Controlling the catalytic bond-breaking selectivity of Ni surfaces by step blocking

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-162

  Vang, Ronnie T ^a   Honkala, Karoliina ^b   Dahl, Søren ^c   Vestergaard, Ebbe K ^a   Schnadt, Joachim ^a   Lægsgaard, Erik ^a   Clausen, Bjerne S ^c   Nørskov, Jens K ^b   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c HALDOR TOPSØE A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CHEMICAL BONDS; ETHYLENE; NICKEL; RUTHENIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SILVER ALLOYS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BOND-BREAKING SELECTIVITY; CATALYTIC SURFACES; NANOSCALE DESIGN; STEP BLOCKING;

CATALYST SELECTIVITY;

EID: 13144306103     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1311     Document Type: Article

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