Adsorption of water at the SrO surface of ruthenates

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 450-455

  Halwidl, Daniel ^a   Stöger, Bernhard ^a   Mayr Schmölzer, Wernfried ^a   Pavelec, Jiri ^a   Fobes, David ^b   Peng, Jin ^b   Mao, Zhiqiang ^b   Parkinson, Gareth S ^a   Schmid, Michael ^a   Mittendorfer, Florian ^a   Redinger, Josef ^a   Diebold, Ulrike ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIMERS; FUEL CELLS; PEROVSKITE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE;

ADSORPTION OF WATER; CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS; DISSOCIATED WATERS; LAYERED PEROVSKITE; MOLECULAR LEVELS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CHAINS; PERCOLATING NETWORKS; PEROVSKITE OXIDES;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84951325791     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4512     Document Type: Article

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