«In essence,» said co-author Darren W. Johnson, a professor of chemistry, «we can prepare one type of nanoscale cluster compound, and then step - by - step substitute out
the individual metal atoms to make new clusters that can not be made by direct methods.
Not exact matches
On this basis, it can be concluded which molecules cause reduction, when competing adsorption takes place, i.e. if several substances compete for adsorption on catalytic converters, and how
individual molecules coordinate on the
metal atom.
The process described in the paper represents a new approach to transmetalation, in which
individual atoms of one
metal complex — a cluster in this case — are individually substituted in water.
Shortly after, using a low - temperature scanning tunneling microscope, Eigler began to investigate the properties of
individual atoms deposited on a
metal surface.
«Single
atoms prefer to produce CO, rather than performing the competing HER, because the surface of a bulk
metal is very different from
individual atoms,» says Stavitski.