The morphology of thin water films on Pt(111) probed by chloroform adsorption

G. Zimbitas; A. Hodgson

doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2005.09.127

The morphology of thin water films on Pt(111) probed by chloroform adsorption

G. Zimbitas, A. Hodgson^*

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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
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Chemical Physics Letters
Volume	417
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2005.09.127
Publication status	Published - 9 Jan 2006

Keywords

water adsorption
Pt(111)
chloroform
thin water films

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