Influence of auto-organization and fluctuation effects on the kinetics of a monomer-monomer catalytic scheme

We study analytically kinetics of an elementary bimolecular reaction scheme of the Langmuir-Hinshelwood type taking place on a d-dimensional catalytic substrate. We propose a general approach which takes into account explicitly the influence of spatial correlations on the time evolution of particles mean densities and allows for the analytical analysis. In terms of this approach we recover some of known results concerning the time evolution of particles mean densities and establish several new ones.

P.Argyrakis, S.F.Burlatsky, E.Clement, G.Oshanin (4) __INSTITUTION_4__ Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece; (2) LSR Technologies, Inc., Acton, MA USA; (3) LAOMC, University of Paris VI, France, (4) LPTL, University of Paris VI, France) · 2000