Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11(19), p. 7990-7995, 2017
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07530d
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The surface heterogeneity of amorphous silica (aSiO2) has been probed using coverage dependent temperature programmed desorption (TPD) of a simple probe molecule, carbon monoxide (CO), and is used to explain the inhomogeneous broadening of the CO stretching vibration in the infrared.