Scaling Relationships for Adsorption Energies on Transition Metal Oxide, Sulfide, and Nitride Surfaces

Getting on top of things: DFT calculations have been used to study the adsorption energies of O, OH, S, SH, N, NH, and NH2 on transition metal oxide, sulfide, and nitride surfaces. A scaling relationship was found between the adsorption energies of the intermediates and the adsorption energies of the atoms which is independent of the metal and depends only on the number of H atoms in the molecule (see graph).