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SUBMITTER: Zhong JQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7830109 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhong Jian-Qiang JQ Shaikhutdinov Shamil S Roldan Cuenya Beatriz B
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces 20210106 2
We studied the initial stages of Ga interaction with the Cu(001) surface and environment-induced surface transformations in an attempt to elucidate the surface chemistry of the Cu-Ga catalysts recently proposed for CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation to methanol. The results show that Ga readily intermixes with Cu upon deposition in vacuum. However, even traces of oxygen in the gas ambient cause Ga oxidation and the formation of two-dimensional ("monolayer") Ga oxide islands uniformly covering the Cu s ...[more]