Improving the design of catalytic materials for clean energy production requires a better understanding of their electronic properties, which remains experimentally challenging. Researchers now quantify the number of electrons transferred from metal nanoparticles to an oxide support as a function of particle size.
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James, T., Campbell, C. Catalysis: Quantifying charge transfer. Nat Energy 1, 16002 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.2
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