functionals

G Meng, R Yin, X Zhou, B Jiang - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding the adsorption of gaseous atoms/molecules on metal surfaces is of
fundamental importance in surface science. Here, we systematically study several …

Effects of surface motion and electron-hole pair excitations in CO2 dissociation and scattering on Ni (100)

X Luo, X Zhou, B Jiang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The energy transfer between different channels is an important aspect in chemical reactions
at surfaces. We investigate here in detail the energy transfer dynamics in a prototypical …

Trapping-desorption and direct-scattering of formaldehyde at Au (111)

BC Krüger, GB Park, S Meyer, RJV Wagner… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nonreactive surface scattering of atoms, molecules and clusters can be almost universally
described by two mechanisms: trapping-desorption and direct-scattering. A hard cube model …