Advantage: Water—Researchers resolve key question on titanium oxide, water interactions
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 15:51
in Physics & Chemistry
When a molecule of water comes in for a landing on the common catalyst titanium oxide, it sometimes breaks up and forms a pair of molecule fragments known as hydroxyls. But scientists had not been able to show how often the breakup happened. Now, researchers have determined that water is only slightly more likely to stay in one piece as it binds to the catalyst surface than it is to form the hydroxyl pairs.