Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interactions: Atomic-Level Understanding of Scattering Processes at Surfaces (Springer Surface Sciences #50)

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Supersonic molecular beams studies of surfaces.- Potential energy surfaces for the dynamics of elementary gas-surface processes.- Thermal energy atomic and molecular beam diffraction from solid surfaces.- Using molecular reflectivity to explore reaction dynamics at metal surfaces.- Hydrogen dissociation on stepped metal surfaces.- Dynamics of the H2 interaction with bimetallic surface alloys from first principles..- Hydrogen recombination on graphitic surfaces.- State-selective reactivity of molecules at surfaces.- The effects of lattice motion on gas-surface reactions.- Reaction dynamics of molecular hydrogen on silicon surfaces --importance of lattice degrees of freedom.- Electronically nonadiabatic molecule surface interactions..- Non-adiabatic effects at surfaces simulated with TDDFT molecular dynamics.- Theory of non-adiabatic molecular dynamics at surfaces.- Scattering of hyperthermal effusive atomic and molecular beams at metal surfaces.- Energy dissipation channels in reactive and non-reactive scattering at surfaces.- O2 adsorption dynamics at metal surfaces: non-adiabatic effects, dissociation, and dissipation.