Abstract
Methods are developed to describe catalytic reactions on multi-facetted surfaces in high electric fields in the conditions of field emission microscopy. These methods are applied to the hydrogen–oxygen–rhodium system for which a mean-field kinetic model is established. This model is shown to reproduce not only the nonequilibrium regimes of bistability and oscillations and their nanopatterns, but also the temperature-programmed desorption spectra of hydrogen and oxygen on rhodium, as well as the equilibrium phase diagram of oxygen on rhodium with the transition to the trilayer surface oxide ORhO. The dependence of the kinetic constants on the surface orientation of the facets is taken into account by expanding them in kubic harmonics suitable for the fcc rhodium crystal. The electric field modifies the gas pressure as well as the activation energies of the different kinetic processes. The tip of the field emission microscope is shown to behave as a nanoreactor.
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