Abstract
We have investigated water adsorption on Pt(111) using chloroform to probe the structure and binding sites available on the ice surface. A stable adsorption site appears, associated with growth of ice crystallites on the (39×39)R16° wetting layer, and disappears slowly as the film grows and loses its registry to the wetting layer. The 39 multilayer consists of ordered crystalline ice nuclei which aggregate progressively into a continuous incommensurate ice as the film grows to ∼40 layers, the entire film and wetting layer restructuring into an oriented bulk ice only for films more than 50 layers thick.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
Volume | 417 |
Issue number | 1-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 9 Jan 2006 |
Keywords
- water adsorption
- Pt(111)
- chloroform
- thin water films