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31
32 %%
33 %Introduction
34 % Experimental observations
35 % Previous work on Pt, CO, etc.
36 %
37 %Simulation Methodology
38 % FF (fits and parameters)
39 % MD (setup, equilibration, collection)
40 %
41 % Analysis of trajectories!!!
42 %Discussion
43 % CO preferences for specific locales
44 % CO-CO interactions
45 % Differences between Au & Pt
46 % Causes of 2_layer reordering in Pt
47 %Summary
48 %%
49
50 %Title
51 \title{Molecular Dynamics simulations of the surface reconstructions
52 of Pt(557) and Au(557) under exposure to CO}
53
54 \author{Joseph R. Michalka, Patrick W. McIntyre and J. Daniel
55 Gezelter\footnote{Corresponding author. \ Electronic mail: gezelter@nd.edu} \\
56 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,\\
57 University of Notre Dame\\
58 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556}
59
60 %Date
61 \date{Dec 15, 2012}
62
63 %authors
64
65 % make the title
66 \maketitle
67
68 \begin{doublespace}
69
70 \begin{abstract}
71
72 \end{abstract}
73
74 \newpage
75
76
77 \section{Introduction}
78 % Importance: catalytically active metals are important
79 % Sub: Knowledge of how their surface structure affects their ability to catalytically facilitate certain reactions is growing, but is more reactionary than predictive
80 % Sub: Designing catalysis is the future, and will play an important role in numerous processes (ones that are currently seen to be impractical, or at least inefficient)
81 % Theory can explore temperatures and pressures which are difficult to work with in experiments
82 % Sub: Also, easier to observe what is going on and provide reasons and explanations
83 %
84
85 Industrial catalysts usually consist of small particles that exhibit a
86 high concentration of steps, kink sites, and vacancies at the edges of
87 the facets. These sites are thought to be the locations of catalytic
88 activity.\cite{ISI:000083038000001,ISI:000083924800001} There is now
89 significant evidence that solid surfaces are often structurally,
90 compositionally, and chemically modified by reactants under operating
91 conditions.\cite{Tao2008,Tao:2010,Tao2011} The coupling between
92 surface oxidation states and catalytic activity for CO oxidation on
93 Pt, for instance, is widely documented.\cite{Ertl08,Hendriksen:2002}
94 Despite the well-documented role of these effects on reactivity, the
95 ability to capture or predict them in atomistic models is somewhat
96 limited. While these effects are perhaps unsurprising on the highly
97 disperse, multi-faceted nanoscale particles that characterize
98 industrial catalysts, they are manifest even on ordered, well-defined
99 surfaces. The Pt(557) surface, for example, exhibits substantial and
100 reversible restructuring under exposure to moderate pressures of
101 carbon monoxide.\cite{Tao:2010}
102
103 This work an effort to understand the mechanism and timescale for
104 surface restructuring using molecular simulations. Since the dynamics
105 of the process is of particular interest, we utilize classical force
106 fields that represent a compromise between chemical accuracy and the
107 computational efficiency necessary to observe the process of interest.
108
109 Since restructuring occurs as a result of specific interactions of the
110 catalyst with adsorbates, two metal systems exposed to carbon monoxide
111 were examined in this work. The Pt(557) surface has already been shown
112 to reconstruct under certain conditions. The Au(557) surface, because
113 of a weaker interaction with CO, is less likely to undergo this kind
114 of reconstruction. MORE HERE ON PT AND AU PREVIOUS WORK.
115
116 %Platinum molecular dynamics
117 %gold molecular dynamics
118
119 \section{Simulation Methods}
120 The challenge in modeling any solid/gas interface problem is the
121 development of a sufficiently general yet computationally tractable
122 model of the chemical interactions between the surface atoms and
123 adsorbates. Since the interfaces involved are quite large (10$^3$ -
124 10$^6$ atoms) and respond slowly to perturbations, {\it ab initio}
125 molecular dynamics
126 (AIMD),\cite{KRESSE:1993ve,KRESSE:1993qf,KRESSE:1994ul} Car-Parrinello
127 methods,\cite{CAR:1985bh,Izvekov:2000fv,Guidelli:2000fy} and quantum
128 mechanical potential energy surfaces remain out of reach.
129 Additionally, the ``bonds'' between metal atoms at a surface are
130 typically not well represented in terms of classical pairwise
131 interactions in the same way that bonds in a molecular material are,
132 nor are they captured by simple non-directional interactions like the
133 Coulomb potential. For this work, we have used classical molecular
134 dynamics with potential energy surfaces that are specifically tuned
135 for transition metals. In particular, we used the EAM potential for
136 Au-Au and Pt-Pt interactions, while modeling the CO using a rigid
137 three-site model developed by Straub and Karplus for studying
138 photodissociation of CO from myoglobin.\cite{Straub} The Au-CO and
139 Pt-CO cross interactions were parameterized as part of this work.
140
141 \subsection{Metal-metal interactions}
142 Many of the potentials used for modeling transition metals are based
143 on a non-pairwise additive functional of the local electron
144 density. The embedded atom method (EAM) is perhaps the best known of
145 these
146 methods,\cite{Daw84,Foiles86,Johnson89,Daw89,Plimpton93,Voter95a,Lu97,Alemany98}
147 but other models like the Finnis-Sinclair\cite{Finnis84,Chen90} and
148 the quantum-corrected Sutton-Chen method\cite{QSC,Qi99} have simpler
149 parameter sets. The glue model of Ercolessi {\it et al.} is among the
150 fastest of these density functional approaches.\cite{Ercolessi88} In
151 all of these models, atoms are conceptualized as a positively charged
152 core with a radially-decaying valence electron distribution. To
153 calculate the energy for embedding the core at a particular location,
154 the electron density due to the valence electrons at all of the other
155 atomic sites is computed at atom $i$'s location,
156 \begin{equation*}
157 \bar{\rho}_i = \sum_{j\neq i} \rho_j(r_{ij})
158 \end{equation*}
159 Here, $\rho_j(r_{ij})$ is the function that describes the distance
160 dependence of the valence electron distribution of atom $j$. The
161 contribution to the potential that comes from placing atom $i$ at that
162 location is then
163 \begin{equation*}
164 V_i = F[ \bar{\rho}_i ] + \sum_{j \neq i} \phi_{ij}(r_{ij})
165 \end{equation*}
166 where $F[ \bar{\rho}_i ]$ is an energy embedding functional, and
167 $\phi_{ij}(r_{ij})$ is an pairwise term that is meant to represent the
168 overlap of the two positively charged cores.
169
170 % The {\it modified} embedded atom method (MEAM) adds angular terms to
171 % the electron density functions and an angular screening factor to the
172 % pairwise interaction between two
173 % atoms.\cite{BASKES:1994fk,Lee:2000vn,Thijsse:2002ly,Timonova:2011ve}
174 % MEAM has become widely used to simulate systems in which angular
175 % interactions are important (e.g. silicon,\cite{Timonova:2011ve} bcc
176 % metals,\cite{Lee:2001qf} and also interfaces.\cite{Beurden:2002ys})
177 % MEAM presents significant additional computational costs, however.
178
179 The EAM, Finnis-Sinclair, and the Quantum Sutton-Chen potentials
180 have all been widely used by the materials simulation community for
181 simulations of bulk and nanoparticle
182 properties,\cite{Chui:2003fk,Wang:2005qy,Medasani:2007uq}
183 melting,\cite{Belonoshko00,sankaranarayanan:155441,Sankaranarayanan:2005lr}
184 fracture,\cite{Shastry:1996qg,Shastry:1998dx} crack
185 propagation,\cite{BECQUART:1993rg} and alloying
186 dynamics.\cite{Shibata:2002hh} All of these potentials have their
187 strengths and weaknesses. One of the strengths common to all of the
188 methods is the relatively large library of metals for which these
189 potentials have been
190 parameterized.\cite{Foiles86,PhysRevB.37.3924,Rifkin1992,mishin99:_inter,mishin01:cu,mishin02:b2nial,zope03:tial_ap,mishin05:phase_fe_ni}
191
192 \subsection{Carbon Monoxide model}
193 Since previous explanations for the surface rearrangements center on
194 the large linear quadrupole moment of carbon monoxide, the model
195 chosen for this molecule exhibits this property in an efficient
196 manner. We used a model first proposed by Karplus and Straub to study
197 the photodissociation of CO from myoglobin.\cite{Straub} The Straub
198 and Karplus model is a rigid linear three site model which places a
199 massless (M) site at the center of mass along the CO bond. The
200 geometry and interaction parameters are reproduced in Table 1. The
201 effective dipole moment, calculated from the assigned charges, is
202 still small (0.35 D) while the linear quadrupole (-2.40 D~\AA) is
203 close to the experimental (-2.63 D~\AA)\cite{QuadrupoleCO} and quantum
204 mechanical predictions (-2.46 D~\AA)\cite{QuadrupoleCOCalc}.
205 %CO Table
206 \begin{table}[H]
207 \caption{Positions, Lennard-Jones parameters ($\sigma$ and
208 $\epsilon$), and charges for the CO-CO
209 interactions borrowed from Ref. \bibpunct{}{}{,}{n}{}{,} \protect\cite{Straub}. Distances are in \AA~, energies are
210 in kcal/mol, and charges are in atomic units.}
211 \centering
212 \begin{tabular}{| c | c | ccc |}
213 \hline
214 & {\it z} & $\sigma$ & $\epsilon$ & q\\
215 \hline
216 \textbf{C} & -0.6457 & 0.0262 & 3.83 & -0.75 \\
217 \textbf{O} & 0.4843 & 0.1591 & 3.12 & -0.85 \\
218 \textbf{M} & 0.0 & - & - & 1.6 \\
219 \hline
220 \end{tabular}
221 \end{table}
222
223 \subsection{Cross-Interactions between the metals and carbon monoxide}
224
225 Since the adsorption of CO onto a platinum surface has been the focus
226 of much experimental \cite{Yeo, Hopster:1978, Ertl:1977, Kelemen:1979}
227 and theoretical work
228 \cite{Beurden:2002ys,Pons:1986,Deshlahra:2009,Feibelman:2001,Mason:2004}
229 there is a significant amount of data on adsorption energies for CO on
230 clean metal surfaces. Parameters reported by Korzeniewski {\it et
231 al.}\cite{Pons:1986} were a starting point for our fits, which were
232 modified to ensure that the Pt-CO interaction favored the atop binding
233 position on Pt(111). This resulting binding energies are on the higher
234 side of the experimentally-reported values. Following Korzeniewski
235 {\it et al.},\cite{Pons:1986} the Pt-C interaction was fit to a deep
236 Lennard-Jones interaction to mimic strong, but short-ranged partial
237 binding between the Pt $d$ orbitals and the $\pi^*$ orbital on CO. The
238 Pt-O interaction was parameterized to a Morse potential with a large
239 range parameter ($r_o$). In most cases, this contributes a weak
240 repulsion which favors the atop site. The resulting potential-energy
241 surface suitably recovers the calculated Pt-C separation length
242 (1.6~\AA)\cite{Beurden:2002ys} and affinity for the atop binding
243 position.\cite{Deshlahra:2012, Hopster:1978}
244
245 %where did you actually get the functionals for citation?
246 %scf calculations, so initial relaxation was of the four layers, but two layers weren't kept fixed, I don't think
247 %same cutoff for slab and slab + CO ? seems low, although feibelmen had values around there...
248 The Au-C and Au-O cross-interactions were fit using Lennard-Jones and
249 Morse potentials, respectively, to reproduce Au-CO binding energies.
250
251 The fits were refined against gas-surface DFT calculations with a
252 periodic supercell plane-wave basis approach, as implemented in the
253 {\sc Quantum ESPRESSO} package.\cite{QE-2009} Electron cores are
254 described with the projector augmented-wave (PAW)
255 method,\cite{PhysRevB.50.17953,PhysRevB.59.1758} with plane waves
256 included to an energy cutoff of 20 Ry. Electronic energies are
257 computed with the PBE implementation of the generalized gradient
258 approximation (GGA) for gold, carbon, and oxygen that was constructed
259 by Rappe, Rabe, Kaxiras, and Joannopoulos.\cite{Perdew_GGA,RRKJ_PP}
260 Ionic relaxations were performed until the energy difference between
261 subsequent steps was less than $10^{-8}$ Ry. In testing the CO-Au
262 interaction, Au(111) supercells were constructed of four layers of 4
263 Au x 2 Au surface planes and separated from vertical images by six
264 layers of vacuum space. The surface atoms were all allowed to relax.
265 Supercell calculations were performed nonspin-polarized with a 4 x 4 x
266 4 Monkhorst-Pack {\bf k}-point sampling of the first Brillouin
267 zone.\cite{Monkhorst:1976,PhysRevB.13.5188} The relaxed gold slab was
268 then used in numerous single point calculations with CO at various
269 heights (and angles relative to the surface) to allow fitting of the
270 empirical force field.
271
272 %Hint at future work
273 The parameters employed in this work are shown in Table 2 and the
274 binding energies on the 111 surfaces are displayed in Table 3. To
275 speed up the computations, charge transfer and polarization are not
276 being treated in this model, although these effects are likely to
277 affect binding energies and binding site
278 preferences.\cite{Deshlahra:2012}
279
280 %Table of Parameters
281 %Pt Parameter Set 9
282 %Au Parameter Set 35
283 \begin{table}[H]
284 \caption{Best fit parameters for metal-CO cross-interactions. Metal-C
285 interactions are modeled with Lennard-Jones potential, while the
286 (mostly-repulsive) metal-O interactions were fit to Morse
287 potentials. Distances are given in \AA~and energies in kcal/mol. }
288 \centering
289 \begin{tabular}{| c | cc | c | ccc |}
290 \hline
291 & $\sigma$ & $\epsilon$ & & $r$ & $D$ & $\gamma$ (\AA$^{-1}$) \\
292 \hline
293 \textbf{Pt-C} & 1.3 & 15 & \textbf{Pt-O} & 3.8 & 3.0 & 1 \\
294 \textbf{Au-C} & 1.9 & 6.5 & \textbf{Au-O} & 3.8 & 0.37 & 0.9\\
295
296 \hline
297 \end{tabular}
298 \end{table}
299
300 %Table of energies
301 \begin{table}[H]
302 \caption{Adsorption energies for CO on M(111) using the potentials
303 described in this work. All values are in eV}
304 \centering
305 \begin{tabular}{| c | cc |}
306 \hline
307 & Calculated & Experimental \\
308 \hline
309 \multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{Pt-CO}} & \multirow{2}{*}{-1.9} & -1.4 \bibpunct{}{}{,}{n}{}{,}
310 (Ref. \protect\cite{Kelemen:1979}) \\
311 & & -1.9 \bibpunct{}{}{,}{n}{}{,} (Ref. \protect\cite{Yeo}) \\ \hline
312 \textbf{Au-CO} & -0.39 & -0.40 \bibpunct{}{}{,}{n}{}{,} (Ref. \protect\cite{TPD_Gold}) \\
313 \hline
314 \end{tabular}
315 \end{table}
316
317 \subsection{Pt(557) and Au(557) metal interfaces}
318
319 Our model systems are composed of 3888 Pt atoms and XXXX Au atoms in a
320 FCC crystal that have been cut along the 557 plane so that they are
321 periodic in the {\it x} and {\it y} directions, and have been rotated
322 to expose two parallel 557 cuts along the positive and negative {\it
323 z}-axis. Simulations of the bare metal interfaces at temperatures
324 ranging from 300~K to 1200~K were done to observe the relative
325 stability of the surfaces without a CO overlayer.
326
327 The different bulk (and surface) melting temperatures (1337~K for Au
328 and 2045~K for Pt) suggest that the reconstruction may happen at
329 different temperatures for the two metals. To copy experimental
330 conditions for the CO-exposed surfaces, the bare surfaces were
331 initially run in the canonical (NVT) ensemble at 800~K and 1000~K
332 respectively for 100 ps. Each surface was exposed to a range of CO
333 that was initially placed in the vacuum region. Upon full adsorption,
334 these amounts correspond to 0\%, 5\%, 25\%, 33\%, and 50\% surface
335 coverage. Because of the difference in binding energies, the platinum
336 systems very rarely had CO that was not bound to the surface, while
337 the gold surfaces often had a significant CO population in the gas
338 phase. These systems were allowed to reach thermal equilibrium (over
339 5 ns) before being shifted to the microcanonical (NVE) ensemble for
340 data collection. All of the systems examined had at least 40 ns in the
341 data collection stage, although simulation times for some of the
342 systems exceeded 200ns. All simulations were run using the open
343 source molecular dynamics package, OpenMD.\cite{Ewald,OOPSE,OpenMD}
344
345 % Just results, leave discussion for discussion section
346 \section{Results}
347 Tao {\it et al.} showed experimentally that the Pt(557) surface
348 undergoes two separate reconstructions upon CO
349 adsorption.\cite{Tao:2010} The first reconstruction involves a
350 doubling of the step edge height which is accomplished by a doubling
351 of the plateau length. The second reconstruction led to the formation
352 of triangular clusters that arrange themselves along the lengthened
353 plateaus.
354
355 The primary observation and results of our simulation is that the
356 presence of CO overlayer on Pt(557) causes the same kind of
357 reconstruction observed experimentally. The 6-atom 111 facets
358 initially become disordered, and after 20-40 ns, a double-layer (with
359 a 2-atom step between terraces) forms. However, we did not observe
360 the triangular cluster formation that was observed at longer times in
361 the experiments. Without the CO present on the Pt(557) surface, there
362 was some disorder at the step edges, but no significant restructuring
363 was observed.
364
365 In these simulations, the Au(557) surface did not exhibit any
366 significant restructuring either with or without the presence of a CO
367 overlayer.
368
369 \subsection{Transport of surface metal atoms}
370 An ideal metal surface displaying a low energy (111) face is unlikely
371 to experience much surface diffusion because of the large vacancy
372 formation energy for atoms at the surface. This implies that
373 significant energy must be expended to lift an atom out of the flat
374 face so it can migrate on the surface. Rougher surfaces and those
375 that already contain numerous adatoms, step edges, and kinks, are
376 expected to have higher surface diffusion rates. Metal atoms that are
377 mobile on the surface were observed to leave and then rejoin step
378 edges or other formations. They may travel together or as isolated
379 atoms. The primary challenge of quantifying the overall surface
380 mobility is in defining ``mobile'' vs. ``static'' atoms.
381
382 A particle was considered mobile once it had traveled more than 2~\AA~
383 between saved configurations (XX ps). Restricting the transport
384 calculations to only mobile atoms eliminates all of the bulk metal as
385 well as any surface atoms that remain fixed for a significant length
386 of time. Since diffusion on a surface is strongly affected by local
387 structures, the diffusion parallel to the step edges was determined
388 separately from the diffusion perpendicular to these edges. The
389 parallel and perpendicular diffusion constants (determined using
390 linear fits to the mean squared displacement) are shown in figure \ref{fig:diff}.
391
392 %While an ideal metallic surface is unlikely to experience much surface diffusion, high-index surfaces have large numbers of low-coordinated atoms which have a much easier time overcoming the energetic barriers limiting diffusion, leading to easier surface reconstructions. Surface movement was divided between the parallel ($\parallel$) and perpendicular ($\perp$) directions relative to the step edge. We were then able to calculate diffusion constants as a function of CO coverage. As can be seen in Table 4, the presence and amount of CO directly affects the diffusion constants of surface platinum atoms. The presence of two 50\% coverage systems is to show how the diffusion process is affected by time. The majority of the systems were run for approximately 50 ns while the half monolayer system has been running continuously. The lowered diffusion constant at longer run times will be examined in-depth in the discussion section.
393
394 \begin{figure}[H]
395 \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{DiffusionComparison_error.png}
396 \caption{Diffusion constants for mobile surface atoms along directions
397 parallel ($\mathbf{D}_{\parallel}$) and perpendicular
398 ($\mathbf{D}_{\perp}$) to the 557 step edges as a function of CO
399 surface coverage. Diffusion parallel to the step edge is higher
400 than that perpendicular to the edge because of the lower energy
401 barrier associated with going from approximately 7 nearest neighbors
402 to 5, as compared to the 3 of an adatom. Additionally, the observed
403 maximum and subsequent decrease for the Pt system suggests that the
404 CO self-interactions are playing a significant role with regards to
405 movement of the platinum atoms around and more importantly across
406 the surface. }
407 \label{fig:diff}
408 \end{figure}
409
410 %Table of Diffusion Constants
411 %Add gold?M
412 % \begin{table}[H]
413 % \caption{}
414 % \centering
415 % \begin{tabular}{| c | cc | cc | }
416 % \hline
417 % &\multicolumn{2}{c|}{\textbf{Platinum}}&\multicolumn{2}{c|}{\textbf{Gold}} \\
418 % \hline
419 % \textbf{Surface Coverage} & $\mathbf{D}_{\parallel}$ & $\mathbf{D}_{\perp}$ & $\mathbf{D}_{\parallel}$ & $\mathbf{D}_{\perp}$ \\
420 % \hline
421 % 50\% & 4.32(2) & 1.185 $\pm$ 0.008 & 1.72 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.455 $\pm$ 0.006 \\
422 % 33\% & 5.18 $\pm$ 0.03 & 1.999 $\pm$ 0.005 & 1.95 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.337 $\pm$ 0.004 \\
423 % 25\% & 5.01 $\pm$ 0.02 & 1.574 $\pm$ 0.004 & 1.26 $\pm$ 0.03 & 0.377 $\pm$ 0.006 \\
424 % 5\% & 3.61 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.355 $\pm$ 0.002 & 1.84 $\pm$ 0.03 & 0.169 $\pm$ 0.004 \\
425 % 0\% & 3.27 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.147 $\pm$ 0.004 & 1.50 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.194 $\pm$ 0.002 \\
426 % \hline
427 % \end{tabular}
428 % \end{table}
429
430 %Discussion
431 \section{Discussion}
432
433 Mechanism for restructuring
434
435 There are a number of possible mechanisms to explain the role of
436 adsorbed CO in restructuring the Pt surface. Quadrupolar repulsion
437 between adjacent CO molecules adsorbed on the surface is one
438 possibility. However, the quadrupole-quadrupole interaction is
439 short-ranged and is attractive for some orientations. If the CO
440 molecules are locked in a specific orientation relative to each other,
441 this explanation gains some weight.
442
443 Another possible mechanism for the restructuring is in the
444 destabilization of strong Pt-Pt interactions by CO adsorbed on surface
445 Pt atoms. This could have the effect of increasing surface mobility
446 of these atoms.
447
448 Comparing the results from simulation to those reported previously by
449 Tao et al. the similarities in the platinum and CO system are quite
450 strong. As shown in figure, the simulated platinum system under a CO
451 atmosphere will restructure slightly by doubling the terrace
452 heights. The restructuring appears to occur slowly, one to two
453 platinum atoms at a time. Looking at individual snapshots, these
454 adatoms tend to either rise on top of the plateau or break away from
455 the step edge and then diffuse perpendicularly to the step direction
456 until reaching another step edge. This combination of growth and decay
457 of the step edges appears to be in somewhat of a state of dynamic
458 equilibrium. However, once two previously separated edges meet as
459 shown in figure 1.B, this point tends to act as a focus or growth
460 point for the rest of the edge to meet up, akin to that of a
461 zipper. From the handful of cases where a double layer was formed
462 during the simulation, measuring from the initial appearance of a
463 growth point, the double layer tends to be fully formed within
464 $\sim$~35 ns.
465
466 \subsection{Diffusion}
467 As shown in the results section, the diffusion parallel to the step edge tends to be much faster than that perpendicular to the step edge. Additionally, the coverage of CO appears to play a slight role in relative rates of diffusion, as shown in Table 4. Thus, the bottleneck of the double layer formation appears to be the initial formation of this growth point, which seems to be somewhat of a stochastic event. Once it appears, parallel diffusion, along the now slightly angled step edge, will allow for a faster formation of the double layer than if the entire process were dependent on only perpendicular diffusion across the plateaus. Thus, the larger $D_{\perp}$, the more likely a growth point is to be formed. One driving force behind this reconstruction appears to be the lowering of surface energy that occurs by doubling the terrace widths. (I'm not really proving this... I have the surface flatness to show it, but surface energy?)
468 \\
469 \\
470 %Evolution of surface
471 \begin{figure}[H]
472 \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{ProgressionOfDoubleLayerFormation_yellowCircle.png}
473 \caption{The Pt(557) / 50\% CO system at a sequence of times after
474 initial exposure to the CO: (a) 258 ps, (b) 19 ns, (c) 31.2 ns, and
475 (d) 86.1 ns. Disruption of the 557 step edges occurs quickly. The
476 doubling of the layers appears only after two adjacent step edges
477 touch. The circled spot in (b) nucleated the growth of the double
478 step observed in the later configurations.}
479 \end{figure}
480
481
482 %Peaks!
483 \begin{figure}[H]
484 \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{doublePeaks_noCO.png}
485 \caption{}
486 \end{figure}
487 \section{Conclusion}
488
489
490 \section{Acknowledgments}
491 Support for this project was provided by the National Science
492 Foundation under grant CHE-0848243 and by the Center for Sustainable
493 Energy at Notre Dame (cSEND). Computational time was provided by the
494 Center for Research Computing (CRC) at the University of Notre Dame.
495
496 \newpage
497 \bibliography{firstTryBibliography}
498 \end{doublespace}
499 \end{document}