Direct observation of a long-lived single-atom catalyst chiseling atomic structures in graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 450-455

  Wang, Wei Li ^a   Santos, Elton J G ^a   Jiang, Bin ^b   Cubuk, Ekin Dogus ^a   Ophus, Colin ^c   Centeno, Alba ^d   Pesquera, Amaia ^d   Zurutuza, Amaia ^d   Ciston, Jim ^c   Westervelt, Robert ^a   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GRAPHENEA   (Spain)

Author keywords

graphene; HRTEM; molecular devices; Single atom catalyst

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; PROCEDURES; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOPARTICLES; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84894121205     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403327u     Document Type: Article

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