Mavrikakis, assistant scientist Guowen Peng and Ph.D. student Carrie Farberow, along with researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and Lund University in Sweden, investigated
how hydroxyls affect water molecules around them, and how that differs from water molecules contacting a pristine metal oxide surface.
The team succeeded by using deuteration, or the substitution of deuterium atoms for hydrogen atoms, to study
how hydroxyl is produced.
Not exact matches
During the experiments and computational study, the researchers looked at
how water, surface
hydroxyls and the metal - support interface interacted during carbon monoxide oxidation over a gold - titania catalyst.