Proefschrift
Highly Accurate Simulations and Benchmarking of Molecule-Surface Reactions
Heterogeneous catalyzed processes are highly significant to the chemical industry. Dissociative chemisorption (DC) of molecules on surfaces is always considered as a step with a high degree of rate control for heterogeneous catalysis.
- Auteur
- T. Tchakoua
- Datum
- 04 juli 2023
- Links
- Thesis in Leiden Repository
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Our ability to comprehend the different mechanisms underlying DC on metal surfaces could benefit significantly from the availability of an accurate database for the barrier heights of elementary molecule-metal surface reactions. In this work, we used a recent implementation of specific reaction parameter (SRP) to density-functional theory (DFT) (SRP-DFT) to develop potential energy surfaces (PESs) for molecule-surface reactions. The PESs were used for molecular beam simulations and compared with molecular beam experiments. The barrier heights extracted from these PESs are now used for benchmarking.