Abstract

A simple model is used to treat mobile adsorption on a structureless substrate. The influence of temperature on the state of motion of adsorbed particles is described by means of an interpolation formula used earlier in the theory of hindered rotation, whereas the influence of the nearest-neighbour potential with varying degree of coverage is accounted for in terms of a “free area”, available for individual particle motion, for which a simple analytical expression, based on an harmonic oscillator approximation, is obtained. An irregularity in the long range order of the adsorbed monolayer is introduced in terms of “varying distances”, resp. of varying energy bonds between the particles in dependence of the number of nearest neighbours actually present in the first coordination sphere of each particle (nonadditivity of the bonds).

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