Abstract

We report a study of the adsorption and reaction of CO on a gold nanotip in high electrostatic fields. Field ion microscopy is used to investigate the emergence of a Au-carbonyl wave that is made visible with oxygen as the imaging gas. We set up a simple kinetic model that reproduces the adsorption wave and confirms that the presence of oxygen merely serves as an imaging gas and does not lead to field-induced oxidation of CO.

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