Oxidation of magnesia-supported Pd-clusters leads to the ultimate limit of epitaxy with a catalytic function

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-47

  Huber, Bernd ^a,b   Koskinen, Pekka ^b   Häkkinen, Hannu ^c   Moseler, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; COBALT; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM ALLOYS; SENSORS;

ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; MODEL CATALYSTS; OXYGEN RESERVOIRS; TRANSITION-METAL CLUSTERS;

OXIDATION;

MAGNESIUM OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; PALLADIUM; PALLADIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GAS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CATALYSIS; GASES; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALLADIUM;

EID: 30044433365     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1533     Document Type: Article

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