a CAMP and Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
b CAMP and Physics Department, Technical University of Denmark, DK 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract:
From an interplay between scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, a comprehensive picture is obtained for oxygen adsorption on the Pt(110)-(1×2) surface, from single isolated oxygen atoms chemisorbed in FCC sites along the platinum ridges to the formation of a new high-coverage oxide-like structure with a local coverage of two oxygen atoms per platinum surface atom. We find that the repulsive O–O interactions for the O/Pt(110) system are compensated by an effective O–O attractive interaction originating from a strong coupling between oxygen adsorption and platinum lattice distortions.