Statistical rate theory description of beam-dosing adsorption kinetics

Absolute rate theory and the sticking probability approach have been previously examined as possible means of predicting the rate of adsorption. However, when applied to examine adsorption kinetics, they have been found not to contain the coverage and pressure dependence required for several important systems including CO–Ni(111). Statistical rate theory (SRT) is being developed with the objective of predicting the rate of molecular (or atomic) transport across the interface between macroscopic phases in terms of experimentally controllable variables and material properties of the two phases. Previous applications of SRT to adsorption have been limited to systems for which both the gas phase pressure and the temperature could be assumed to be constant. Herein, the SRT approach is extended to systems in which the number of molecules in the system (and hence the gas phase pressure) is not constant. To examine this extension, SRT is used to formulate the equations governing the rate of adsorption in isotherm...

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