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SUBMITTER: Halwidl D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4817238 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Halwidl Daniel D Stöger Bernhard B Mayr-Schmölzer Wernfried W Pavelec Jiri J Fobes David D Peng Jin J Mao Zhiqiang Z Parkinson Gareth S GS Schmid Michael M Mittendorfer Florian F Redinger Josef J Diebold Ulrike U
Nature materials 20151221 4
Although perovskite oxides hold promise in applications ranging from solid oxide fuel cells to catalysts, their surface chemistry is poorly understood at the molecular level. Here we follow the formation of the first monolayer of water at the (001) surfaces of Sr(n+1)Ru(n)O3(n+1) (n = 1, 2) using low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and density functional theory. These layered perovskites cleave between neighbouring SrO planes, yielding almost ideal, ...[more]