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SUBMITTER: Wenzel S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11359969 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wenzel Sabine S Boden Dajo D Groot Irene M N IMN
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 20240918 36
Although gold-based catalysts are promising candidates for selective low-temperature CO oxidation, the reaction mechanism is not fully understood. On a Au(111) model catalyst, we observe the formation of gold oxide islands under exposure to atmospheric pressures of oxygen or CO oxidation reaction conditions in an <i>in situ</i> scanning tunneling microscope. The gold oxide formation is interpreted in line with the water-enabled dissociation of O<sub>2</sub> on the step edges of Au(111). Contamin ...[more]