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Lifting surface reconstruction of Au (100) by tellurium adsorption

Erwen Zhang1,§, Huan Lu1,§, Wei Zhang1, Shuiyan Cao1, Yang Wang1, Rong Rong1, Ying Liu2, Zhuhua Zhang1, Ming Yang3( ), Yanpeng Liu1( ), Wanlin Guo1( )
Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Institute for Frontier Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
College of Jincheng, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China

§ Erwen Zhang and Huan Lu contributed equally to this work.

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The adsorption of tellurium (Te) atoms lifts the surface reconstruction of Au (100), accompanied with short-range ordered Te structure and then exposed Au (100)-(1 × 1) bulk phase. Scanning tunneling microscopy images and density functional theory calculations are combined to illustrate the lifting evolution of Au (100) surface and the underlying mechanism.

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The Au (100) surface has been a subject of intense studies due to excellent catalytic activities and its model character for surface science. However, the spontaneous surface reconstruction buries active Au (100) plane and limits practical applications, and how to controllably eliminate the surface reconstruction over large scale remains challenging. Here, we experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that simple decoration of the Au (100) surface by tellurium (Te) atoms can uniquely lift its reconstruction over large scale. Scanning tunneling microscopy imaging reveals that the lifting of surface reconstruction preferentially starts from the boundaries of distinct domains and then extends progressively into the domains with the reconstruction rows perpendicular to the boundaries, leaving a Au (100)-(1 × 1) surface behind. The Au (100)-(1 × 1) is saturated at ~ 84% ± 2% with respect to the whole surface at a Te coverage of 0.16 monolayer. With further increasing the Te coverage to 0.25 monolayer, the Au (100)-(1 × 1) surface becomes reduced and overlapped by a well-ordered (2 × 2)-Te superstructure. No similar behavior is found for Te-decorated Au (111), Cu (111), and Cu (100) surfaces, nor for the decorated Au (100) with other elements. This result may pave the way to design Au-based catalysts and, as an intermediate step, even potentially open a new route to constructing complex transition metal dichalcogenides.

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surface reconstruction of Au (100)telluriumfacet-dependenceadsorption energyanisotropy

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 5,
May 2023
Pages 6967-6973
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5461-0
Cite this article:
Zhang E, Lu H, Zhang W, et al. Lifting surface reconstruction of Au (100) by tellurium adsorption. Nano Research, 2023, 16(5): 6967-6973. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5461-0
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Received: 09 October 2022
Revised: 04 January 2023
Accepted: 05 January 2023
Published: 13 February 2023
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