CO dissociation and CO+O reactions on a nanosized iron cluster

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 660-670

  Lanzani, Giorgio ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^b   Laasonen, Kari ^a   Kauppinen, Esko I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Density functional theory (DFT); Mechanism; Nanoparticle; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350061367     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9069-9     Document Type: Article

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