Nature Communications (May 2019)

Direct dioxygen evolution in collisions of carbon dioxide with surfaces

  • Yunxi Yao,
  • Philip Shushkov,
  • Thomas F. Miller,
  • Konstantinos P. Giapis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10342-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Carbon dioxide can dissociate via different pathways depending on the amount of available energy. Here the authors investigate carbon dioxide collisions with metal substrates and observe a pathway producing molecular oxygen, which might explain the presence of oxygen in abiotic environments.