Real time determination of the electronic structure of unstable reaction intermediates during Au2O3 reduction

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-84

  Szlachetko, Jakub ^a,b   Sá, Jacinto ^a,c   Nachtegaal, Maarten ^a   Hartfelder, Urs ^a,d   Dousse, Jean Claude ^e   Hoszowska, Joanna ^e   Abreu Fernandes, Daniel Luis ^f   Shi, Hongqing ^g   Stampfl, Catherine ^g  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

DFT calculations; short lived Au2O intermediate; time resolved RIXS; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DFT CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; INTERMEDIATE SPECIE; RESONANT INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING; SHORT-LIVED AU2O INTERMEDIATE; TEMPERATURE-PROGRAMMED REDUCTION; TIME-RESOLVED;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LATTICE CONSTANTS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

REDUCTION;

EID: 84891815123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz402309s     Document Type: Article

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