The role of hydroxyl groups in low temperature carbon monoxide oxidation.
Using the unique ability of inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy to quantify surface hydroxyls, it is shown that two hydroxyls are essential for the low temperature oxidation of CO over a model palladium catalyst.
ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK OX11 0QX. stewart.parker@stfc.ac.uk
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