Abstract

Employing hot tungsten filament to thermal dissociate molecular hydrogen, we generated gas phase atomic hydrogen under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions and investigated its interaction with Pt(111) surface. Thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) results demonstrate that adsorption of molecular hydrogen on Pt(111) forms surface Had species whereas adsorption of atomic hydrogen forms not only surface Had species but also bulk Had species. Bulk Had species is more thermal-unstable than surface Had species on Pt(111), suggesting that bulk Had species is more energetic. This kind of weakly-adsorbed bulk Had species might be the active hydrogen species in the Pt-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions.

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