In the dry reforming of methane in an electric field, the reaction between CH4 molecules and surface oxygen was promoted at the interface between Pt and CeO2.

H atom adsorption over perovskite (Sr1−xBaxZrO3) was governed by local lattice distortion, which can be tuned by the A-site cation-doping ratio.

Low-cost carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies have been studied widely. Among such technologies, the control of CO2 adsorption by application of an electric field to solid materials has been shown...

Quantum annealing has been used to predict molecular adsorption on solid surfaces. Evaluation of adsorption, which takes place in all solid surface reactions, is a crucially important subject for study in various fields. However, predicting the most stable coordination by theoretical calculations is challenging for multimolecular adsorption because there are numerous candidates. This report presents a novel method for quick adsorption coordination searches using the quantum annealing principle without combinatorial explosion. This method exhibited much faster search and more stable molecular arrangement findings than conventional methods did, particularly in a high coverage region. We were able to complete a configurational prediction of the adsorption of 16 molecules in 2286 s (including 2154 s for preparation, only required once), whereas previously it has taken 38 601 s. This approach accelerates the tuning of adsorption behavior, especially in composite materials and large-scale modeling, which possess more combinations of molecular configurations.