Catalytically highly active top gold atom on palladium nanocluster

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-52

  Zhang, Haijun ^a,b   Watanabe, Tatsuya ^a   Okumura, Mitsutaka ^b,c   Haruta, Masatake ^b,d   Toshima, Naoki ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; GOLD; NANOCLUSTERS; PALLADIUM;

AU CATALYSTS; AU NANOCLUSTERS; BIMETALLIC NANOCLUSTERS; COLLOIDAL CATALYSTS; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HIGH ACTIVITY; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; PALLADIUM NANOCLUSTERS;

CATALYST SUPPORTS;

EID: 83655163767     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3143     Document Type: Article

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