Water interactions with terminal hydroxyls on TiO2(110)

Yingge Du; N. Aaron Deskins; Zhenrong Zhang; Zdenek Dohnalek; Michel Dupuis; Igor Lyubinetsky

doi:10.1021/jp1036876

Water interactions with terminal hydroxyls on TiO₂(110)

Yingge Du
, N. Aaron Deskins
, Zhenrong Zhang
, Zdenek Dohnalek
, Michel Dupuis
, Igor Lyubinetsky

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Baylor University

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Abstract

A combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory has been used to investigate the interactions between water molecules and terminal hydroxyls (OH_t's) adsorbed on the TiO₂(110) surface at 300 K. We show that OH_t's have a significant effect on the water reactivity. Two distinctive reaction pathways are unraveled depending on the whether H₂O and OH_t are on the same or adjacent Ti rows. The underlying reaction mechanisms involve proton transfer from H ₂O to OH_t leading to the formation of new H₂O molecules, accompanied by O scrambling and along- or across-row apparent motion of OH_t's.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17080-17084
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume	114
Issue number	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/jp1036876
State	Published - Oct 14 2010

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