Experiments confirm that structural defects at the periphery are key in catalyst function
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 13:11
in Physics & Chemistry
Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, a team of researchers working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel confirmed with a unique infrared probe.