title: Communications: Exceptions to the d-band model of chemisorption on metal surfaces: The dominant role of repulsion between adsorbate states and metal d-states.
abstract: We show that there is a family of adsorbate-substrate systems that do not follow the trends in adsorption energies predicted by the d-band model. A physically transparent model is used to analyze this phenomenon. We found that these adsorbate-substrate pairs are characterized by the repulsive interaction of the substrate d-band with the renormalized adsorbate states. The exceptions to the d-band model are mainly associated with the adsorbates having almost completely filled valence shell, and the substrates with nearly fully occupied d-band, e.g., OH, F, or Cl adsorption on metals and alloys characterized by d(9) or d(10) substrate surface atoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Hongliang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Suljo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Linic