Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Seminar Tuesday, 25/03/2014 10:00

Speakers: Josef Mysliveček (FZÚ AV ČR)
Place: Fyzikální ústav AVČR, Cukrovarnická 10, Praha 6, knihovna, budova A, 1.p.
Presented in English
Organisers: Department of Thin Films and Nanostructures

Cerium oxide – ceria – is a material broadly used as an active catalyst support. In order to disentangle various contributions to its chemical activity we prepare thin films of ceria on Cu(111) with varying but precisely controlled morphology and stoichiometry and study how the changes of the morphology and stoichiometry influence the activity of ceria in chemical reactions with simple molecules.