Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 49(50), p. 6537-6539, 2014
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc01680g
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Using scanning tunnelling microscopy, we have visualized the segregation of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, the two reactants in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, on cobalt nanoparticles at catalytically relevant coverages. Density functional theory was used to interrogate the relevant energetics.