Methanol dissociative adsorption on Pt(100) as studied by nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy

Franck Vidal, Bertrand Busson, Catherine Six, Abderrahmane Tadjeddine, Laurent Dreesen, Christophe Humbert, André Peremans, Paul Thiry

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Abstract

The methanol dissociative adsorption on Pt(1 0 0) at low potentials in the hydrogen region is studied using nonlinear vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. It is shown that adsorbed hydrogen atoms effectively block atop sites at the surface. In the hydrogen potential region, CO produced by the methanol dissociation adsorbs at step-edges and in bridge sites on terraces as shown by the characteristic stretching frequencies observed for adsorbed CO.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-14
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
Volume563
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2004

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