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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dillinger, Sebastian
• Mohrbach, Jennifer
• Niedner-Schatteburg, Gereon

Titel

Probing cluster surface morphology by cryo spectroscopy of N2 on cationic nickel clusters

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of chemical physics, 2017-11, Vol.147 (18), p.184305-184305

Ort / Verlag

Melville: American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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• We present the cryogenic (26 K) IR spectra of selected [Nin(N2)m]+ (n = 5–20, m = 1 − mmax), which strongly reveal n- and m-dependent features in the N2 stretching region, in conjunction with density functional theory modeling of some of these findings. The observed spectral features allow us to refine the kinetic classification [cf. J. Mohrbach, S. Dillinger, and G. Niedner-Schatteburg, J. Chem. Phys. 147, 184304 (2017)] and to define four classes of structure related surface adsorption behavior: Class (1) of Ni6 +, Ni13 +, and Ni19 + are highly symmetrical clusters with all smooth surfaces of equally coordinated Ni atoms that entertain stepwise N2 adsorption up to stoichiometric N2:Nisurface saturation. Class (2) of Ni12 + and Ni18 + are highly symmetrical clusters minus one. Their relaxed smooth surfaces reorganize by enhanced N2 uptake toward some low coordinated Ni surface atoms with double N2 occupation. Class (3) of Ni5 + and Ni7 + through Ni11 + are small clusters of rough surfaces with low coordinated Ni surface atoms, and some reveal semi-internal Ni atoms of high next-neighbor coordination. Surface reorganization upon N2 uptake turns rough into rough surface by Ni atom migration and turns octahedral based structures into pentagonal bipyramidal structures. Class (4) of Ni14 + through Ni17 + and Ni20 + are large clusters with rough and smooth surface areas. They possess smooth icosahedral surfaces with some proximate capping atom(s) on one hemisphere of the icosahedron with the other one largely unaffected.