The Interaction of Water with Solid Surfaces: Fundamental Aspects Revisited

Water is perhaps the most important and most pervasive chemical on our planet. The influence of water permeates virtually all areas of biochemical, chemical and physical importance, and is especially evident in phenomena occurring at the interfaces of solid surfaces. Since 1987, when Thiel and Madey (TM) published their review titled ‘The interaction of water with solid surfaces: fundamental aspects’ in Surface Science Reports, there has been considerable progress made in further understanding the fundamental interactions of water with solid surfaces. In the decade and a half, the increased capability of surface scientists to probe at the molecular-level has resulted in more detailed information of the properties of water on progressively more complicated materials and under more stringent conditions. This progress in understanding the properties of water on solid surfaces is evident both in areas for which surface science methodology has traditionally been strong (catalysis and electronic materials) and also in new areas not traditionally studied by surface scientists such as electrochemistry, photoconversion, mineralogy, adhesion, sensors, atmospheric chemistry and tribology. Researchers in all these fields grapple with very basic questions regarding the interactions of water with solid surfaces such as how is water adsorbed, what are the chemical and electrostatic forces that constitute the adsorbed layer, how is water thermally or non-thermally activated and how do coadsorbates influence these properties of water. The attention paid to these and other fundamental questions in the past decade and a half has been immense. In this review, experimental studies published since the TM review are assimilated with those covered by TM to provide a current picture of the fundamental interactions of water with solid surfaces.

Mechanism and kinetics of color center formation on epitaxial thin films of MgO

Surface structures on wide band gap insulators and their use as templates for the growth of adsorbates are reviewed. Surface structures include evaporation structures, vicinal surfaces, facetted surfaces, epitaxial structures, or structures transferred to or induced by the growth of thin films. Most structures have been realized so far on Al2O3 and on alkali halide crystals. The guided growth of adsorbates is discussed, considering the examples of metallic clusters or wires and ordered films of organic molecules.

Structured surfaces of wide band gap insulators as templates for overgrowth of adsorbates.

The growth of thin NaCl layers at room temperature on a Ag(100) and a Ag(1, 1, 19) substrate has been investigated by LEED spot profile analysis, supplemented by EELS in order to clarify the electronic structure of the film. Our LEED analysis of NaCl/Ag(100) shows that the average orientation of the NaCl unit mesh is the same as that of the Ag substrate, but rotational mosaics are formed in the (100) plane. The angular distribution of rotational angles has a width of ± 9° around the average direction. From this result we conclude that the direction of the substrate step edges determines the orientation of the NaCl islands. The steps of the vicinal silver surface are overgrown by elastic NaCl carpets. With increasing coverage, the modulation of the NaCl films by the step structure gets more and more washed out until, at around 10 ML, the whole film is only tilted by the nominal miscut of the sample. Closed films are only found at a thickness larger than 4 ML, as concluded from EELS.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/15/38/015/pdf

The growth of NaCl on flat and stepped silver surfaces

Stepped NaCl films grown epitaxially on Si-precovered vicinal Ge(100)

Using low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling micrsocopy, we found that epitaxial NaCl films grown on Ge(100) with thicknesses up to (at least) 15 monolayers can be modulated with a period of six lattice constants and an amplitude directed mainly normal to their surface. The (6×1) periodicity on the NaCl films is induced by a preadsorbed Na layer at very low coverages (Θ≈0.06), that form chain structures with a sixfold periodicity in one dimension. At 10 monolayers thickness of NaCl a modulation amplitude of 0.28 A was obtained.

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Adsorbate-induced one-dimensional long-range modulation of an epitaxial insulator film

Modifications in desorption kinetics of physisorbed species induced by colour centres on NaCl(100)

Kr and Xe on NaCl(100): pure phases and their miscibility

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Stepped NaCl films grown epitaxially on Si-precovered vicinal Ge(100)

Adsorbate-induced one-dimensional long-range modulation of an epitaxial insulator film

Modifications in desorption kinetics of physisorbed species induced by colour centres on NaCl(100)

Kr and Xe on NaCl(100): pure phases and their miscibility