Dissociation of water over Ti-decorated C60

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Yingchun ^a,b   Huang, Liping ^c   Gubbins, Keith E ^a,d   Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno ^d,e  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION BARRIERS; CATALYTIC EFFECTS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HYDROGEN MOLECULE; TI ATOMS; WATER DISSOCIATION; WATER MOLECULE; WATER SPLITTING;

CATALYSTS; DISSOCIATION; HYDROGEN;

MOLECULES;

EID: 77956306875     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3469813     Document Type: Article

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