ISSN:
1432-0630
Keywords:
82.65
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
Notes:
Abstract The desorption kinetics of dissociatively chemisorbed diatomic molecules are examined from a kinetic-modeling point of view. A comparison is made between a one-step process, resulting in the usual second-order kinetics, and a two-step process which takes into account explicity recombination of atoms and subsequent desorption of molecules. The kinetics from the two-step mechanism are found to be equivalent to second-order desorption with a coverage-dependent activation energy which, in many cases, is a linear function of coverage. The two-step process leads to second-order kinetics with a constant activation energy only for special values of the model rate parameters, or if chemisorption is activated. The steady onate approximation for the intermediate in the two-step process is often adequate, but the transient period during which a steady state is reached also contains important kinetic information. The implications of these results for desorption kinetics and molecular beam reaction experiments are discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00930105
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