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Cover Image, Volume 114, Issue 23
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.24806
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , decomposition , key (lock) , computer science , volume (thermodynamics) , citation , chemistry , nanotechnology , physics , world wide web , materials science , thermodynamics , engineering , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , computer security
Nano controlled deposits with metal organic precursor molecules play a key role in numerous fields such as microelectronics or catalysis. Understanding the mechanism of interaction and decomposition of these precursors over a metallic surface is thus a key issue. On page 1630 (DOI: 10.1002/qua.24744 ), Céline Dupont, Xiaowen Wan, Mikhail Petukhov, and Peter Kröger systematically investigate the interaction of the fragments coming from Mo(CO) 6 with a copper surface. Among them, the first Mo(CO) 5 fragment presents a high adsorption energy, allowing the activation of the whole decomposition process.