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The interaction of CO with the Fe3O4(001)-(rt2xrt2)R45{deg} surface was studied using temperature programmed desorption (TPD), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), the latter both under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions and in CO pressures up to 1 mbar. In general, the CO-Fe3O4 interaction is found to be weak. The strongest adsorption occurs at surface defects, leading to small TPD peaks at 115 K, 130 K and 190 K. Desorption from the regular surface occurs in two distinct regimes. For coverages up to 2 CO molecules per (rt2xrt2)R45{deg} unit cell, the desorption maximum shows a large shift with increasing coverage, from initially 105 K to 70 K. For coverages between 2 and 4 molecules per (rt2xrt2)R45{deg} unit cell, a much sharper desorption feature emerges at 50 K. Thermodynamic analysis of the TPD data suggests a phase transition from a dilute 2D gas into an ordered overlayer with CO molecules bound to surface Fe3+ sites. XPS data acquired at 45 K in UHV are consistent with physisorption. Some carbon-containing species are observed in the near-ambient-pressure XPS experiments at room temperature, but are attributed to contamination and/or reaction with CO with water from the residual gas. No evidence was found for surface reduction or carburization by CO molecules.
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