{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chen X"],"funding":["China Postdoctoral Science Foundation","National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["3262-3267"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5490425"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The electronic interaction of a catalyst and its support is of vital importance to its catalytic performance. However, it is still a great challenge to directly probe the interaction due to the lack of well-defined models and efficient technical means. In this study, we report that pod-like carbon nanotubes with encapsulated iron particles (Pod-Fe) and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) can be used as an ideal model and technique to study the electronic interaction between carbon shells and iron particles. The chemical imaging and spectroscopy of Pod-Fe by STXM show that the local electronic structures at C K-edge near edge (π*) of carbon shells can be significantly modified by the encapsulated iron particles, which promotes the adsorption of oxygen-containing species, and there"],"journal":["Chemical science"],"pubmed_title":["Visualizing electronic interactions between iron and carbon by X-ray chemical imaging and spectroscopy."],"pmcid":["PMC5490425"],"funding_grant_id":["2014M551131","21321002","21303191"],"pubmed_authors":["Pan X","Deng D","Yu L","Heine T","Hu Y","Xiao J","Bao X","Chen X","Wang J","Zhou J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Visualizing electronic interactions between iron and carbon by X-ray chemical imaging and spectroscopy.","description":"The electronic interaction of a catalyst and its support is of vital importance to its catalytic performance. However, it is still a great challenge to directly probe the interaction due to the lack of well-defined models and efficient technical means. In this study, we report that pod-like carbon nanotubes with encapsulated iron particles (Pod-Fe) and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) can be used as an ideal model and technique to study the electronic interaction between carbon shells and iron particles. The chemical imaging and spectroscopy of Pod-Fe by STXM show that the local electronic structures at C K-edge near edge (π*) of carbon shells can be significantly modified by the encapsulated iron particles, which promotes the adsorption of oxygen-containing species, and there","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015 May","modification":"2025-04-19T13:35:30.827Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:48:51Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5490425","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28706694"],"doi":["10.1039/c5sc00353a"]}}