Cerium Oxide Nanoclusters on Graphene/Ru(0001): Intercalation of Oxygen via Spillover

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8617-8626

  Novotny, Zbynek ^a   Netzer, Falko P ^b   Dohnálek, Zdenek ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Auger electron spectroscopy; ceria; graphene etching; graphene on Ru; oxide cluster; oxygen intercalation; scanning tunneling microscopy; spillover

Indexed keywords

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; AUGERS; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSTS; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ETCHING; MONOLAYERS; NANOCLUSTERS; OXIDES; OXYGEN; POINT DEFECTS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

CATALYTIC MATERIALS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; OXIDE CLUSTERS; OXIDIZING CONDITIONS; OXYGEN INTERACTION; OXYGEN INTERCALATION; SPILLOVER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84940054608     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03987     Document Type: Article

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