Influence of lateral interactions on the kinetic characteristics of monomolecular adsorption

The influence of paired lateral interactions on the characteristics of monomolecular adsorption (the rate constant, energy of activation, preexponential factor) was considered. The calculations were carried out by the transfer-matrix method. The possibility was shown of a nonmonotonic dependence of the desorption constant and the activation energy. The data obtained were compared with the calculation results obtained by the Monte Carlo method.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 47–52, January–February, 1992.The authors wish to express their gratitude to V. I. Elokhin, V. P. Zhdanov, L. V. Lutevich, and V. D. Sokolovskii for helpful advice and discussions.