Japanese scientists have reported their work on the interactions of gold species on titania in a Faraday Discussions Accepted Manuscript. They found that the Au-anion interaction is mainly responsible for stabilising Au atoms on a thiol modified titania surface, while only Au55 clusters were found on a bare titania surface.
This is important in developing an understanding of how such systems behave during catalytic reactions, and suggests that surface modification may be a useful method for controlling the Au species on titania.
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Read this hot discussion paper in full:
Preparation and structure of a single Au atom on the TiO2(110) surface: Control of the Au-metal oxide surface interaction
Kiyotaka Asakura, Satoru Takakusagi, Hiroko Ariga, Wang-Jae Chun, Shushi Suzuki, Yuichiro Koike, Hiromitsu Uehara, Kotaro Miyazaki and Yasuhiro Iwasawa
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20131C
