Local electronic structure and density of edge and facet atoms at Rh nanoclusters self-assembled on a graphene template

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3034-3043

  Cavallin, Alberto ^a,b   Pozzo, Monica ^c   Africh, Cristina ^d   Baraldi, Alessandro ^a,d   Vesselli, Erik ^a,d   Dri, Carlo ^d   Comelli, Giovanni ^a,d   Larciprete, Rosanna ^e   Lacovig, Paolo ^f   Lizzit, Silvano ^f   Alfè, Dario ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

catalysis; core level photoelectron spectroscopy; density functional theory; graphene; nanoclusters; rhodium; scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

CORE ELECTRON BINDING ENERGIES; CORE-LEVEL PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; DEGREE OF STRUCTURAL ORDER; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; HIGH-ENERGY RESOLUTION; INTER-ATOMIC DISTANCES; LOCAL ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES; NANOFACETS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SURFACE ATOMS;

ATOMS; CATALYSIS; CORE LEVELS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RHODIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

NANOCLUSTERS;

EID: 84860382319     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300651s     Document Type: Article

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