Title: regular surface
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - regular surface
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.14082
Status: current

Definition
Perfect surface of a solid without heterogeneity or defect.

Note
Rigorously speaking, this is a theoretical notion. In practice, however, this term is used to refer to local space regions of real relaxed and reconstructed surfaces if the perturbations caused by the nearest adjacent (surface) defects can be neglected.

Source
- PAC, 2011, 83, 931. 'Glossary of terms used in photocatalysis and radiation catalysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 986 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-09-09-36)

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Citation: Citation: 'regular surface' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14082
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