Chemisorption of Nitric Oxide on Tungsten
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 45 (5), 1623-1634
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1727805
Abstract
The chemisorption of NO on polycrystalline W has been investigated using a combination of ultrahigh‐vacuum techniques: flash‐desorption mass spectroscopy and field‐emission microscopy. It has been found that NO chemisorbs nondissociatively on W at room temperature. Dissociation occurs at elevated temperature with an activation energy of about 47 kcal/mole (197 kJ/mole). Kinetic evidence indicates that dissociation involves the interaction of an adsorbed NO molecule with a neighbor empty site. At high NO coverage, dissociation is rate controlling for the liberation of ω‐mode nitrogen near 1000°K. Heating of an NO‐shadowed W field‐emission tip above ∼700°K results in the formation of a receding boundary which remains sharp during the entire course of its backward motion over the initially covered region. This behavior is consistent with a model involving dissociation of NO at the boundary where empty sites are available. For monolayer NO (1.4×1015 molecules cm−2) on polycrystalline W, Δφ=+1.85±0.10 eV; this corresponds to an average surface dipole moment of 0.35‐D per chemisorbed NO molecule at full coverage.Keywords
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