The researchers placed individual cobalt, rhodium, and iridium atoms on a 1-atom-thick manganese surface to create a magnetically well-defined surface and studied the migration behavior of adatoms ...

image: A team of researchers have identified the structure of iridium single atom catalysts for carbon monoxide oxidation. Left to right, Jiamin Wang, Yubing Lu, Ayman Karim, and Hongliang Xin ...

Conducted at temperatures near absolute zero (four Kelvin), their experiment involved placing individual atoms, such as cobalt, rhodium, and iridium, onto a single atomic layer of manganese that ...