State-selective dissociation of a single water molecule on an ultrathin MgO film

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 442-447

  Shin, Hyung Joon ^a,b   Jung, Jaehoon ^a,b   Motobayashi, Kenta ^a,b   Yanagisawa, Susumu ^c   Morikawa, Yoshitada ^c   Kim, Yousoo ^a   Kawai, Maki ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; MAGNESIA; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ITS APPLICATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR PROCESS; REACTION PATHS; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; STATE SELECTIVE; WATER MOLECULE;

MOLECULES;

EID: 77951621823     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2740     Document Type: Article

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