«The presence of nitrogen and carbon atoms in the vicinity of the catalytic
molybdenum center facilitates the production of hydrogen from water,» Muckerman said.
Numerous x-ray studies, along with isolation and characterization of six proposed intermediates in the catalytic reaction under noncatalytic conditions, suggest that N2 was reduced at a sterically protected, single
molybdenum center that cycled from Mo (III) through Mo (VI) states.
Not exact matches
But in crystals of an iron -
molybdenum oxide, a team led by Kei - Ichiro Kobayashi at the Joint Research
Center for Atom Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, saw a 10 % drop in resistance when they placed the material in a strong magnetic field, considerably more than the one seen in comparable materials.
A joined team of experimentalists and theorists from the International
Center for Young Scientists, International
Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics and Surface Physics and Structure Unit of the National Institute for Materials Science, National University of Science and Technology «MISiS» (Moscow, Russia), Rice University (USA) and University of Jyväskylä (Finland) led by Daiming Tang and Dmitri Golberg for the first time succeeded in complete understanding of physics, kinetics and energetics behind the regarded «Scotch - tape» technique using
molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) atomic layers as a model material.