Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Reactivity mapping of nanoscale defect chemistry under electrochemical reaction conditions

  • Jonas H. K. Pfisterer,
  • Masoud Baghernejad,
  • Giovanni Giuzio,
  • Katrin F. Domke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13692-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Identifying reacting species locally with nanometer precision is a major challenge in electrochemical surface science. Using operando Raman nanoscopy, authors image the reversible, concurrent formation of nanometer-spatially separated Au2O3 and Au2O species during Au nanodefect oxidation.