Traveling Nanoscale Structures in Reactive Adsorbates with Attractive Lateral Interactions

M. Hildebrand, A. S. Mikhailov, and G. Ertl
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2602 – Published 21 September 1998
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Abstract

A novel type of traveling structures in surface chemical reactions is presented. These structures, resulting from the competition between reactions, diffusion, and the phase transition caused by attractive lateral interactions between adsorbed particles, are predicted to exist on submicrometer and nanometer scales. We show that internal fluctuations lead to a complex dynamics of interacting wave fragments in this system.

  • Received 25 March 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2602

©1998 American Physical Society

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M. Hildebrand, A. S. Mikhailov, and G. Ertl

  • Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

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Vol. 81, Iss. 12 — 21 September 1998

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