Water clustering on nanostructured iron oxide films

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Merte, Lindsay R ^a,b   Bechstein, Ralf ^a,d   Peng, Guowen ^c   Rieboldt, Felix ^a   Farberow, Carrie A ^c   Zeuthen, Helene ^a   Knudsen, Jan ^a,b   Lægsgaard, Erik ^a   Wendt, Stefan ^a   Mavrikakis, Manos ^c   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL GROUP; IRON OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; WATER;

ADHESION; AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; CHEMICAL BONDING; FILM; IRON OXIDE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; DESORPTION; FILM; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYDROXYLATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NANOANALYSIS; PERIODICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84903691820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5193     Document Type: Article

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