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Science 11 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5383, pp. 1647 - 1650
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5383.1647
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Onset of Catalytic Activity of Gold Clusters on Titania with the Appearance of Nonmetallic Properties

M. Valden, * X. Lai, D. W. Goodman dagger

Gold clusters ranging in diameter from 1 to 6 nanometers have been prepared on single crystalline surfaces of titania in ultrahigh vacuum to investigate the unusual size dependence of the low-temperature catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide. Scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) and elevated pressure reaction kinetics measurements show that the structure sensitivity of this reaction on gold clusters supported on titania is related to a quantum size effect with respect to the thickness of the gold islands; islands with two layers of gold are most effective for catalyzing the oxidation of carbon monoxide. These results suggest that supported clusters, in general, may have unusual catalytic properties as one dimension of the cluster becomes smaller than three atomic spacings.

Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77842-3012, USA.
*   Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, FIN 33101, Finland.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed: E-mail: goodman{at}chemvx.tamu.edu

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