The role of stress at solid surfaces in a vacuum environment and in contact with a liquid
electrolyte in reconstruction, epitaxial growth and self-organization or stabilization of …

Reducing the sizes of low dimensional materials leads to dramatic increase in the portion of
surface/interface atoms. The properties of a solid are essentially controlled by related …

We have used density functional theory to establish a database of surface energies for low
index surfaces of 60 metals in the periodic table. The data may be used as a consistent …

We have computed the surface energies, work functions, and interlayer surface relaxations
of clean (111),(100), and (110) surfaces of Al, Cu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au. We interpret …

We study the relaxations, surface energies, and work functions of low-index metallic
surfaces using pseudopotential plane-wave density-functional calculations within the …

How thiols and disulfides bind to gold surfaces to form self-assembled monolayers is a long-
standing open question. In particular, determining the nature itself of the anchor groups and …

The origin of the herringbone reconstruction on Au (111) surface has never been explained
properly at the atomic level because the large periodic length (~ 30 nm) does not allow ab …

Starting with a simple introduction into the phenomenon of surface stress from a
thermodynamic as well as from an atomistic viewpoint, the currently available literature on …

We suggest that the herringbone reconstruction of the Au (111) surface results from the
spontaneous formation of ''stress domains.''The surface is described theoretically by a 2D …

We have used scanning tunneling spectroscopy to spatially resolve the electronic structure
of clean Au (111) at low temperature. We find that the long-range herringbone reconstruction …