Interface controlled oxidation states in layered cobalt oxide nanoislands on gold

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2445-2453

  Walton, Alex S ^a   Fester, Jakob ^a   Bajdich, Michal ^b   Arman, Mohammad A ^c   Osiecki, Jacek ^c   Knudsen, Jan ^c   Vojvodic, Aleksandra ^b   Lauritsen, Jeppe V ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cobalt oxide; electrocatalysis; nanocatalysis; reducible metal oxides; two dimensional materials; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COBALT METALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; GOLD; INTERFACE STATES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

COBALT OXIDES; METAL OXIDES; NANOCATALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; WATER SPLITTING;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84925600186     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00158     Document Type: Article

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