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Scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular dynamics study of the Li2TiO3(001) surface

Azuma, K., Dover, C., Grinter, D. C., Grau-Crespo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8845-1719, Almora-Barrios, N., Thornton, G., Oda, T. and Tanaka, S. (2013) Scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular dynamics study of the Li2TiO3(001) surface. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117 (10). pp. 5126-5131. ISSN 1932-7447

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Abstract/Summary

We have investigated the (001) surface structure of lithium titanate (Li2TiO3) using auger electron spectroscopy (AES), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Li2TiO3 is a potential fusion reactor blanket material. After annealing at 1200 K, LEED demonstrated that the Li2TiO3(001) surface was well ordered and not reconstructed. STM imaging showed that terraces are separated in height by about 0.3 nm suggesting a single termination layer. Moreover, hexagonal patterns with a periodicity of ∼0.4 nm are observed. On the basis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, these are interpreted as a dynamic arrangement of Li atoms.

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Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
ID Code:34238
Publisher:American Chemical Society

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