A Lone Rhodium Atom Snaps Up Hydrogen Like a Trap
Chemistry has two worlds: in one, the catalyst is a solid particle and the reaction happens on its surface; in the other, it's a dissolved molecule where everything occurs around a single metal center. These worlds rarely meet. But in a new study, they collide.
The researchers took iron oxide, a black powder used in magnetic tapes, and scattered single rhodium atoms across its surface.