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Main Authors: Jubin, S., Rau, A., Barsukov, Y., Ethier, S., Kaganovich, I. D.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02547
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  • Though weak surface interactions and adsorption can play an important role in plasma processing and materials science, they are not necessarily simple to model. A boron adatom adsorbed on a graphene sheet serves as a case study for how carefully one must select the correct technique from a toolbox of computational chemistry methods. Using a variety of molecular dynamics potentials and density functional theory functionals, we evaluate the adsorption energy, investigate barriers to adsorption and migration, calculate corresponding reaction rates, and show that a surprisingly high level of theory may be necessary to verify that the system is described correctly.