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SUBMITTER: McEwen JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2651324 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McEwen Jean-Sabin JS Gaspard Pierre P de Bocarmé Thierry Visart TV Kruse Norbert N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090217 9
Field ion microscopy combined with video techniques and chemical probing reveals the existence of catalytic oscillatory patterns at the nanoscale. This is the case when a rhodium nanosized crystal--conditioned as a field emitter tip--is exposed to hydrogen and oxygen. Here, we show that these nonequilibrium oscillatory patterns find their origin in the different catalytic properties of all of the nanofacets that are simultaneously exposed at the tip's surface. These results suggest that the unde ...[more]