Publication Date:
2013-08-31
Description:
Oxygen (O2) adsorbed on metal oxides is important in catalytic oxidation reactions, chemical sensing, and photocatalysis. Strong adsorption requires transfer of negative charge from oxygen vacancies (V(O)s) or dopants, for example. With scanning tunneling microscopy, we observed, transformed, and, in conjunction with theory, identified the nature of O2 molecules on the (101) surface of anatase (titanium oxide, TiO2) doped with niobium. V(O)s reside exclusively in the bulk, but we pull them to the surface with a strongly negatively charged scanning tunneling microscope tip. O2 adsorbed as superoxo (O2(-)) at fivefold-coordinated Ti sites was transformed to peroxo (O2(2-)) and, via reaction with a VO, placed into an anion surface lattice site as an (O2)O species. This so-called bridging dimer also formed when O2 directly reacted with V(O)s at or below the surface.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Setvin, Martin -- Aschauer, Ulrich -- Scheiber, Philipp -- Li, Ye-Fei -- Hou, Weiyi -- Schmid, Michael -- Selloni, Annabella -- Diebold, Ulrike -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Aug 30;341(6149):988-91. doi: 10.1126/science.1239879.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23990556" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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