Kinetics of surface roughening via pit growth during the oxidation of the basal plane of graphite. II. Theory and simulation

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Abstract
Analytical expressions for the description of the oxidation kinetics of the basal planes of the graphitesurface are proposed. They are developed from an ansatz that extends former theories of phase transformations by nucleation and growth to multilayer systems in which the kinetics of transformation in subsequent layers is recurrently related. The results from analytical theory are compared with computer simulations obtained for an adequate model. Correspondence of these results to the structural changes observed in the oxidation of the graphitesurface, as revealed by scanning tunneling microscopy, is discussed.

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