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The review presents an overview of studies in the surface science of oxide and related surfaces with an emphasis of the studies performed in the authors’ group. Novel instruments and technique developments, as well as their applications are reported, in an attempt to cover studies on model systems of increasing complexity, including some of the key ingredients of an industrially applied heterogeneous catalyst and its fabrication. The review is intended to demonstrate the power of model studies in understanding heterogeneous catalysis at the atomic level. The studies include those on supported nano-particles, both, prepared in vacuum and from solution, interaction of surfaces and the underlying bulk with molecules from the gas phase, strong metal support interaction, as well as the first attempt to include studies on reactions in confined spaces.
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This work was supported by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) (05KS4WWB/4), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through CRC 1109 (“Molecular Insight into Metaloxide/Water Interfaces”), CRC 546 (“Structure and Reactivity of Transition Metal Oxides”), the DFG-NSFC joint project (Fr554/18-1, 21761132005), and Cluster of Excellence “UniCat”, as well as the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and TURBOMOLE GmbH. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (CRYVISIL-REP-669179). We would like to thank all former and present postdoctoral associates as well as PhD students involved in the projects mentioned. In particular we thank Professor Weixin Huang/USTC for discussions. We thank the BESSY II crew for their support and the Helmholtz-Center Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB) for the allocation of beamtime.
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Freund, HJ., Heyde, M., Kuhlenbeck, H. et al. Chapter model systems in heterogeneous catalysis at the atomic level: a personal view. Sci. China Chem. 63, 426–447 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-019-9671-0
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