Creating single-atom Pt-ceria catalysts by surface step decoration

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dvořák, Filip ^a   Camellone, Matteo Farnesi ^b   Tovt, Andrii ^a   Tran, Nguyen Dung ^b,c   Negreiros, Fabio R ^b,d   Vorokhta, Mykhailo ^a   Skála, Tomáš ^a   Matolínová, Iva ^a   Mysliveček, Josef ^a   Matolín, Vladimír ^a   Fabris, Stefano ^b,c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM OXIDE; ION; OXYGEN; PLATINUM;

ADSORPTION; CATALYST; ION; OXYGEN; PRECIOUS METAL; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CATALYST; DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISPERSION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84959422537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10801     Document Type: Article

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