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State-Resolved Reactivity of CH4(2ν3) on Pt(111) and Ni(111): Effects of Barrier Height and Transition State Location

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Marco Sacchi, Plinio Maroni, Thanh Tung Dang, Bruce Yoder

Quantum state-resolved sticking coefficients on Pt(111) and Ni(111) surfaces have been measured for CH4 excited to the first overtone of the antisymmetric C-H stretch (2ν3) at well defined kinetic energies in the range of 10-90 kJ/mol. The ground state rea ...

2007

Unraveling the complexity of oxygen reactions on Pt surfaces

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González

Platinum (Pt) is a key material in automotive catalytic converters used to clean up the exhaust of the combustion engine. Pt particles in a ceramic matrix serve as an oxidation catalyst to eliminate toxic carbon monoxide (CO) and unburned hydrocarbons (CxH ...

2019

Quantum state specific reactant preparation in a molecular beam by rapid adiabatic passage

Rainer Beck, Phil Morten Hundt, Helen Jane Chadwick, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen, Bruce Yoder

Highly efficient preparation of molecules in a specific rovibrationally excited state for gas/surface reactivity measurements is achieved in a molecular beam using tunable infrared (IR) radiation from a single mode continuous wave optical parametric oscill ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Transferability of the SRP32-vdW specific reaction parameter functional to CHD3 dissociation on Pt(110)-(2 × 1)

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González, Helen Jane Chadwick

Stepped transition metal surfaces, including the reconstructed Pt(110)-(2 × 1) surface, can be used to model the effect of line defects on cata- lysts. We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of CHD3 dissociation on this surface. Theoretic ...

2019

Quantum state resolved gas–surface reaction dynamics experiments: a tutorial review

Rainer Beck, Helen Jane Chadwick

We present a tutorial review of our quantum state resolved experiments designed to study gas–surface reaction dynamics. The combination of a molecular beam, state specific reactant preparation by infrared laser pumping, and ultrahigh vacuum surface analysi ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Alignment dependent chemisorption of vibrationally excited CH4(3) on Ni(100), Ni(110), and Ni(111)

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Phil Morten Hundt, Bruce Yoder

We present a stereodynamics study of the dissociative chemisorption of vibrationally excited methane on the (100), (110), and (111) planes of a nickel single crystal surface. Using linearly polarized infrared excitation of the antisymmetric C–H stretch nor ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Mode-specific reactivity of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1×2): The concerted role of stretch and bend excitation

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Marco Sacchi

The state-resolved reaction probability of CH4 on Pt(110)-(1×2) was measured as a function of CH4 translational energy for four vibrational eigenstates comprising different amounts of C-H stretch and bend excitation. State-specific reactivity is observed b ...

American Physical Society2010

Methane dissociation on the steps and terraces of Pt(211) resolved by quantum state and impact site

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González, Helen Jane Chadwick

Methane dissociation on the step and terrace sites of a Pt(211) single crystal was studied by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) at a surface temperature of 120 K. The C−H stretch RAIRS signal of the chemisorbed methyl product species was ...

American Institute of Physics2018

Vibrational Energy Redistribution in a Gas-Surface Encounter: State-to-State Scattering of CH4 from Ni(111)

Rainer Beck, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen, Bo-Jung Chen, Jörn Werdecker

The fate of vibrational energy in the collision of methane (CH4) in its antisymmetric C-H stretch vibration (ν3) with a Ni(111) surface has been studied in a state-to-state scattering experiment. Laser excitation in the incident molecular beam prepared the ...

2018

Bond selective dissociation of methane (CH3D) on the steps and terraces of Pt(211)

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González

The dissociative chemisorption of singly deuterated methane (CH3D) has been studied on the steps and terraces of a Pt(211) surface by quantum state resolved molecular beam methods. At incident translational energy (Et) below 50 kJ/mol, CH3D dissociates onl ...

2018

Site Selective Detection of Methane Dissociation on Stepped Pt Surfaces

Rainer Beck, Ana Gutiérrez González

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study comparing methane dissociation on three di erent platinum surfaces Pt(111), Pt(211), and Pt(110)-(1 × 2). Re ection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) was used to detect chemisorbed methyl speci ...

2019

Infrared Activities of Adsorbed Species on Metal Surfaces: The Puzzle of Adsorbed Methyl (CH3)

Rainer Beck, Harmina Vejayan

Reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) is widely used to identify molecular adsorbates on metals during surface chemical reactions, but the interpretation of RAIRS data can be difficult with experiment alone. Here, we reveal from first-princip ...

2021

Probing Water Dissociation and Oxygen Replacement on Partially Oxygen-Covered Cu(111) by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Mateusz Suchodol, Rainer Beck, Harmina Vejayan

The presence of chemisorbed oxygen on the Cu(111) surface is known to strongly reduce the activation barrier for water dissociation as compared to bare Cu(111). Here, we present direct experimental evidence for the hydrogen abstraction mechanism responsibl ...

2023

Quantum state-resolved gas/surface reaction dynamics probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Li Chen, Régis Bisson, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

We report the design and characterization of a new molecular-beam/surface-science apparatus for quantum state-resolved studies of gas/surface reaction dynamics combining optical state-specific reactant preparation in a molecular beam by rapid adiabatic pas ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Calculations versus Quantum-State- Resolved Experiments on CHD3 + Pt(111): New Insights into a Prototypical Gas−Surface Reaction

Rainer Beck, Francesco Nattino, Hirokazu Ueta, Helen Jane Chadwick, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen

The dissociative chemisorption of methane on metal surfaces is of fundamental and practical interest, being a rate-limiting step in the steam reforming process. The reaction is best modeled with quantum dynamics calculations, but these are currently not gu ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

The Negligible Role of C-H Stretch Excitation in the Physisorption of CH4 on Pt(111)

Rainer Beck, Li Chen, Hirokazu Ueta, Helen Jane Chadwick, Li Chen

We report a molecular beam study of the effect of vibrational excitation on the physisorption of methane on a Pt(111) surface. Our experiments use a continuous molecular beam of CH4, prepared in its antisymmetic C-H stretch mode ν3 by infrared laser pumpin ...

American Chemical Society2015

Quantum state-resolved studies of gas/surface reaction dynamics by vibrational spectroscopies

Rainer Beck

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Quantum State–Resolved Studies of Chemisorption Reactions

Rainer Beck, Helen Jane Chadwick

Chemical reactions at the gas–surface interface are ubiquitous in the chemical industry as well as in nature. Investigating these processes at a microscopic, quantum state–resolved level helps develop a predictive understanding of this important class of r ...

Annual Reviews2017

State-Resolved Methane Dissociation on Pt(111) Studied by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Li Chen, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

The dissociation of methane on Pt(111) was studied using quantum state-resolved methods and reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), at a surface temperature of 150 K where the nascent reaction products methyl(ads) and H(ads) are stable and acc ...

2015

Quantum state-resolved CH4 dissociation on Pt(111): coverage dependent barrier heights from experiment and density functional theory

Rainer Beck, Li Chen, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

The dissociative chemisorption of CH4 on Pt(111) was studied using quantum state-resolved methods at a surface temperature (Ts) of 150 K where the nascent reaction products CH3(ads) and H(ads) are stable and accumulate on the surface. Most previous experim ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013