Abstract
Professor Ertl was awarded the chemistry Nobel Prize. One of his remarkable works is imaging of surface non-linear processes for CO oxidation on Pt(110). The mechanism for this pattern formation is briefly discussed. We studied previously laser-induced desorption (LID) from NO on Pt(111) extensively. However, the experimental results could not be explained until the adsorption structure of Pt(111)-NO was elucidated consistently in 2002 by the experimental and the theoretical investigation. For Pt(111)-CO at low coverage, on the other hand, the most stable adsorption structure obtained from the ab initio calculations is in contradiction to that confirmed by the experimental studies.
