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Chemisorption of oxygen and hydrogen atoms onto a 13 atom aluminum cluster is investigated theoretically. Oxygen atoms are found to remain on the outside of the cluster, and at low coverage, to expand the Al–Al bond length by 0.42 bohr. Hydrogen atoms penetrate into the cluster resulting in a sizeable, 0.57 bohr expansion at high coverage. The difference between chemisorption on aluminum and beryllium clusters is discussed.
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