Electrochemical STM observation of new structures of CO adsorbed on a Pt(111) electrode surface
Changhoon Jung1, Bonseong Ku, Jandee Kim
1Department of Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 305-764, South Korea.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 17, 2006
Abstract:
Presented are two newly observed adstructures of adsorbed CO onto Pt(111), (2 x 2)-3CO-beta and (2 x 2)-4CO, observed during the structural evolution from the well-known (2 x 2)-3CO-alpha structure to the (square root 19 x square root 19)-13CO structure.
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