Year: 2026
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Dissociative chemisorption is an important reaction step in many catalytic reactions. An example of such a reaction is the Haber-Bosch process, which is used commercially to produce ammonia, an important starting material in the production of fertilisers. In theoretical descriptions of such chemical processes often approximations need to be made in order to keep the computational cost feasible, such as fixing the surface atoms in place, rather than allowing them to vibrate. In this work, several example systems (hydrogen dissociation on different metal surfaces) are used in order to test to what extent such approximations work well.
DOI: 10.60602/1887-39935
Author: Wijzenbroek, M.
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2586305544